Qirsyllvian Holidays & Festivals

Many unique holidays, festivals and celebrations are held throughout the year and vary by culture and/or calendar.
== Genjin Holidays & Festivals ==
=== Tenno Tanjobi ===
Tenno Tanjobi (天皇誕生日/Emperor's Birthday) is one of the most important holidays of Yamatai, celebrating the birth of the incumbent emperor. It changes when a new emperor takes the throne. Aside from prayers and well-wishes, in Teikyo it is the one time a year when the grounds and gardens of Imperial Palace are open to the general public, which – excluding staff, government officials, high ranking army officers, state guests and, of course, the imperial family – is normally forbidden to all outsiders.
Birthdays of imperial family members – specifically the immediate family of the current emperor; i.e siblings, spouse and children – are celebrated like holidays as well, albeit not as grandly as the tenno's.
It is celebrated only in Yamatai and its dependencies, with some observance in Hinomoto and Mizuho.
=== Ganjitsu ===
Ganjitsu (元日) is the term for Teikoku New Year, observed by all countries and dependencies of Genjin culture on Shogatsu 1, the first day of the year.
=== Koigokoro no Saiten ===
Koigokoro no Saiten (恋心の祭典/Festival of Love) is a favored time year for the Genjin people. It begins on the first Chuyobi in Aidzuki and continues for two weeks. An ancient tradition, the forerunner events of the festival predates the first tenno by at least eleven centuries.
Koigokoro no Saiten is a festival celebrating love and romance, where couples and lovers of all ages from all walks of life take to the streets and declare their undying love and affection for one another. Women traditionally give their significant other an omamori with their names sewn into it, while men give theirs a phoenix hairpin.
The highlight of the festival is on the penultimate night when the Inochi Hanryo Buyo (命伴侶舞踊/Soulmate dance) is held. Couples have their right wrists bound together with a red rope, called a Tamaneru (魂練る), as they dance. Popular superstition is that if a couple dances the whole night without the Tamaneru breaking or coming undone they will be together for eternity.
Koigokoro no Saiten is a favored time of year to get married as well, despite that most religious authorities discourage it. Because of the atmosphere the festival generates, a lot of children are normally conceived around this time of year as well.
=== Oyako Matsuri ===
Oyako Matsuri (親子まつり/Parent & Child Festival) is a festival in Genjin culture celebrating the relationships between parents and children. It's celebrated for five days beginning on the second Gakuyobi of Amatsuki.
The festival began in Genkyo faith. According to myth, the other kamigami didn't look kindly on Himiko abandoning her parents, Zenno & Iroke, to live in the mortal world and prevented her from reuniting with them when her mortal form died. It's celebrated at that time of year due to the belief that it's the one time of year when Himiko is allowed to be reunited with her parents.
=== Teikoku Saijitsu ===
Iwaitsuki 8 is Teikoku Saijitsu (帝国祭日/Empire Day), the anniversary of the foundation of the Empire of Yamatai celebrated as an official holiday. It is celebrated only in Yamatai and its dependencies.
=== Akegata-himekami's birthday ===
Akegata-himekami's birthday (明け方姫神の誕生日/Akegata-himekami no Tanjobi), is the celebrated birth-date of the divine progenitor of the imperial line. The traditional set date is Kodzuki 31, but knowledge of the actual date has been lost to time.
== Ikaj & Shaqiq Holidays & Festivals ==
=== Shahirazadi's birthday ===
Shahirazadi's birthday (عيد ميلاد شىحيراظاضئ/Eyd Milad Shahirazadi), celebrated on al-Wilada 17, is a Shaqiq holiday celebrating the birth of Shahirazadi, the founder of Al-Haqiqa.
==Septifidelic Holidays ==
=== Septisol ===
Septisol is a week-long Septifidelic holiday of Zedylric origin celebrating the first abjaksan. Observed starting on the third Colday of Rasanova and ends the following Zatforday, the date was chosen due to the lack of specific knowledge of the true date, aside for the knowledge it took place in the time of the year modern Rasanova takes up.
== Talmyri/Gnogtist Holidays & Festivals ==
=== Gnogtiar ===
A week-long Talmyri religious festival celebrating Gnogton, the king of the gods. It starts on the first Colday of Gopaco and ends the following Zatforday.
=== Unification Day ===
Holiday celebrating the conclusion of Alfrydion's War of Unification and the unification of Talmyrnia under a central government. Observed on Jesoran 8.
== Vampiric & Zodjist Holidays & Festivals ==
=== Galoween ===
Galoween, also known as All Galo's Eve, is a Zodjist religious festival holiday observed on Opesager 31, celebrating the Galo, the deities of the pantheon born from Zatazia, whom are believed to descend upon the physical world and walk among mortals for 31 days and renew the cosmic energy of the mortal world. It was once also referred to as Zodjist New Year, as the holiday predates the adoption of the Solramese calendar and once served as the New Year's Day of Zodjism.
For the entire month of Opesager, all of Ardeal is considered sacred ground and footwear of any kind is forbidden from being worn. Zodjists customarily carve the image of a face into a hallowed out pumpkin and carve a wish for the coming year into the back of the hollow interior.
During this period leading up to the holiday, all sorts of seasonal delicacies are served.
On the night of Opesager 31, a grand service is held in the pantheon in Argintar, Ardeal, where the Zodje, the monarch and hundreds of people pray together to the gods for a good year as the Galo return to the divine realm.
=== Festival of Iza ===
A week-long Zodjist paganistic religious festival to the Iza, the Goddess Animals, Spring, Nature, Flowers, Trees, & Vegetation. It is held during the last full week of Trisca, in the week preceding the last Zatforday of the month.
A young girl (typically between the ages of thirteen and twenty-five) is randomly chosen to represent Iza as her avatar in the mortal world. The girl is stripped of her clothes, coated with a special oil made from bloodflowers, and adorned with flowers in her hair. The girl spends several days in the branches of a holy tree like a throne, being presented with various offerings ranging from food to talismans. On the final day, she descends from the tree and rides a horse bareback to the temple of Iza to pray to her before she emerges from the temple, bathed and clothed, no longer a goddess.
== Wanzu Holidays & Festivals ==
=== Xinnian ===
Xinnian (新年/New Year's) is the New Year's festival in Wan culture. It begins three days prior to New Year's and continues until three days after.
== Others ==
=== Saint Nicolette's Day ===
Saint Nicolette's Day, is a festive holiday observed on Lassager 25. Unofficially founded by it's namesake, Saint Nicolette the Giver, and loved by people all over Geminos irrelevant of language, culture or religion. 
In the weeks leading up to the holiday, people decorate a species of spruce tree, known as St. Nicolette's tree, with ornaments of baubles, strings of holly, talismans dedicated to her, and topped with the Star of Septifidelity. Other well-observed traditions include, during the season before the holiday until New Year's, women of all walks of life, from the highest royalty to the lowliest commoner, dress in red robes and wear wreaths of holly in their hair, which St. Nicolette herself was famous for doing. Children also write letters to St. Nicolette telling her they had been good and asking for toys.
Legends say that every year on St. Nicolette's Eve (Lassager 24), St. Nicolette herself goes from home to home leaving gifts (usually toys) under the trees for well-behaved children. On St. Nicolette's Day itself, the children open their gifts from St. Nicolette and everybody exchanges gifts with each other.
=== Diliri ===
Duliri (独立日) is the word for Independence Day in Miaogui, celebrated on Zhishuai 9.
== Notes & Trivia ==
* The vampiric holiday "Galoween" is a parody of real-world Halloween.
*St. Nicolette's Day and Saint Nicolette herself are the Qirsyllvian versions of real-world Christmas and Santa Claus respectively.
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