Midwinter Festival, Celebration of Lights, Longest Night. It goes by several names, depending on the country. However, it’s celebrated in a similar manner all around Terra. There is feasting. There is drinking. There is revelry and merriment. Occasionally, there is gift-giving.
There is almost always a reenactment, of some sort, of the changing of the season: the death of “Old Man Winter” at the hands of the Spring Maiden. Or the death of the Winter Crone and the hands of the Prince of Spring. No matter the celestial beings, it heralds the impending change of the season.
In many cultures, it is also seen as the start of the new year. As the longest night of the year, they see it as an end of the old.
However it is celebrated, it is always a joyous occasion. Young and old alike spend the time on a little frivolity.
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