Post by Dizzy on Jun 16, 2006 2:55:18 GMT -5
Pern's calendar year was reversed so that the months would coincide with the seasons, and their year or turn would being as winter ended... the Winter Solstice.
The most important Gather at Fort and most holds is the two-day celebration for Turnover, at the winter solstice. A Pernese Turn consists of 366 days, or 52 sevendays plus two days left over. Those two days of Turnover, called Turn's End and turn's Beginning, are makred by special presentations by the Harper Hall.
Another festival is Crossing Day, which celebrates the anniversary of the Second Crossing.
There is a Harvest Gather every Turn, but the most important of these comes once every 250 Turns. the first Harvest Gather after a Pass ends is a major festival, held on the twenty-eighth (the last) day of the ninth month.
A celebraton peculiar to Fort Hold and Weyr is the Firstday of the Weyr, the first day of the fifth momth, dating from the four-teenth year of the colony. Each region has a celebration for the Weyr it is beholden to, but Fort's is special since it honors the first Weyr and the first of dragonkind (this celebration has been lost in our AU)
Ruatha is the center for runnerbeast racing, but Fort among others holds some race meets. The races meet wherever there is a flat enough grassoid field lying fallow that season. The Fort Holders and other Seafaring Holds host many sailing races. Gaming meets are popular, too, such as board game tournaments or partnered chess on a big board, a Pernese variation fo the Ancient game.
Fort Hold celebrates the Landing, but they have forgotten its real importance. Landing is considered to be the eighth day of the third month in Southern. After the plague, the clebration was remembered as Landing Day, but the reason for its name was lost. This day has come to be a planting festival for early crops.
The Gather Stalls are stored in a back cavern until they are wanted. Each Craft has traditional places where they set up their pitches, unchanged in hundreds of Turns.
(Dragonlover's Guide To Pern. Second edition. Jody Lynn Nye w/ Anne MacCaffrey. Copyright 1989, 1997. Bill Fawcett and Accociates. Pg. 76)
The most important Gather at Fort and most holds is the two-day celebration for Turnover, at the winter solstice. A Pernese Turn consists of 366 days, or 52 sevendays plus two days left over. Those two days of Turnover, called Turn's End and turn's Beginning, are makred by special presentations by the Harper Hall.
Another festival is Crossing Day, which celebrates the anniversary of the Second Crossing.
There is a Harvest Gather every Turn, but the most important of these comes once every 250 Turns. the first Harvest Gather after a Pass ends is a major festival, held on the twenty-eighth (the last) day of the ninth month.
A celebraton peculiar to Fort Hold and Weyr is the Firstday of the Weyr, the first day of the fifth momth, dating from the four-teenth year of the colony. Each region has a celebration for the Weyr it is beholden to, but Fort's is special since it honors the first Weyr and the first of dragonkind (this celebration has been lost in our AU)
Ruatha is the center for runnerbeast racing, but Fort among others holds some race meets. The races meet wherever there is a flat enough grassoid field lying fallow that season. The Fort Holders and other Seafaring Holds host many sailing races. Gaming meets are popular, too, such as board game tournaments or partnered chess on a big board, a Pernese variation fo the Ancient game.
Fort Hold celebrates the Landing, but they have forgotten its real importance. Landing is considered to be the eighth day of the third month in Southern. After the plague, the clebration was remembered as Landing Day, but the reason for its name was lost. This day has come to be a planting festival for early crops.
The Gather Stalls are stored in a back cavern until they are wanted. Each Craft has traditional places where they set up their pitches, unchanged in hundreds of Turns.
(Dragonlover's Guide To Pern. Second edition. Jody Lynn Nye w/ Anne MacCaffrey. Copyright 1989, 1997. Bill Fawcett and Accociates. Pg. 76)
