Ormazd Grul Talshran

Ormazd Grul Talshran was a twice-yearly feast under the Orian calendar during which specific foods are prepared. Though the holiday was nationally celebrated to some extent, the most extravagant feasts and celebrations were focused around the Orian capital, and the highest of nobility could expect to eat with the royal family themselves during Ormazd Grul Talshran. Away from the capital, Ormazd Grul Talshran was considered a time for unity among the castes as they all celebrated Orian nationality.
==Name Meaning and History==
The name "Ormazd Grul Talshran" literally means "The Sun-Faith Feast" and is thought to have started as a celebration for the end of an eclipse in ancient times. Prior to understanding of astronomy, the people of Ores -- the nation of the sun -- feared the demise of the sun and that it would never return from this sudden period of darkness during the day. They fervently prayed, and the sun returned. The queen at the time issued a proclamation for all of Ores to celebrate how their faith had saved the sun from being devoured by darkness.
In time, the feast came to occur at the start of each half of the Orian calendar -- once in Dlenfal and once in Dlenrald -- because of how the timing coincided with an orbit around the sun. The feast celebrated that the sun still remained and was also a prayer that it would remain for another year.
==Food==
Ormazd Grul Talshran-specific foods were generally focused around the sun in some manner; various cakes and breads would be made in the shape of a sun and would often have some kind of brightly-colored fruit filling. Meats would be glazed with a light lemon sauce, and particular wines -- which were most often sweet -- solely for the feast would be orange, yellow, red, or white in hue. Even the manner in which the food was displayed would be sun shaped with the largest of meals at the center of the table and everything else extending out like rays of the sun. Essentially, all prepared food was required to call back to the sun in some way.
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