Wheel of the Year
These are the holidays celebrated on the solstices, equinoxes, and cross-quarter days which mark the changing of seasons. Two calendars relevant to the story reference these holidays, both the Midlands Calendar, which starts on Ostara, and the Druid Calendar, which starts on Utmu (Longnight). Both calendars use the same month/moon names, only the date of new year is different. Conveniently, the rotation of Tiansen, the primary moon, matches up exactly with the solar cycle, with twelve thirty-day moons, each broken into five six-day weeks.
Most of these celestial-centric holidays come from the druidic faith or earlier nature-worshipping settlers of Eikeozoa, taken and combined with the polytheistic pantheon and other deity-centric events to tell a different tale, and there are secular versions as well.
Longnight (1st of Ice Moon)
Winterwane (16th of Snow Moon)
New Year's Day (1st of Sprouting Grass Moon)
Beltane (16th of Flower Moon)
Litha (1st of Buck Moon)
Lughnasadh (16th of Sturgeon Moon)
Mabon (1st of Hunter's Moon)
Samhain (16th of Beaver Moon)
- Utmu, the festival of sun return for the druids
- Shannesina, battle of the sun god against the demons for the faithful (over a period of the six-day week preceding Longnight as well as the following week)
- Muziddon
- Tamossipa
Work very much in progress.
Placeholder names taken from the neopagan wheel of the year until I have time/brainpower to rename them for this setting.Celebrated in
Eikeozoa and beyond
Celebrated by
pretty much everyone (between religious traditions and secular events)
Since
time immemorial
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