Millet Festival

Millet Festival is the annual Valonian and Krin holiday for farmers to celebrate their successful harvest season, usually held around the end of summer.

In Luumism belief, it's to thanks Limm, the goddess of life, for giving bountiful harvest, and wishing for the better harvest next year.

The tradition is popular across many Valonian and Krin settlements such as Valone, Auqapus, Knirk, and Gigia.

History

Millets, a domestic grain around the central South Estisia, is one the main nutritions in the region. Due to warm climate and high yields, the people likely to celebrate themselves after hard work of farming.

The festival was first held at small town of Knirk to encourage farmers in around 10th centuries BVE, before spreading out to other parts of the region through conquest.

Execution

The millet festival is a public tradition, with feasts and plays held at the town center. Feasts feature various dishes of millet based such as loaves of millet bread, millet porridges and millet beer, with addition of fruits, vegetables, fishes and meats.

The festival depend on amount of crops each town yielded. If it is high, the festival might only held inside their own town. It's fine since the local governor has to gather their crops and send to the ruler.

As such, whenever drought, blight, or flood which cause millet field to be low yields or completely destroyed, the ruler have to help troubled towns by arranged festival by themselves. With larger feasts and plays, before distributing surplus to the town at the end of the event without any cost.

Observance

The festival last for a few days.

First Attend

Knirk, Empire of Kritus, 10th centuries BVE

Related Ethnicities

• Krin
• Valonian

Millet of Loss

In Gigia, the ritual is more specific. Other then the feast they also held the remembrance day as well, in memory of thousands who died in Gios' flood in 3 BVE.

Before the festival begin, the people of Gigia are gathering around the town's monument of losses, the giant cemetery of the flood, to mourn the victims whoever they were relative or not, then place a loaf of bread at their grave.