Christmas in the Realms! [Archive] - Wizards Community

Christmas in the Realms! [Archive] - Wizards Community

Post/Author/DateTime Post
Maaz, Technomancer
12-25-03, 01:08 PM ...well probably not. Has anyone ever heard of any Holidays in the Realms?
Thrudjelmer
12-25-03, 02:14 PM I don't think it would be unheard of to have an equivalent to the festival of Yule in the temperate and colder regions of the Realms... I wouldn't make it specific to a given religion like Christmas has been, otherwise it would see very limited use. It should be a communal event, and different religions would involve themselves in different ways.
Alac Luin
12-25-03, 05:05 PM It could be either the winter soltice (Nighttral 20) or
Midwinter (the day between Hammer and Alturiak)

Midwinter and the seasonal festivals (holidays) are breifly mentioned on page 77 of the FRCS

Holy Days (the origans or the word holidays) are church specific, some deities celibrate more then others and many of these fall on the seasonal festivals, of other widely celibrated festivals.
Damarkos
12-26-03, 07:46 AM Well there is the Ippensheir, the Gondite holy day. Its a festival held for 12 days directly following Greengrass. It is held in honor of the first servant of Gond, Ippen. It’s basically a big trade show, but it is a holy holiday for the Gondites.

That’s my input, anyone know any other holy otherwise holidays on Toril? Oh and by the by if anyone is actually wondering where the section on Ippensheir, its in F&P on page 25.

Thanks,
Damarkos
dragonheart
12-26-03, 10:50 AM Our Christmas is really a catholic adaptaion of the old celtic/nordic winter solstice festival - held just far enough after teh solstice to tell that the days are starting to get longer so that you can see that winter will (eventually) end. With that in mind I would think that Midwinter would be the appropriate festival. one problem - its mostly an upperclass festival according to the FRCS.
Shar Baenre
12-26-03, 09:47 PM in the 2nd edition book Faiths and Avatars, there is some more detail to religious rites by diety. And Tymora has something similiar to Christmas. I can't remember the details, and I don't have the book with me right now, so.... but um, yeah.
tauster
12-28-03, 06:33 AM i found this one on some website (can´t remember exactly where it is from...), it´s a list of realmsian holidays:
http://people.freenet.de/chefseehund/fr-holidays.zip

tauster
Damarkos
12-28-03, 03:39 PM SWEET!

My hats of to you sir.:tiphat:
WizO_BigSister
12-29-03, 06:30 AM Dredged this out from my list of standard useful links. It tells you how the Faerun calendar matches our own northern hemisphere seasons. Faerunian Calendar (http://myth-drannor.net/DlabraddathNet/z-Dlabraddath/Calendar.htm)
PhilCW
12-29-03, 10:07 PM A big part of christmas being in december was that the Romans had a holiday in december (in honour of Mars IIRC) where they would give gifts to one another. The Christians, possibly in an attempt to convert the romans, also adopted this practice for the "birth of christ" and some debate that they actually did "change" the date to be in december as well.
Reader
12-30-03, 02:27 AM Originally posted by PhilCW
(in honour of Mars IIRC)

The Saturnalia was held from the 17th to the 23rd, and there was a feast in Saturn's name on the 25th. The date corresponding to the 25th was also often the date that the winter solstice fell upon before the Romans switched from their lunar calendar, which didn't synch up properly with the solar cycle, to a solar calendar. Additionally the cult of the sun god Mithra, which held Sunday as a holy day on which they ate a consecrated meal of wine and bread, celebrated the 25th as the birthday of their god, who they believed had died and been reborn, though not in the same sense that christians hold this belief of Christ.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Maaz, Technomancer 12-25-03, 01:08 PM	...well probably not. Has anyone ever heard of any Holidays in the Realms?
Thrudjelmer 12-25-03, 02:14 PM	I don't think it would be unheard of to have an equivalent to the festival of Yule in the temperate and colder regions of the Realms... I wouldn't make it specific to a given religion like Christmas has been, otherwise it would see very limited use. It should be a communal event, and different religions would involve themselves in different ways.
Alac Luin 12-25-03, 05:05 PM	It could be either the winter soltice (Nighttral 20) or Midwinter (the day between Hammer and Alturiak) Midwinter and the seasonal festivals (holidays) are breifly mentioned on page 77 of the FRCS Holy Days (the origans or the word holidays) are church specific, some deities celibrate more then others and many of these fall on the seasonal festivals, of other widely celibrated festivals.
Damarkos 12-26-03, 07:46 AM	Well there is the Ippensheir, the Gondite holy day. Its a festival held for 12 days directly following Greengrass. It is held in honor of the first servant of Gond, Ippen. It’s basically a big trade show, but it is a holy holiday for the Gondites. That’s my input, anyone know any other holy otherwise holidays on Toril? Oh and by the by if anyone is actually wondering where the section on Ippensheir, its in F&P on page 25. Thanks, Damarkos
dragonheart 12-26-03, 10:50 AM	Our Christmas is really a catholic adaptaion of the old celtic/nordic winter solstice festival - held just far enough after teh solstice to tell that the days are starting to get longer so that you can see that winter will (eventually) end. With that in mind I would think that Midwinter would be the appropriate festival. one problem - its mostly an upperclass festival according to the FRCS.
Shar Baenre 12-26-03, 09:47 PM	in the 2nd edition book Faiths and Avatars, there is some more detail to religious rites by diety. And Tymora has something similiar to Christmas. I can't remember the details, and I don't have the book with me right now, so.... but um, yeah.
tauster 12-28-03, 06:33 AM	i found this one on some website (can´t remember exactly where it is from...), it´s a list of realmsian holidays: http://people.freenet.de/chefseehund/fr-holidays.zip tauster
Damarkos 12-28-03, 03:39 PM	SWEET! My hats of to you sir.:tiphat:
WizO_BigSister 12-29-03, 06:30 AM	Dredged this out from my list of standard useful links. It tells you how the Faerun calendar matches our own northern hemisphere seasons. Faerunian Calendar (http://myth-drannor.net/DlabraddathNet/z-Dlabraddath/Calendar.htm)
PhilCW 12-29-03, 10:07 PM	A big part of christmas being in december was that the Romans had a holiday in december (in honour of Mars IIRC) where they would give gifts to one another. The Christians, possibly in an attempt to convert the romans, also adopted this practice for the "birth of christ" and some debate that they actually did "change" the date to be in december as well.
Reader 12-30-03, 02:27 AM	Originally posted by PhilCW (in honour of Mars IIRC) The Saturnalia was held from the 17th to the 23rd, and there was a feast in Saturn's name on the 25th. The date corresponding to the 25th was also often the date that the winter solstice fell upon before the Romans switched from their lunar calendar, which didn't synch up properly with the solar cycle, to a solar calendar. Additionally the cult of the sun god Mithra, which held Sunday as a holy day on which they ate a consecrated meal of wine and bread, celebrated the 25th as the birthday of their god, who they believed had died and been reborn, though not in the same sense that christians hold this belief of Christ.