Vidovdan

**Vidovdan** is a Serbian festival, celebrated on 28 June. It is the country's national day, which is also the day of St. Vitus, a popular Christian saint in the country.

Some Serbians claimed that Vidovdan is also a sacred day for the god of war, Svetovid, as Svetovid was syncretised into St. Vitus after the Slavs converted to Christianity.

## Bujanski Independence Day

"*So Svjetodan Radostij! Da Zdrastovis Svoboda!*" ("Happy Independence Day! Long Live Freedom!")

Vidovdan, or **Svjetodan**, is the Bujanski national day. It celebrates its independence from Wannaenid rule, which also happens to fall under the same day as Svetovid's sacred festival, making it also known as **Victory Day**. Fittingly, Lord Svetovid is also the kingdom's national god, and the patron of the Royal Family; so worshipping him is a way for Bujanski to express their love for their nation.

### Bujanski customs

Bujanski celebrate Vidovdan with a fireworks show, boat races, raising the blue and white Albatross Flag, and boat parades. One of the most controversial traditions on Vidovdan is the live sacrifice of a white stallion horse by the King, as an offering to Svetovid, the national god. To address this, after nine years of killed horses, King Dostagir instead burned mutton meat arranged in the shape of a horse as the offering, or burned a wooden horse. Yet some Bujanski mock the absurdities of their country by hosting a festival of nine horses, celebrating the killed horses as heavenly spirits and national symbols.

Blue, white, and orange, the national colours of Bujan, are used everywhere to celebrate independence and freedom. They were used even before the current blue flag is made the official flag of Bujan, including by various partisan groups who protected repentant Terrans against mobs of fanatics.

228 is a popular number in Bujan, representing June (the second month) and the 28th day, both being the date of Independence Day.

"Eastern passes", gold-coloured cards for travellers to visit the eastern provinces of Bujan without needing a fee, have their cost cut by half to 2.50 venchasi. The normal price is 5 venchasi.

## Restoration Day (October 4)

### The Greatest Victory

Some parts of Bujan were wise enough to remember the massacres in July after independence, when angry fanatics decided to murder the remaining Terrans to collectively punish them for historical sins. The murderers formed an army known as the ATA, Anti-Terran Action. Some Bujanski wisely knew that those same "punishers" would eventually kill them too, so they protected loyalist or innocent Terrans and fought back.

The deaths of the last ATA members and their defeat was on October 3, but the next day was celebrated as the end of the civil war. Because it allowed Bujanski and loyalist Terrans to freely rebuild the nation, this was considered as an alternative to Independence Day as the second "Victory Day". They argued that saving Bujan from total annihilation or fascism was itself the greatest victory and service to their kingdom.

### Customs

Restoration Day is celebrated with orchestral or musical performances of the royal anthem, in memory of the royal anthem played to celebrate the end of the July massacres.

People also hang lanterns, parade with lanterns, offer prayers, host tourists, and showcase the cultures of Bujan's various allies.

## Trivia

* Bujan has two Victory Days, the first on May 28 (exactly the previous month) for Motakol's unification of Bujan; and this one being the second.
	+ There were proposals to move the second Victory Day from Independence Day to October 4, the official end of the July massacres.

## See also

* Bujanski calendar
* Wonao calendar