Lantern Festival
Major Festival
A month after the winter solstice, when the night is dark and spring seems most distant, the people celebrate the returning sun with a parade of lanterns and candles. They send prayers to Lada, Khors, and Aten in elaborate ceremonies involving candles, lanterns, illumination magic, and sometimes lantern or candle drakes. A torchlit or candlelit singing parade might wind its way around an entire town as part of the Lantern Festival; other places send small floating lights into the sky as part of a solar mass. The festival ends early for children, and at dawn for the priests and the devout who maintain a vigil through the night.
A month after the winter solstice, when the night is dark and spring seems most distant, the people celebrate the returning sun with a parade of lanterns and candles. They send prayers to Lada, Khors, and Aten in elaborate ceremonies involving candles, lanterns, illumination magic, and sometimes lantern or candle drakes. A torchlit or candlelit singing parade might wind its way around an entire town as part of the Lantern Festival; other places send small floating lights into the sky as part of a solar mass. The festival ends early for children, and at dawn for the priests and the devout who maintain a vigil through the night.
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