Festival of the Year's End

Holy to Rai’lo and Mern’tsat, this is the last day of the year and a solemn occasion. People are encouraged to set right any wrongs they were responsible for during the previous year, and to take count of their sins and meditate upon them, praying for forgiveness. One common practice is to use colored bits of ribbon or some similar token to represent the sins and wrongdoings of the past year. After meditating upon them and praying for forgiveness, they are tied to a dead branch and burnt at sunset. The wrongs of the old year are thus “burned away” in effigy, and pass away with the smoke from the fire.