Growfest

4th= Celene's full moon, Vernal Equinox
Very important to Atroa, Beory, Berei, Elhonna.

* 1st day is Banapis, also known as "Losar" among certain Bakluni sects, who consider it to be New Year's! Huge parties with presents exchanged, considered everybody's birthday. Not celebrated in Suel lands, who consider celebration of any but one's actual birth date to be evidence of ignorance and barbarism.

* Last day is "Foolsday," sacred to Olidammara and other trickster gods. In Ulek and among rangers, it is traditional to send someone 'hunting the gawk' {a meaningless errand}. The Lord of Misrule from the Feast of Unreason, variantly named Motely or Widdershins, is sometimes elected to preside over this day as well. In Greyhawk, the Desportium of Magick is held that night in and around the Great Citadel.

* Also known as the Feast of Atroa in celebration of a new growing season and the promise of prosperity. This is time when communities gather together to plan for the future. It is not uncommon for a celebration to center around a community event like a barn-raising, to help a neighbor whose homestead may have been damaged over the winter. The day's community work is then relieved with revelry in the evening where bonds of friendship often grow.

IV Planting (Low Summer/Spring)

4th= Luna's full moon
18th= Luna's new moon

11th= Tanabat, also known as the Seven Sisters Festival. Legend has it that Olidammara was entertained on this day by seven lovely sisters, who welcomed him in his guise as a minstrel and treated him royally. So impressed was he by their treatment and their wine that he revealed himself and offered to transport them to his halls, there to live in bliss forever. Though the vineyard's exact location is a mystery, the legend is widespread, and many grape growing regions claim that the Seven Sisters came from their lands. At night, therefore, the story is acted out and people head out to the grape arbors, listening for echoes of the sisters' laughter as they ascended to paradise. The rest of the holiday is a celebration of the grape and its byproducts and features prayers for a good vintage in the coming year, as well as much celebration and sampling of the previous year's wines. It is especially sacred to followers of the Laughing Rogue, though followers of other nature deities often officiate as well.