According to the folk calendar - Agey Inesey

According to the folk calendar, December 29 (December 16, old style) is the day of Ageya Ineseus This date originates from the church day of honoring the memory of the prophet Haggai, who lived in the 4th century BC As one of the 12 prophets of the Old Testament, Haggai lived during the reign of King Darius Hystaps, who stopped the construction of the Temple of Jerusalem in 500 BC e After the change of power, the new king Zerubbabel and the high priest of those times, Jesus, made no attempts to revive the construction of the temple When Haggai wrote a book of prophecy aimed at showing the people the inaction of the Jewish government, construction resumed Among the people, Agea Ineseus was considered the patron saint of the human soul People believed that she was separated from human flesh and was able to wander in sleep or after death This is precisely what is associated with the tradition of opening doors and windows in houses where a person died so that his soul could find a way out of the home A towel tied to the gate served to wipe away her farewell tears, and the custom of setting the table on memorial days made it possible for the soul to be satisfied with the vapors of food On Ageev day they prayed to the holy prophet for deceased friends and relatives Those who had recently given birth to a child should light a candle in the temple for the health of the newborn In prayer they turned to Haggai with a request to take care of the child’s soul and guide it along the righteous path Ageev's day was nicknamed Inesei (to sow frost) because on this day the future weather was determined by frost If the pillars and branches of the trees were covered with frost, then the New Year holidays were to be expected to be warm But if Ageya was hit by frost, he held on until Epiphany Snowdrifts near the fences foreshadowed a bad harvest in the coming year In addition, this day determined the weather for April