Holidays and Festivities: Solstice - The Fasting of the Saints
The festive seasons in Agrovia are always busy times. However, they do not celebrate these times in the typical way most other countries do. For Agrovia, four main holidays are to be celebrated. The two major holidays take place on the Solstice, the first being the Summer Solstice which begins on June 22 and ends on July 2. The Winter Solstice begins on December 21 and ends on January 1. Though it is the opposite for the Southern Hemisphere, where Agrovia is currently located, the continent carries over the climate it shared with its world. It spans the time of the Solstices and the middle and end or beginning of the new year. The holidays are named “The Fasting of the Saints” and are one celebrated by all, which begins and ends with a large festival and a great feast which pays homage to the past and current Saints and The Great Tree. It is common to gift wine or fruit in this season, significantly when it is grown or made by those who bless it.
The term fasting does not just mean giving up food throughout these festive times, but the abstinence or something someone holds dear to them, if it is something that will show repentance over these times. Romeo, for one, gives up smoking during this period, and so on. Mostly everyone in Agrovia partakes in this. Shidare, being the mother of the Saints, is often the centre of these holidays and is typically known to travel around Agrovia to give food to the poor or restore their dead crops and heal the sick. It is a busy time for her; however, she always makes it in time for pre- and post-holiday festivals. She is also covered head to toe in flowers during this period, as it is an old folk take that if one were to don her or one of her many statues throughout Agrovia, their wish would come true. Doves are also considered the symbol of these times and life, whereas the Jackal is the symbol of death. But that is for the other holidays. The ones we are here to speak of are the other times known during the Equinox.
It is a tradition to cover Shidare head to toe in flowers as well. Her, or the various statues of her throughout the continent.
The term fasting does not just mean giving up food throughout these festive times, but the abstinence or something someone holds dear to them, if it is something that will show repentance over these times. Romeo, for one, gives up smoking during this period, and so on. Mostly everyone in Agrovia partakes in this. Shidare, being the mother of the Saints, is often the centre of these holidays and is typically known to travel around Agrovia to give food to the poor or restore their dead crops and heal the sick. It is a busy time for her; however, she always makes it in time for pre- and post-holiday festivals. She is also covered head to toe in flowers during this period, as it is an old folk take that if one were to don her or one of her many statues throughout Agrovia, their wish would come true. Doves are also considered the symbol of these times and life, whereas the Jackal is the symbol of death. But that is for the other holidays. The ones we are here to speak of are the other times known during the Equinox.
It is a tradition to cover Shidare head to toe in flowers as well. Her, or the various statues of her throughout the continent.
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