Great Moon's Glory
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The night of Great Moon's Glory on Readying 11th, when Luna is full but Celene is new. It is holy to Celestian, and a time when offerings are left to Atroa to beg her to come early and to Telchur to request that he peacefully leave. Druids of the Old Faith are known to also hold this night as auspicious, but few outside their circles know the details.
It's possible that this is the same as the elven holiday known as Faerieluck.
"Luna is full, but Celeneis new. ...
The church of Celestian regards this night as holy and engages in its usual all-night outdoor vigil of the heavens outside the Grey College Observatory. Oeridian citizens make offerings to shrines to the lesser goddess Atroa on this night, asking the Queen of Spring to come early. Offerings to shrines of Telchur (the Oeridian god of the north and winter) are also made, praising his work bur suggesting he go home to the pole and sleep.
The local druids and their small congregations also hold this night sacred, but little is known of their activities. They have been observed to collect at the Stone Ring outside the Free City’s Druid’s Gate, where they chant and pray all night.
Many farmers and herdsmen mark this night as the beginning of spring, though Readying 1st is the calendar date for spring's start. From this day on, the cold north wind warms and starts blowing from the cast. Skies grow cloudier and snow turns to rain—lots of it— which can turn overnight into a glaze of ice coveting the land. Frozen toads melt and turn to complete muck, so wagons and cans ate even worse off than during the dead of winter when the mud is frozen, if slippery and rough. Nearly all travel is by foot or hone in spring, but few see the need to go far. Though winter is regarded as the hostile season, the period from Great Moon’s doty to Growfest is often considered the most depressing part. Still, if a bucket of water left out overnight does not freeze for three days tunning, that’s a good sign that weather is on the way."—The Adventure Begins , p.42)[1]
Calendar
| Starday | Sunday | Moonday | Godsday | Waterday | Earthday | Freeday |
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| 8 | 9 | 10 | 11  Great Moon's Glory Faerieluck |
12 | 13 | 14 |
| Greyhawk calendar | |
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| Days | Starday • Sunday • Moonday • Godsday • Waterday • Earthday • Freeday |
| Months | Fireseek • Readying • Coldeven • Planting • Flocktime • Wealsun • Reaping • Goodmonth • Harvester • Patchwall • Ready'reat • Sunsebb |
| Festivals | Needfest • Growfest • Richfest • Brewfest |
| Seasons | Winter • Spring • Low summer • High summer • (Summer) • Autumn |
| Solar events | Spring equinox, Summer solstice, Autumnal equinox, Winter solstice |
| Holidays | Agelong • Blood Moon Festival • Breadgiving Day • Council Day • Council of Mayors and Manorial Lords • Crowning Day • Dark Night • Day of the Legion Will • Day of Treachery • Declaration Day • Election Day • Faerieluck • Fallrite • Feast of Edoira • Feast of Fools • Feast of Wenta • Freedom Day • Frost Days • Great Moon's Glory • Guild Days • Holy Day of Serenity • Midsummer's Day • Midwinter Night • Remembrance Day • Rollo's Day • Saint Cuthbert's Day • Spring Feast • Springrite • Thrommel's Day • Yeartide • |
References
Notes
Citations
- ↑ The Adventure Begins (1998), p.42.
Bibliography
- Moore, Roger E. The Adventure Begins. Renton, WA: TSR, 1998 (pp. 7, 43-44).
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