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It's Queens Day (Kinda)
7 years ago
Okay the real holiday is a different month but as I stated in my previous journal I'm having a traditionally themed Durist day roughly once a week in the build up to December 21st to make up for the fact that the Durists don't have the days of Christmas or any other kind of countdown to the big holiday of the year.
Traditionally Queens Day is celebrated by being nice to and more specifically doing favours for all females including animals and those who were born male but see themselves as female. Kinda odd how even 12,000 years ago we had equal rights like this.
I can see no better way to celebrate it than to make art of Heidrun, the legendary goat that eats gold leaf and lactates only the finest mead. They're the origin of the Biblical story of creation and it's believed that in the original translation they ate babies which is why the vampir demanded that they be kicked out of paradise. However when mankind threatened the fairy realm Heidrun called to Dur to send a storm to cast the vampir adrift at sea. Mankind now realizing they had been deceived by the vampir's promises of prosperity vowed never to be saddled with them again and to stay true to the ways of Woad, a promise they later broke by converting to the Roman interpretation of the Bible during the renaissance.
Fun fact
Hadrian is a man famed for building a wall across the southern border of Scotland to keep the English from invading however he isn't the one responsible for the wall. Hadrian was not his name but rather he was known as the king of the Heidrun, the people who worshipped the god of the same name and kept goats as livestock in honour of her.
They built the wall without any instruction from their leader to stop their goats from wandering into English territory where they would be hunted for sport. Turns out that the tall polished stone pillars the original wall was built out of were just as difficult for men to climb as it was for goats.
Traditionally Queens Day is celebrated by being nice to and more specifically doing favours for all females including animals and those who were born male but see themselves as female. Kinda odd how even 12,000 years ago we had equal rights like this.
I can see no better way to celebrate it than to make art of Heidrun, the legendary goat that eats gold leaf and lactates only the finest mead. They're the origin of the Biblical story of creation and it's believed that in the original translation they ate babies which is why the vampir demanded that they be kicked out of paradise. However when mankind threatened the fairy realm Heidrun called to Dur to send a storm to cast the vampir adrift at sea. Mankind now realizing they had been deceived by the vampir's promises of prosperity vowed never to be saddled with them again and to stay true to the ways of Woad, a promise they later broke by converting to the Roman interpretation of the Bible during the renaissance.
Fun fact
Hadrian is a man famed for building a wall across the southern border of Scotland to keep the English from invading however he isn't the one responsible for the wall. Hadrian was not his name but rather he was known as the king of the Heidrun, the people who worshipped the god of the same name and kept goats as livestock in honour of her.
They built the wall without any instruction from their leader to stop their goats from wandering into English territory where they would be hunted for sport. Turns out that the tall polished stone pillars the original wall was built out of were just as difficult for men to climb as it was for goats.
