The Lightbirth Festival

The Lightbirth Festival is an archaic tradition of the Ará cultivated among Ótapi and its many Selars that honors what they consider the time that light was created in their Framework. The traditions that honor this specific event started in Otapi, and has traveled beyond the borders of the Planar and have changed according to the different cultures that exist on the many settlements. The Lightbirth Festival is such an important cultural celebration for the Ara that even now, their descendants have retained a few methods to honor this holiday in Xalia.   Some of the methods to celebrate this festival include crafting lanterns which they use to replicate the rise of the Sun Father from the cave system that they mention in the Legend of the [The House of the Dawn]. The general concept is to try and hide the light, and children play games trying to bring it forth by reciting specific lines that they attribute to Yukajú, the Planar they say that gave them their first breath, who they personify in their spiritual traditions.
When the officiators of the games recover the light in response to the recited verse, they usually celebrate the arrival of the "light" with joyful dance and song, and spend the rest of the evening in celebration.
Crafting of these lanterns is a highly sought after process, and those crafters are often well respected in the Ara descendant communities found on Xalia, for being able to retain such an important cultural element even as the Ars seem hungry to delete every aspect of the original cultures that existed in the Framework prior to their arrival.
Lightbirth lanterns contain potent functions, as some of them are crafted with an additional second purpose, to reveal some secret messages of The Barakutáshi spread between its members.