community calendar project 2026 directed by cerinil
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A gen for the Community calendar project over Discord for SEPTEMBER not AUGUST. CERI, READ THE GOD DAMN TEXT ON BOLD.
I wanted to generate a festivity for said month and there wasn't more book related days for September. But China is celebrating something nice this 26th September, mid-autumn festival

The Chinese have celebrated the harvest during the autumn full moon since the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BCE)

That is ooooooooold, surprised it survived until today.

The Zhuang people, for example, have an ancient fable saying the Sun and Moon are a couple and the stars are their children, and when the Moon is pregnant, it becomes round, and then becomes crescent after giving birth to a child.

Can you imagine a new star appearing in the sky each month? That's a cool concept.

The myths associated with Chang'e explain the origin of Moon worship during this day. One version of the story is as follows, as described in Lihui Yang's Handbook of Chinese Mythology:

In the ancient past, there was a hero named Hou Yi who was excellent at archery. His wife was Chang'e. One year, the ten suns rose in the sky together, causing great disaster to the people. Yi shot down nine of the suns and left only one to provide light. An immortal admired Yi and sent him the elixir of immortality. Yi did not want to leave Chang'e and be immortal without her, so he let Chang'e keep the elixir. However, Peng Meng, one of his apprentices, knew this secret. So, on the fifteenth of August in the Chinese lunisolar calendar, when Yi went hunting, Peng Meng broke into Yi's house and forced Chang'e to give the elixir to him. Chang'e refused to do so. Instead, she swallowed it and flew into the sky. Since she loved her husband and hoped to live nearby, she chose the moon for her residence. When Yi came back and learned what had happened, he felt so sad that he displayed the fruits and cakes Chang'e liked in the yard and gave sacrifices to his wife. People soon learned about these activities, and sympathetic to Chang'e, they also participated in these sacrifices with Yi.

"when people learned of this story, they burnt incense on a long altar and prayed to Chang'e, now the goddess of the Moon, for luck and safety. The custom of praying to the Moon on Mid-Autumn Day has been handed down for thousands of years since that time."

Seems like this is the story everyone liked in the end to celebrate the festival. And of course there's an elixir of immortality involved in it. What's up with chinese mythology and elixirs of immortality? I guess it's better than Greek mythology and having a horny thunder god raping everyone lmaooo.
Remember that story your mother told you about that sexy plumber who came to fix a leak before you were born? that was Zeus.

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