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| rdfs:comment | - The Feast of Fools, known also as the festum fatuorum, festum stultorum, festum hypodiaconorum, or fête des fous, are the varying names given to popular medieval festivals regularly celebrated by the clergy and laity from the fifth century until the sixteenth century in several countries of Europe, principally France, but also Spain, Germany, England, and Scotland. A similar celebration was the Feast of Asses.
- Feast of Fools is celebrated during the month of Tammaz (in Arad Doman and the Borderlands) and Saven (everywhere else), the exact day varying according to locality. A day in which all order of rank is flip-flopped: people of high status perform lowly tasks, while the low do no work and give orders to their usual superiors. In many villages and towns the most foolish person is given a lofty but foolish title, and for that one day everyone has to obey whatever orders the chosen one gives. Celebrations for this holiday can include wearing of masks, pranks, and the exchange of sweets and small pastries.
- The Feast of Fools is a holiday in the Tastigon Calendar. It's an epagomenal day that falls between Spring's Eve (the last day of winter) and Spring's Day (the first day of spring, and the new year). It is the uncounted 361st day of the year, and does not appear on any calendar. In God Stalk, Jame calls it a leap-day, implying that it's an intercalary day. That would mean that a true year is 361 days, and since that does not quite divide perfectly into 4 seasons, a extra day is needed to make the calendar work.
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| Significance | - *Epagomenal day
*New Year's Eve
*Festival of inverted respect
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| Tastigon date | - Unmarked day between Winter 120 and Spring 1
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| Quote | - From gate to gate, Tai-tastigon blazed with lights. The midnight sky bloomed suddenly with scarlet flowers, emerald vines rising, golden fountains dripping fiery sparks on the rooftops below. Candles thronged every window. Bonfires threw their fitful glare on the façades of houses, on the fantastic figures that leaped and whirled around them. Down River Street came the effigy of a major fertility god borne on the shoulders of its shouting worshippers. Its priests ran on ahead with robes tucked up, snatching flowers from passers-by, weaving them into garlands, and dashing back to throw them over the figure's jutting phallus. Those who followed loudly kept score. In all that great, exulting city, only the Temple District was dark,
- “Dance with us!” cried a plump matron in a nightgown bedecked with fluttering ribbons. […] Thus they were pulled into one of many chains of celebrants that snaked back and forth down through the city’s byways, between the legs of stilt walkers, around men wearing the giant heads of gods. […] The chain broke and re-formed. Now Jame was holding hands with a baker, whose every step raised clouds of flour from his clothing. […] They plunged into another group who were tossing one of their number in a blanket.
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| abstract | - The Feast of Fools is a holiday in the Tastigon Calendar. It's an epagomenal day that falls between Spring's Eve (the last day of winter) and Spring's Day (the first day of spring, and the new year). It is the uncounted 361st day of the year, and does not appear on any calendar. In God Stalk, Jame calls it a leap-day, implying that it's an intercalary day. That would mean that a true year is 361 days, and since that does not quite divide perfectly into 4 seasons, a extra day is needed to make the calendar work. Celebrations differ by region, but there are various upsets all across Rathillien, with a general theme of mockery, and power structures being reversed.
- The Feast of Fools, known also as the festum fatuorum, festum stultorum, festum hypodiaconorum, or fête des fous, are the varying names given to popular medieval festivals regularly celebrated by the clergy and laity from the fifth century until the sixteenth century in several countries of Europe, principally France, but also Spain, Germany, England, and Scotland. A similar celebration was the Feast of Asses.
- Feast of Fools is celebrated during the month of Tammaz (in Arad Doman and the Borderlands) and Saven (everywhere else), the exact day varying according to locality. A day in which all order of rank is flip-flopped: people of high status perform lowly tasks, while the low do no work and give orders to their usual superiors. In many villages and towns the most foolish person is given a lofty but foolish title, and for that one day everyone has to obey whatever orders the chosen one gives. Celebrations for this holiday can include wearing of masks, pranks, and the exchange of sweets and small pastries. Alternate names for this holiday include:
* Foolday - in Two Rivers and Baerlon
* Festival of Unreason - in Saldaea
* Festival of Fools - in Kandor In Tear, Illian, and the southern half of Altara, the time between the Feast of Abram and the Feast of Fools is considered the most propitious for a wedding.
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