Lambing Day
Lambing day is a universal Ovinex holiday celebrating the birth of a new generation of Ovinex lambs.
History
Lambing Day is attested by the Ovinex oral traditions to have existed since all the way back to the Curved Time, though the celebration has gone through many changes since those early days in the then-young Manifold.
Execution
Lambing Day festivities involve public feasts, dancing, and music. The tribal chieftain, as the most respected member of the tribe and likely father of many lambs, is expected to 'foot the bill' for all such festivities, meaning that the job carries with it a responsibility to ensure that the necessary quantity of food has been gathered during the previous year. Rostran anthropologists speculate that the need to provide feasts for Lambing Day in ancient times may have directly contributed to the development of traditional Ovinex food preservation techniques, such as sun-drying and fermentation. Among older Ovinex, Lambing Day is regarded as a good time to pass along stories of their own youth to the next generation; the extensive oral tradition embodied in the Unnamed Ovinex Religion is, in part, renewed and refined through its retelling at Lambing Day gatherings.
Observance
Neither Native Ovinex nor Civil Ovinex regard the actual day of their birth to be of much significance, since breeding and lambing season is universal across the entire species. Instead, Ovinex all over the Manifold Sky celebrate a collective 'birthday' each year on or around the 12th day of summer Iksunten 12th, as almost all lambs in a given age cohort will have been born by that time of year. While the 12th is the preferred day, the actual date of the holiday shifts somewhat due to the imprecise nature of the Ovinex perception of time and environmental conditions which might shorten or extend the lambing season (i.e. epidemics).
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