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===Holidays=== | ===Holidays=== | ||
The number of days of public holidays in the Inquisition varies, because each diocese has its own festivity calendar and, often, many cities and towns have their own semi-festive "city day". There is, however, a number of holidays which are officially recognized by the central government. This means that the following (here in chronological order) 11 holidays (for a total of 14 days) are celebrated in every diocese: | The number of days of public holidays in the Inquisition varies, because each diocese has its own festivity calendar and, often, many cities and towns have their own semi-festive "city day". There is, however, a number of holidays which are officially recognized by the central government. This means that the following (here in chronological order) 11 holidays (for a total of 14 days) are celebrated in every diocese: | ||
* The '''ranire nājaṣrān''' (or Chlouvānem New Year; literally "glowing change") falls on the first day of the year, 1 | * The '''ranire nājaṣrān''' (or Chlouvānem New Year; literally "glowing change") falls on the first day of the year, 1 pārghuṇai (the autumn equinox). | ||
* The '''hīmbajaṃšā''' (Festival of Harmony and Colors) is the first of the four main Yunyalīlti festivals. It always falls on 4 | * The '''hīmbajaṃšā''' (Festival of Harmony and Colors) is the first of the four main Yunyalīlti festivals. It always falls on 4 mālutaivrai (third month of the year). | ||
* The '''camilalyājaṃšā''' (Festival of the Greater Night), the second of the four main festivals, falls on 13 (15<sub>10</sub>) | * The '''camilalyājaṃšā''' (Festival of the Greater Night), the second of the four main festivals, falls on 13 (15<sub>10</sub>) pāṇḍalañši (fourth month), the winter solstice. It marks the longest nighttime period of the year and the beginning of longer days. It is observed even by communities in the Southern Hemisphere (as both solstices are holidays anyway), but the local significance varies from place to place. | ||
* The '''murkadhānāvīyi pārṇam''' (Day of the Inquisition) on 10 | * The '''murkadhānāvīyi pārṇam''' (Day of the Inquisition) on 10 haunyai (fifth month) is one of only three non-religious public holidays, commemorating the foundation of the Inquisition as a country, on 10 murkāsena 6291 (3783<sub>12</sub>). | ||
* The '''kaila nali jānilšeidumi pārṇam''' (Day of the Legions for Purity) on 15 (17<sub>10</sub>) | * The '''kaila nali jānilšeidumi pārṇam''' (Day of the Legions for Purity) on 15 (17<sub>10</sub>) laindyai (sixth month) is another public holiday, dedicated to the armed forces of the Inquisition. | ||
* The '''maivajaṃšā''' (Festival of the Word) is the third of the four main Yunyalīlti festivals, on 10 | * The '''maivajaṃšā''' (Festival of the Word) is the third of the four main Yunyalīlti festivals, on 10 martaṣārī (seventh month). It celebrates the first teaching of the Chlamiṣvatrā. | ||
* The '''caṃkrajavyājaṃšā''' (Festival of the Final Fire) falls on 1Ɛ (23<sub>10</sub>) brausāsena (eighth month), and is a highly symbolic religious festival where unneeded, unusable, and generally bad things (representing burdens or leftovers from the past) are burned; this is considered one of the most pictoresque happenings in the Chlouvānem world, with countless such fires lighting the night sky. | * The '''caṃkrajavyājaṃšā''' (Festival of the Final Fire) falls on 1Ɛ (23<sub>10</sub>) brausāsena (eighth month), and is a highly symbolic religious festival where unneeded, unusable, and generally bad things (representing burdens or leftovers from the past) are burned; this is considered one of the most pictoresque happenings in the Chlouvānem world, with countless such fires lighting the night sky. | ||
* The '''bhaivyāvāṣaryai''' (Oboe Nights) is the most important festival in the Yunyalīlta and the central holiday in the Chlouvānem Inquisition and in all Yunyalīlti communities on [[Verse:Calémere|Calémere]]. It lasts four days, from 13 (15<sub>10</sub>) to 16 (18<sub>10</sub>) bhaivyāvammi (eleventh month). | * The '''bhaivyāvāṣaryai''' (Oboe Nights) is the most important festival in the Yunyalīlta and the central holiday in the Chlouvānem Inquisition and in all Yunyalīlti communities on [[Verse:Calémere|Calémere]]. It lasts four days, from 13 (15<sub>10</sub>) to 16 (18<sub>10</sub>) bhaivyāvammi (eleventh month). | ||
* The '''kaili jaṃšā''' (Festival of Purity) on 4 | * The '''kaili jaṃšā''' (Festival of Purity) on 4 prātuṣāmī (thirteenth month) is a fairly recent festival, only introduced by Great Inquisitor Nāɂahilūma in 6313 (37ᘔ1<sub>12</sub>) to glorify the ultimate purity of the ''lillamurḍhyā'', which every human being must try to reach and preserve. | ||
* The '''camimurkadhāni gṇyauya''' is the Birthday of the Great Inquisitor, and as such its date is subject to change. Currently it falls on 24 (28<sub>10</sub>) | * The '''camimurkadhāni gṇyauya''' is the Birthday of the Great Inquisitor, and as such its date is subject to change. Currently it falls on 24 (28<sub>10</sub>) prātuṣāmī, birthday of Her Respectable Most Excellent Highness Hæliyǣšāvi Dhṛṣṭāvāyah ''Lairē''. | ||
* The '''lališire hulei pārṇam''' (New Moon's Day) is a religious festival without a fixed date, as it falls on the first day of the lunar year. | * The '''lališire hulei pārṇam''' (New Moon's Day) is a religious festival without a fixed date, as it falls on the first day of the lunar year. | ||
There are, furthermore, a few more holidays which are widely observed in many geographical areas. These are actually major spring festivals and are almost complementary: | There are, furthermore, a few more holidays which are widely observed in many geographical areas. These are actually major spring festivals and are almost complementary: | ||
* The '''junyahiyunyi jaṃšā''' (Festival of Blossoming Nature), where it is observed, is the second most important festival of the year. It is one of the traditional Chlouvānem festivals, celebrating the beginning of the monsoon season; it is a full celebration of nature, which is not worked for three days. Unlike other major festivals, its date varies depending on the area: most of the eastern part of the Nīmbaṇḍhāra-Lāmberah plain celebrates it from 8 to 10 | * The '''junyahiyunyi jaṃšā''' (Festival of Blossoming Nature), where it is observed, is the second most important festival of the year. It is one of the traditional Chlouvānem festivals, celebrating the beginning of the monsoon season; it is a full celebration of nature, which is not worked for three days. Unlike other major festivals, its date varies depending on the area: most of the eastern part of the Nīmbaṇḍhāra-Lāmberah plain celebrates it from 8 to 10 uṣraumaṇai (ninth month), and other parts of the Plain and of the Southern Far East celebrate it at different times (but always falling during the last 3/4 days of brausāsena (8th), uṣraumaṇai (9th), or the first 8/9 days of kirmadārī (10th); dates are however the same every year in most dioceses). Dioceses outside the reach of monsoons do not celebrate it. | ||
* The '''takijan''' is a traditional, pre-Chlouvānem festival in Kaṃsatsāna (most of the East), symbolizing the flowering of ''takīh'' (apple-peach) trees. It lasts two days, on 19 and 1ᘔ (21<sub>10</sub> and 22<sub>10</sub>) | * The '''takijan''' is a traditional, pre-Chlouvānem festival in Kaṃsatsāna (most of the East), symbolizing the flowering of ''takīh'' (apple-peach) trees. It lasts two days, on 19 and 1ᘔ (21<sub>10</sub> and 22<sub>10</sub>) uṣraumaṇai. | ||
* The '''taparimba''' is celebrated in the Northeast and most of the North on the spring equinox, 1 brausāsena. In pre-Chlouvānem local tradition, this was the beginning of the new year, and as such it is also known outside these areas as ''helaṣyuñci lališire heirah'' (Northeastern New Year). | * The '''taparimba''' is celebrated in the Northeast and most of the North on the spring equinox, 1 brausāsena. In pre-Chlouvānem local tradition, this was the beginning of the new year, and as such it is also known outside these areas as ''helaṣyuñci lališire heirah'' (Northeastern New Year). | ||
* The '''ndegas''' is a Dabuke festival, remembering one's own ancestors, (celebrated in all Dabuke and Dabuke-influenced countries in western Márusúturon/eastern Védren) that falls on 3 | * The '''ndegas''' is a Dabuke festival, remembering one's own ancestors, (celebrated in all Dabuke and Dabuke-influenced countries in western Márusúturon/eastern Védren) that falls on 3 kirmadārī and is celebrated in all of the Western Inquisition. | ||
====Other holidays and important dates==== | ====Other holidays and important dates==== | ||
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The '''lališirāhe lallaheirdhūmi pārṇam''' ("Day of New Adults" or "Coming of Age Day") falls on the first day in the year which is also the beginning of a new lunar month. It is a public celebration – typically held in municipal halls – for, depending on the diocese, either all young adults having reached age of majority (the beginning of the 18th year of age, i.e. the 17th birthday in English age count)<ref>Under Chlouvānem (and Qualdomelic) laws, the beginning of the 18th year also marks the attainment of the driving age for cars, of the drinking and smoking age (but not the one for buying such products, which is two years later), the school leaving age, and the minimum age to marry without parental consent. The latter three thresholds are also valid for the other two mainly Yunyalīlti countries, Brono and Fathan, which however only grant age of majority with the beginning of the 19th year.</ref> in the previous year, or all young adults who in the preceding year have had the traditional rite of passage, which is either eleven months of mandatory military service or four lunar months carrying on life as a novice monk in a monastery (a practice called ''ukṣṇyañæltryāmita''); both nowadays happening after reaching age of majority, after finishing school<ref>Schools in most dioceses allow pupils to do ''ukṣṇyañæltryāmita'' - but not military service - as a substitution for an equivalent period in school.</ref>. Parents of the celebrated new adults are granted the right not to work on this day. | The '''lališirāhe lallaheirdhūmi pārṇam''' ("Day of New Adults" or "Coming of Age Day") falls on the first day in the year which is also the beginning of a new lunar month. It is a public celebration – typically held in municipal halls – for, depending on the diocese, either all young adults having reached age of majority (the beginning of the 18th year of age, i.e. the 17th birthday in English age count)<ref>Under Chlouvānem (and Qualdomelic) laws, the beginning of the 18th year also marks the attainment of the driving age for cars, of the drinking and smoking age (but not the one for buying such products, which is two years later), the school leaving age, and the minimum age to marry without parental consent. The latter three thresholds are also valid for the other two mainly Yunyalīlti countries, Brono and Fathan, which however only grant age of majority with the beginning of the 19th year.</ref> in the previous year, or all young adults who in the preceding year have had the traditional rite of passage, which is either eleven months of mandatory military service or four lunar months carrying on life as a novice monk in a monastery (a practice called ''ukṣṇyañæltryāmita''); both nowadays happening after reaching age of majority, after finishing school<ref>Schools in most dioceses allow pupils to do ''ukṣṇyañæltryāmita'' - but not military service - as a substitution for an equivalent period in school.</ref>. Parents of the celebrated new adults are granted the right not to work on this day. | ||
The '''kūlħanarai''' (grammatically plural), which falls on 29 | The '''kūlħanarai''' (grammatically plural), which falls on 29 haunyai, is a festival originally of Kenengyry peoples (cf. [[Soenjoan]] ''kuvul hynyrŏŋ'' (likely the origin of the Chl. term), Kŭy. ''kuy khanŭrokŭ'', Eneg. ''küğew henreg'') originally celebrating the winter solstice, hence analogue to the Chlouvānem ''camilalyājaṃšā'', but later shifted to celebrate winter itself, and which has a peculiar history in the Inquisition. It was adopted as a general festival in the Kaiṣamā era in the dioceses of the Northwest (which have not only the strongest Kenengyry presence, but were also former Evandorian colonies) as an attempt to have a Yunyalīlti-friendly version of the religious feast of Rebirth (''Cálen Ecozóntan'' in Cerian) celebrated in the Western world (itself, in its modern form in most of Calémere, a syncretic feast of Íscégon, Nivarese, and ancient Velken origins). The date of ''kūlħanarai'' on 29 haunyai (well in the middle of winter) was chosen in order to have an Eastern bloc replacement for both the Western New Year (1 fásónon, i.e. 21 haunyai) and Rebirth (1 and 2 áman, i.e. 4 and 5 laindyai); some of the typical Rebirth traditions in the Evandorian countries which colonized those areas of the Inquisition have been shifted to ''kūlħanarai''; the general imagery found even outside those areas (esp. in all major cities), however, is a mix of Western and Kenengyry themes. In the Inquisition, it is celebrated in the dioceses of Srāmiṇajāṇai, Tārṣaivai, Ūnikadīltha, Yultijaiṭa, and Līnajoṭa<ref>The Srāmiṇajāṇai were mostly an Auralian colony, with the southernmost part of it being Cerian, like Tārṣaivai and a few settlements in Ūnikadīltha. Most of Yultijaiṭa was a Nordûlaki colony, but its southwestern coast was a colony of the Kingdom of Bankráv. Līnajoṭa, however, had never been colony of any Western power.</ref>; only in Srāmiṇajāṇai, Tārṣaivai, and Yultijaiṭa it is a full holiday. | ||
Local festivals - named ''saṃsārvānis'', pl. ''saṃsārvānais'' - are a characteristic of the whole Chlouvānem world. Cities, towns, villages, even only selected hamlets or city wards, often hold special festivals, usually honoring local important [[Verse:Yunyalīlta#Kaihai|kaihai]]. Often these festivals are not public holidays, but it is quite common for these days to be half rest days in the jurisdiction(s) where they are celebrated, sometimes even in neighboring ones. | Local festivals - named ''saṃsārvānis'', pl. ''saṃsārvānais'' - are a characteristic of the whole Chlouvānem world. Cities, towns, villages, even only selected hamlets or city wards, often hold special festivals, usually honoring local important [[Verse:Yunyalīlta#Kaihai|kaihai]]. Often these festivals are not public holidays, but it is quite common for these days to be half rest days in the jurisdiction(s) where they are celebrated, sometimes even in neighboring ones. | ||