Disorder Week: Corn grinding. Bear hunting ends.
Harmony Week: Carting (or sledging) of wood and peat stockpiles to steads. Bears begin winter sleep; cubs born soon after.
Death Week: Persistent heavy snow - all animals stabled; final slaughter and salting of winter meat; final sale or gifting of excess animals. Fur trapping of minx, marmot, ermine and sable begins.
'LongDark' or 'Canis Tame' (Frigid Time)
Fertility Week: Good Hope Festival (Windsday); darkblooms appear, the Dark Hunt. Blue or even black snow may fall (5).
Illusion Week: Skald making; branding of trollkin values.
Truth Week: First ploughing (if possible).
Disorder Week: StormBloom of first hardy sun-plants with 'armoured' shoots.
Harmony Week: Food shortages become increasingly common. Roe doe (roo) hunting ends.
Death Week: SnowMelt; fencing and hedging of ploughed fields against grazing animals.
Fertility Week: First major ploughing; earliest date for release of stock from byrnes.
Stasis Week: Composting of fields. Boar hunting ends.
Movement Week: Orlanth High Holy Day - Dominion Rites (festive food kept especially); sowing of early crops - barley, oats, peas, beans, vetches; harrowing of fields. First bears awaken.
Illusion Week: Pruning of fruit trees.
Truth Week: First Sowing.
FOOTNOTES
A hart is a male red deer at least four years old A hind is female red deer at least three years old A buck is an adult male fallow deer. A doe an adult female fallow deer A roebuck is a male roe deer at least five years old A rood is an adult female roe deer.
Followers of the Animal Twins assert that there is a correct season for all creatures to hunt and to be hunted The season for hunting humans runs from Death Week Earth Season to Harmony Week Storm Season. This does not mean that humans cannot defend themselves against animal attacks during this 'Two Leg Season': but rather that the killing of a human by an animal predator must be accepted without reprisal against other beasts of the killer's tribe.
2. A gowk is a cuckoo. To 'hunt a gowk' is to be a fool, or in this context, an 'April Fool'.
3. Sticklepick is an infamous Far Point dish much loved by the upland tribesfolk. It consists of chunks of fermented fish and other meats in a rancid fish sauce. It is prepared in large day pots, which are sealed and usually allowed to ferment for a good six months before opening. Sticklepick is often served with gimli, a fermented vegetable dish of cabbage, turnips, garlic and spicy herbs, prepared in a similar manner.
4. The AldaThingi (pr. AldaTing-ee) is the annual gathering of the Alda-Churi and Alone tribes to make law and inter-tribal pacts, to judge important lawsuits, and when necessary to elect a Prince and War Lord of the Far Place. In recent years, the AldaThingi has become a passive instrument of Harvar Ironfist's ambition.
5. Far Point is subject to a wide variety of unusual meteorological phenomena, including different coloured snows. After a period of white snow (water snow) there may fall blue snow (ice snow) and even black snow (darkness snow), both of which are much colder. Falls of red and yellow snow have also been recorded: these seem to be less cold than ordinary water snow. Close to Skyfall Lake, almost *anything* can fall from the sky.
JOHN HUGHES
MICHAEL RAATEROVA
End of Glorantha Digest V3 #155
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