Daistallia 2104
27-10-2004, 19:05
What are your nations major holidays and festivals?
Here is a small sampling of Daistallia 2104's major festivals. Note the influance of the Swiss and Nepalese traditions. (Also note this list is incomplete...)
Faesaln
Faesaln (meaning fruitfulness) is a unique festival in Daistallia. It draws on the Swiss Catholic traditions. Unlike most Catholic Carnival celebrations, it begins a week after the beginning of Lent. In urban centers, there are street parades featuring drum, pipe, and accordian bands accompanied the display of weaponry, martial arts displays, dancing and fancy-dress revelry. Many people take part under the auspices of thr several hundred Kaeriks (organizational groups and musical bands).
On Sunday night after Ash Wednesday, celebrants begin the celebrations with a spectacular bonfire, which lasts until after midnight. The bonfire is followed by a parade of illuminated lanterns through the city centre.Around noon the following day, masked parades are held throught the city with much music, dancing and jollity, followed in the evening by more localized performances by smaller local Kaeriks.
Most participants take their costumes very seriously and many people spend weeks in advance making huge, cartoonish papier-mâché heads and sewing lavish jester-like costumes. Comericial masks, half-masks, and face paint are considered taboo.
In rural areas, revelers go from house to house begging to obtain the ingredients for a communal meal. This is known as the The Faesaln Run. The riders wear costumes conceal ing their identity, which often parody authority figures, while consumeing large amounts of alcohol in their festive quest. As they ride from one household to the next, the riders engage in rowdy celebration. By mid to late afternoon, the riders return to their base town and parade down the main street on the way to the location where the evening meal will be prepared.
Many people recite satirical poems directed at local bigwigs, in the city’s taverns and restaurants during the evenings. There are also comical oompah concerts, played on old and dented brass instruments by local bands.
Traditional sweets are often served, including: Faesalnkuki, a light, thin round cake covered in icing sugar, and Faesalnfae, a kind of caraway-seed pretzel, and Faemaro a cake made from the flour of new rice steamed with melted sugar.
Weasn
This event takes place during the two weeks prior to the first Sunday in October. A special darker and stronger, in both taste and alcohol, beer is brewed for the occasion,. It is served in a large tankards. Local breweries are serve this special seasonal beer in large beer tents along with large quantities of food, most of it traditional hearty fare such as sausage, barbequed chicken, barbequed lish, ad the like.
Daezaen
Daezaen is celebrated during late December. It is the greatest religious festival in Daistallia. During this festival, family members who live apart from their families often come home to celebrate the festival. On the first day of the festival people sow seeds in a tiny vessel filled with clay and water. On the second day of the festival, youngsters take "blessings" in the form of sweets and other food items and clothes from their family elders. Government offices, schools and other offices are usually closed during the festival.
Badha Ghalae
Badha Ghalae: This festival falls in the month of December. Families having lost their members or relatives during the previous year spend all night meditating or praying at their local Buddhist temple. At sunrise, they have a ritual bath, then walk through the graveyard, scattering grain along the path.
Here is a small sampling of Daistallia 2104's major festivals. Note the influance of the Swiss and Nepalese traditions. (Also note this list is incomplete...)
Faesaln
Faesaln (meaning fruitfulness) is a unique festival in Daistallia. It draws on the Swiss Catholic traditions. Unlike most Catholic Carnival celebrations, it begins a week after the beginning of Lent. In urban centers, there are street parades featuring drum, pipe, and accordian bands accompanied the display of weaponry, martial arts displays, dancing and fancy-dress revelry. Many people take part under the auspices of thr several hundred Kaeriks (organizational groups and musical bands).
On Sunday night after Ash Wednesday, celebrants begin the celebrations with a spectacular bonfire, which lasts until after midnight. The bonfire is followed by a parade of illuminated lanterns through the city centre.Around noon the following day, masked parades are held throught the city with much music, dancing and jollity, followed in the evening by more localized performances by smaller local Kaeriks.
Most participants take their costumes very seriously and many people spend weeks in advance making huge, cartoonish papier-mâché heads and sewing lavish jester-like costumes. Comericial masks, half-masks, and face paint are considered taboo.
In rural areas, revelers go from house to house begging to obtain the ingredients for a communal meal. This is known as the The Faesaln Run. The riders wear costumes conceal ing their identity, which often parody authority figures, while consumeing large amounts of alcohol in their festive quest. As they ride from one household to the next, the riders engage in rowdy celebration. By mid to late afternoon, the riders return to their base town and parade down the main street on the way to the location where the evening meal will be prepared.
Many people recite satirical poems directed at local bigwigs, in the city’s taverns and restaurants during the evenings. There are also comical oompah concerts, played on old and dented brass instruments by local bands.
Traditional sweets are often served, including: Faesalnkuki, a light, thin round cake covered in icing sugar, and Faesalnfae, a kind of caraway-seed pretzel, and Faemaro a cake made from the flour of new rice steamed with melted sugar.
Weasn
This event takes place during the two weeks prior to the first Sunday in October. A special darker and stronger, in both taste and alcohol, beer is brewed for the occasion,. It is served in a large tankards. Local breweries are serve this special seasonal beer in large beer tents along with large quantities of food, most of it traditional hearty fare such as sausage, barbequed chicken, barbequed lish, ad the like.
Daezaen
Daezaen is celebrated during late December. It is the greatest religious festival in Daistallia. During this festival, family members who live apart from their families often come home to celebrate the festival. On the first day of the festival people sow seeds in a tiny vessel filled with clay and water. On the second day of the festival, youngsters take "blessings" in the form of sweets and other food items and clothes from their family elders. Government offices, schools and other offices are usually closed during the festival.
Badha Ghalae
Badha Ghalae: This festival falls in the month of December. Families having lost their members or relatives during the previous year spend all night meditating or praying at their local Buddhist temple. At sunrise, they have a ritual bath, then walk through the graveyard, scattering grain along the path.