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There appear to be as many female True Zahirans as male, although | There appear to be as many female True Zahirans as male, although | ||
females are never seen pregnant or with small children. | females are never seen pregnant or with small children. | ||
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+ | ==== Holidays ===== | ||
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+ | Every full moon is a minor holiday. In addition, the following | ||
+ | specific rites are observed: | ||
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+ | == Halkak == | ||
+ | * 10/6 The Flight of the Birds. | ||
+ | * 1/6 The Return of the Birds. | ||
+ | * A wool cloth covered with hay is laid out for Halkak to sit on during the naming ceremony of a new child on the first day of its second month of life. When a new animal is born, all animals of its type are given an extra portion of food. | ||
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+ | == Tirop == | ||
+ | * 12/7 The Winter Fast (some Zahirans fast on the third day of every week of winter). | ||
+ | * 2/15 The Spring Festival. | ||
+ | * 5/21 The Summer Fast. | ||
+ | * 9/1 The Autumn Festival. | ||
+ | * It is appropriate to curse Tirop during an unusually destructive storm, or when one loses a family member or a great amount of wealth at sea, and one should praise Tirop after a successful voyage. | ||
+ | * A fast is observed the day after a sunken ship is discovered. | ||
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+ | == Ilsupeich == | ||
+ | * It is appropriate to devote an hour of feasting to Ilsupeich upon seing a tall mountain for the first time in six months. | ||
+ | * It is also appropriate to fast for the remainder of the night or day, neither eating nor drinking, upon witnessing a great earthquake or the eruption of a volcano. | ||
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+ | == Ot == | ||
+ | * It is appropriate to fast and pray to Zahira for help when one suspects Ot or one of his creatures has brought misfortune. | ||
+ | * Every new moon of Ot is a celebration of the completeness of night. | ||
+ | * A solar eclipse is considered the work of Ot, and is alternately celebrated as a feast or a fast. The alternation begins with a feast on the first witnessed eclipse. | ||
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+ | == Zabrigar == | ||
+ | * One is expected to thank Zabrigar when finding a desert oasis. | ||
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+ | Zahira and Haym do not have specific holidays attributed to them, but are worshipped on every full moon, and especially on the winter and summer solstice (10/15 and and 4/1) | ||
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