jterlecki wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 8:03 pm
Well today is Canada Day and this weekend is 4th of July. Could you tell us some of the holidays that Loroi celebrate and maybe a quick how they are celebrated/observed?
jterlecki wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 2:06 am
GeoModder wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 9:50 pm
jterlecki wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 8:03 pm
Well today is Canada Day and this weekend is 4th of July. Could you tell us some of the holidays that Loroi celebrate and maybe a quick how they are celebrated/observed?
Its a good chance "Semoset" is the most noteworthy one in the Deinar star system.
According to Insider, a month-long celebration every 28 years of the passing of the Semoset 'comet' through the inner system.
Has it occured since the start of the war (25y ago, if I am not mistaken)? Would be interesting if Alex showed up at the start of the official holidays or at the apogee / perihilion of the comet. Just some omens stuff for more superstitious people.
Semoset is a month-long festival of feasts and athletic competitions celebrating the passage of Semoset, a super-comet that passes every 28 years. It did occur during the war in 2144, which is when the Loroi launched their large offensive (the Semoset Offensive).
Truce is a Taben harvest festival, celebrating the yearly algal bloom and the feeding frenzy of fishing and whaling that takes advantage of it. After the bloom disperses, there is a day of feasts and a regatta, celebrating the traditional "truce" in which the Beleri and Amenal navies agreed not to attack each other during the harvest.
Deinar and Perrein don't have much in the way of seasons, so they don't have traditional harvest, midwinter or solstice festivals.
Aurora is an annual festival on Deinar when the planet experiences a yearly maximum of meteor activity (as it passes through the path of Semoset's orbit, though the primitive Loroi on Deinar didn't know this until long after the tradition began). The meteors appear to originate from the direction of the Pleiades, which is prominent in the Deinar night sky. On the night of the maximum, there is a celebration in which people go out into the woods and camp out overnight (in Arran they go into the desert) and recount the long epic cycle of the thirteen sisters of Aurora. The following day is traditionally a “day off” in which people recover from the all-night festivities.
Windfury is a sort of "corporate holiday" (like Valentines Day, it was promoted by companies wishing to encourage people to buy things) that originated on Maia. It has a tenuous connection to a mythical figure, but it's essentially a Loroi Mother's Day. Mothers spend the day with their daughters, who buy gifts for her.
Perrein's city-states have distinct and divergent cultures. One of the few holidays with planet-wide observance is the festival of
Whitecap, which, perhaps ironically, commemorates the atomic holocaust on pre-contact Perrein, and has become connected with the myth of Whitecap, a benevolent witch. People dress up in scary skeleton costumes or as Whitecap herself, who leaves macabre gifts for children in exchange for the ritual offerings the children leave for her.