Where I come from, the winter holiday's called the Glacier Spirits Festival. But everybody not from the South Pole calls it The Southern Water Tribe Winter Festival.
It's when both water tribes, north and south, get together to celebrate their ancestors and the spirits that watch over us. It used to be really serious, all about meditating and fasting and contemplating the year in silence. But that was a long time ago, now it's like a big party where everybody has fun and exchanges little gifts and honors the spirits by embracing life with a carnival.
Oh, and there's plays and dances and things. And a huge feast in honor of the tribe chiefs. It lasts for a week.
Kind of sounds like how people celebrate Christmas to me. Sometimes, people go to chruch during that time and sing a lot! And how they put on plays about the holiday too!
It doesn't sound that much different to me! I think it'll be pretty cool to celebrate that festival too!
It sort of is, but the kinds of plays and things we do are a LOT different.
I don't really celebrate it here, since...I can't go home for it, and that's really important. And nobody else knows the stories or the legends or the dances or anything really.
Then please do! I really want to be able to celebrate as many holidays as we can get around here! Especially when that means we get to party as much as we can too!
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bent_the_world) wrote2017-04-30 01:30 pm
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It's when both water tribes, north and south, get together to celebrate their ancestors and the spirits that watch over us. It used to be really serious, all about meditating and fasting and contemplating the year in silence. But that was a long time ago, now it's like a big party where everybody has fun and exchanges little gifts and honors the spirits by embracing life with a carnival.
Oh, and there's plays and dances and things. And a huge feast in honor of the tribe chiefs. It lasts for a week.
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It doesn't sound that much different to me! I think it'll be pretty cool to celebrate that festival too!
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I don't really celebrate it here, since...I can't go home for it, and that's really important. And nobody else knows the stories or the legends or the dances or anything really.
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It just seems like a shame that we can't celebrate it here though.
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Pretty please? With lots of sugar on top?
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[Text] Sorry about the late!
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