High Sun's Day
During the day when the sun is longest in the sky, the people gather to celebrate the season of harvest. While all are encouraged to participate, High Sun's Day is particularly important to farming villages.
Execution
High Sun's Day is commonly celebrated across the world in places where agrigulte is prevalent, but nowhere more than Froenia. To honor those who spend their long days wielding hoe and spade in the sweltering fields of wheat, many take time out of their day to visit the farm workers, bringing food and water, offering a moment of reprieve, and taking up a farm tool in the worker's stead.
Of course, not all villages are dedicated to farming, but most villages participate in some way. Many offer assistance to their villages most hard-working laborers like fisherman, woodcutters and the like, while others shuttle food and drink, if they can't take on hard labor themselves.
Village leaders, mayors and priests often spend the day offering prayers to Dula, goddess of the day, holding travelling sermons for the townsfolk, walking the fields or the docks, floating along rivers or lakes to bring stories and comfort to those working the hardest jobs, alleviating the burden of time, as brief as the relief may be.
Children gather wildflowers and weave wreaths and crowns of them as a way of celebrating the year's growth, and the beauty of the bright, summer season.
As the sun sets on the day, many taverns offer free cold drinks for the hard laborers. Those that have the energy are invited to an evening dance. Those coming of age often use this as an opportunity to begin a budding romance with teens and young adults planning ahead to ask prospective partners to the High Sun's Day Dance.
Observance
People Celebrate High Sun's Day on the longest day of the year, during the middle of Summer.
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