Celebrating Hrestol is little like Pentacostalism or the Quakers. The ceremony brings waves of Joy.You cry. Fall down to your knees. Thank the Creator for allowing a peek at the True Joy that awaits.
Joy creates an emotional and ecstatic release for the otherwise logical and rational Malkioni (unlike the intellectual Rokari and the inhumanly logical Brithini). Hrestolism and the cult of Joy pops up throughout Seshnela even in the late Third Age. One Rokari described it as a "plague of joyful madmen washing through the rural lands."
On the other hand, to quote a common Hrestoli proverb of the Second Age: "Why was Talor laughing? Because he had experienced Joy and knew what awaited him."
Jeff
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