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| - The region of the Iliac Bay has a rich history, and not surprisingly, a number of holidays unique to it because of this history. The Breton and the Redguard cultures have many similarities, but just as many distinctions. An analysis of the holidays is one way to study the people. As any schoolchild could tell you, the Redguards are a relatively new culture to Tamriel. Their arrival from their homeland is actually well recorded, though it occured several thousand years ago, in the 808th year of the 1st Era. Hammerfell was a great desert encompassed by almost impassable mountains -- unclaimed and unwanted. Many of the holidays extant in modern Hammerfell seem to be direct translations of older Redguard festivals before their migration to Tamriel. The orgiastic seasonal celebrations seem unusual in a province with few changes in the weather from month to month. Yet on the 28th of Suns Dawn, the Redguards of the Banthan jungle celebrate Aduros Nau to relieve the wintertide lethargy; on the 1st of Mid Year, the people of Abibon-Gora celebrate Drigh R'Zimb in honor of the sun, which no normal Redguard worships in this day; similarly, on the 29th of Suns Height, the festival in the Desert called Fiery Night, seems almost perverse in such an environment; the Koomu Alezer'i on the 11th of Last Seed in Sentinel has been translated as a harvest thanksgiving, though many scholars have suggested that it was once a springtide holiday; similarly, the Feast of the Tiger in the Bantha on the 14th of Last Seed was probably once a religious holiday to a Tiger God, instead of a thanksgiving. Other old Redguard holidays have either been acknowledged as part of the old culture or adjusted to fit with the climate of Hammerfell. The Serpent's Dance, for example, of Satakalaam is patently an old festival honoring a Serpent God of the homeland who evidently did not survive the journey to Hammerfell. The significance of the date, the 3rd of Suns Dusk, has been lost with the Serpent Priests. Baranth Do, on the 18th of Evening Star, and Chil'a, on the 24th of the same month, are both New Years festivals. Most likely, they have been moved from their original dates to correspond with the notion of the year defined in Tamriel. The Bretons have been in Tamriel since before recorded history. Their holidays have remained almost unchanged since primitive times, though new holidays have been created to replace those which have lost popularity. The oldest holidays still observed in High Rock must include Waking Day, on the 18th of Morning Star, when the people of the Yeorth Burrowland wake the spirits of nature after the winter, very nearly in the tradition of their more reverential ancestors. Flower Day, held on the 25th of First Seed in the smaller villages of High Rock is most likely just as old or older. The old cult of the flower is also remembered as Gardtide in Tamarilyn Point on the 1st of Rains Hand. Daggerfall's Day of the Dead, on the 13th of Rains Hand, suggests the ancestor worship that marked the Breton religion of antiquity. Finally, the ancient goddess of the moons, Secunda, is remembered in the Moon Festival in Glenumbra Moors on the 8th of Suns Dusk, just as the nights begin to grow longer. The more recently created holidays of High Rock are those like Tibedetha, "Tibers Day," celebrated every 24th of Mid Year in honor of Alcaire's most famous, son, Tiber Septim. Likewise, Othroktide on the 5th of Suns Dawn is held in honor of the first and most illustrious Baron of Dwynnen. In quite extreme contrast, Marukh's Day on the 9th of Second Seed, is a solemn holiday, immortalizing the lessons of the equally solemn 1st Era prophet Marukh. My favorite of the modern Breton festivals has to be Mad Pelagius, held in mock honor of the most eccentric of the Septim Emperors. Pelagius was, after all, a prince of Wayrest before he became King of Solitude, and then Emperor of Tamriel. The Bretons like to boast that it was his time in High Rock that drove him mad.
- The region of the Iliac Bay has a rich history, and not surprisingly, a number of holidays unique to it because of this history. The Breton and the Redguard cultures have many similarities, but just as many distinctions. An analysis of the holidays is one way to study the people. As any schoolchild could tell you, the Redguards are a relatively new culture to Tamriel. Their arrival from their homeland is actually well recorded, though it occured several thousand years ago, in the 808th year of the 1st Era. Hammerfell was a great desert encompassed by almost impassable mountains -- unclaimed and unwanted. Many of the holidays extant in modern Hammerfell seem to be direct translations of older Redguard festivals before their migration to Tamriel. The orgiastic seasonal celebrations seem unusual in a province with few changes in the weather from month to month. Yet on the 28th of Suns Dawn, the Redguards of the Banthan jungle celebrate Aduros Nau to relieve the wintertide lethargy; on the 1st of Mid Year, the people of Abibon-Gora celebrate Drigh R'Zimb in honor of the sun, which no normal Redguard worships in this day; similarly, on the 29th of Suns Height, the festival in the Desert called Fiery Night, seems almost perverse in such an environment; the Koomu Alezer'i on the 11th of Last Seed in Sentinel has been translated as a harvest thanksgiving, though many scholars have suggested that it was once a springtide holiday; similarly, the Feast of the Tiger in the Bantha on the 14th of Last Seed was probably once a religious holiday to a Tiger God, instead of a thanksgiving. Other old Redguard holidays have either been acknowledged as part of the old culture or adjusted to fit with the climate of Hammerfell. The Serpent's Dance, for example, of Satakalaam is patently an old festival honoring a Serpent God of the homeland who evidently did not survive the journey to Hammerfell. The significance of the date, the 3rd of Suns Dusk, has been lost with the Serpent Priests. Baranth Do, on the 18th of Evening Star, and Chil'a, on the 24th of the same month, are both New Years festivals. Most likely, they have been moved from their original dates to correspond with the notion of the year defined in Tamriel. The Bretons have been in Tamriel since before recorded history. Their holidays have remained almost unchanged since primitive times, though new holidays have been created to replace those which have lost popularity. The oldest holidays still observed in High Rock must include Waking Day, on the 18th of Morning Star, when the people of the Yeorth Burrowland wake the spirits of nature after the winter, very nearly in the tradition of their more reverential ancestors. Flower Day, held on the 25th of First Seed in the smaller villages of High Rock is most likely just as old or older. The old cult of the flower is also remembered as Gardtide in Tamarilyn Point on the 1st of Rains Hand. Daggerfall's Day of the Dead, on the 13th of Rains Hand, suggests the ancestor worship that marked the Breton religion of antiquity. Finally, the ancient goddess of the moons, Secunda, is remembered in the Moon Festival in Glenumbra Moors on the 8th of Suns Dusk, just as the nights begin to grow longer. The more recently created holidays of High Rock are those like Tibedetha, "Tibers Day," celebrated every 24th of Mid Year in honor of Alcaire's most famous, son, Tiber Septim. Likewise, Othroktide on the 5th of Suns Dawn is held in honor of the first and most illustrious Baron of Dwynnen. In quite extreme contrast, Marukh's Day on the 9th of Second Seed, is a solemn holiday, immortalizing the lessons of the equally solemn 1st Era prophet Marukh. My favorite of the modern Breton festivals has to be Mad Pelagius, held in mock honor of the most eccentric of the Septim Emperors. Pelagius was, after all, a prince of Wayrest before he became King of Solitude, and then Emperor of Tamriel. The Bretons like to boast that it was his time in High Rock that drove him mad. |-|Tłumaczenie (nieoficjalne)= Święta z Zatoki Iliac Region Zatoki Iliac ma bogatą historię, i bez niespodzianki, sporą liczbę świąt dla niej wyjątkowych przez wzgląd na historię, Bretońska i Redgardzka kultura mają wiele podobieństw, ale i równie wiele różnic. Analiza świąt jest jednym ze sposobów studiowania ludzi. Jak każdy uczeń może ci powiedzieć, Redgardowie są względnie nową kulturą w Tamriel. Ich przybycie z ich ojczyzny jest właściwie dobrze zapisane, choć odbyło się parę tysięcy lat temu, w roku 808 1 Ery. Hammerfell było wielką pustynią otoczoną przez prawie nieprzekraczalne góry – niezdobyte i niechciane. Wiele ze świąt ostałych w nowoczesnym Hammerfell wydaje się bezpośrednio tłumaczyć na starsze Redgardzkie festiwale, przed ich migracją do Tamriel. Orgiastyczne kwartalne święta wydają się niezwykłe w prowincji z kilkoma zmianami pogody z miesiąca na miesiąc. Jednak 28 Wschodzącego Słońca, Redgardowie z Banthańskiej dżungli świętują Aduros Nau by dać ulgi letargowi sezonu zimowego, na 1 Śródrocza, lud Abibon-Gory świętuje Drigh R’Zimb na cześć słońca, którego żaden normalny Redgard nie czci tego dnia; podobnie na 29 Pełni Słońca, festiwal na Pustymi nazywany Ognistą Nocą, wygląda na prawie że perwersje w takim środowisku; Koomu Alezer’i na 11 Ostatniego Siewu w Wartowni, zostało przetłumaczone na dziękczynienie za zbiory, choć wielu uczonych sugerowało że było to kiedyś święto wiosenne; podobnie Uczta Tygrysa w Banthie na 14 Ostatniego Siewu było kiedyś prawdopodobnie religijne święto dla Tygrysiego Boga, zamiast dziękczynnego. Inne stare Redgardzkie święta były albo uznaje za część starej kultury lub dostosowane by pasowały do klimatu Hammerfell, Taniec Węża, na przykład, z Satakalaam to niewątpliwie stary festiwal honorujący Wężowego Boga z ojczyzny, który najwidoczniej nie przetrwał wędrówki do Hammerfell. Znaczenie daty, 3 Zachodu Słońca, zaginęło razem z Wężowymi Kapłanami. Baranth Do, na 18 Wieczornej Gwiazdy i Chil’a, na 24 tego samego miesiąca, są oba festiwalami Nowego Roku. Najpewniej zostały przeniesione z ich oryginalnych dat by wpasować się w zamysł roku zdefiniowanego w Tamriel. Bretoni byli w Tamruel od czasów sprzed zapisanej historii. Ich święta pozostały prawie że nie zmienione od tamtych prymitywnych czasów, choć nowe święta zostały utworzone by zastąpić te które straciły na popularności. Najstarsze święta wciąż obserwowane w Wysokiej Skale muszą zawierać Budzący Dzień, na 18 Gwiazdy Porannej, gdy ludzie z Jam Yeorth budzą duchy natury po zimie, bardzo wcześnie wedle tradycji ich bardziej bogobojnych przodków. Dzień Kwiecia, wyprawiany na 25 Pierwszego Siewu w mniejszych wsiach Wysokiej Skały jest pewnie równie stary lub starszy. Stary kult księcia jest również pamiętamy jako Gardtide w Szczycie Tamarilyn na 1 Deszczowej Dłoni. Daggerfallski Dzień Zmarłych, na 13 Deszczowej Dłoni sugeruje że kult przodków, który odznaczał Bretońską religię starożytności. W końcu, starożytna bogini księżycy, Secunda, jest zapamiętana w Festiwalu Księżycowym we Wrzosowiskach Glenumbry na 8 Zachodu Słońca, właśnie jak noce zaczynają robić się dłuższa. Te z bardziej niedawno utworzonych świąt Wysokiej Skały są te jak Tibedetha, „Dzień Tibera,” święcony każdego 24 Śródrocza dla honorowania najsławniejszego syna Alcaire, Tibera Septima. Podobnie Othroktide na 5 Wschodu Słońca jest wyprawiana by uhonorować pierwszego i najznakomitszego Barona z Dwynnen. W całkiem ekstremalnym kontraście, Dzień Marukha na 9 Drugiego Siewu, jest uroczystym świętem, unieśmiertelniając nauki równie poważnego proroka Marukha z 1 Ery. Moim ulubionym z nowoczesnych festiwalu Bretońskich musiał być Szalony Pelagius, wyprawiany by zadrwić z honoru najbardziej ekscentrycznego z Cesarzy linii Septimów. Pelagius był, w końcu, Księciem Wayrest zanim stał się Królem Samotni, a potem Cesarzem Tamriel. Bretoni lubią się przechwalać że to był jego czas w Wysokiej Skale, który doprowadzał go do szaleństwa.
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