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[silk_for_calde]

Earth's holidays are quite intriguing; I've been reading up on them since people began speaking of Halloween. We don't seem to share most of them, in my whorl, which... well. I find myself uncertain; I sometimes feel so sure that it is the Short-Sun Whorl, and other times, it seems impossible. No mentions of Pas, or his children; and yet

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[thejejunejesuit]

Do you have a feast of All Hallows in your whorl? Or something very like?

[silk_for_calde]

Not as such; we do dedicate special sacrifices to Echidna and Phaea in the autumn, giving thanks for the harvest, and certainly such people as can afford to feast do, at that time of year... Though this year has been difficult for Viron; there has been little rain. Some people on the Palatine hold masquerades, certainly, but they are not tied to any holiday. I almost wish we did, though; I like the idea of it, I think.

[ooc: fwiw i'm making this up totally. @_@ there's almost nooo info on the calendar/holidays of the Whorl that i can find, ahahaha.]

[thejejunejesuit]

O, I see. Do you celebrate those who have died? That is the root of this holiday, the feasts of All Souls--All Hallows, that is--and All Saints tomorrow.

[ooc: It's cool. Sorry to put you on the stop like that D:]

[silk_for_calde]

There is an idea, as I understand it, that on All Hallow's the dead come closer to the world of the living? It isn't so, for us; our celebrated dead are in Mainframe, to the East. When our loved ones die, we hold funerals, and their Final Sacrifices in the manteion, and certainly we recall them fondly, and often, but there is no holy day chosen for it. It is a wise celebration, though, I believe.
Nor have we saints, in the same fashion; though in many ways, from what little I've read, you might call some of our greater augurs and Theodidacts saints in your whorl... Which to be honest is a thought that unsettles me greatly.

[ooc: o, no worries! ♥ i just always feel bad passing my guesses off as canon, haha. ^^]

[thejejunejesuit]

That is the custom, yes, that the space between the world of the living and the world of the dead was less, that the veil that divides us was thin. That is why fortunetelling was supposed to work better that night: the spirits could speak more clearly.

Did they die and exist no more? Or does something of them remain?

Theodidacts--godspeakers--why do the words of his whorl so outdo my own? Why so unsettling?

[silk_for_calde]

Ah, I see. Divination in my whorl is different; we don't seek to commune with our dead, but with the gods.

When one dies, one's spirit ascends to the Aureate Path-- the spiritual parallel of the sun-- and travels along it Eastward, towards Mainframe, where they reside with the gods. We say the Peace of Pas to relieve them of any evils they have done, and to help them forgive such evils as have been done to them, so that their journey may be easier.

Though... I would be lying if I sought to claim there is no belief in ghosts, or in devils. Many augurs do not believe in them, but I must; I have no sufficient explanation for why a soul might linger in our whorl, though it does happen.