I’ve been meaning to ask this:
On the EctoComp itch site, among the suggestions for themes:
- Or any other solstice festival around the world, folk horror or not.
Last I checked, there were two solstices a year, and neither falls anywhere near the 31st of October. Perhaps EctoComp’s connection to the Old Ones warps solar alignment?
Yep, probably my own misunderstanding of how halloween work.
I thought Halloween was celebrated around harvest time, and that the celebrations were related to the changing of the seasons. If any expert could clarify this, it would help us improve the conceptual basis of ECTOCOMP for future years.
Halloween falls somewhere between the autumn equinox and winter solstice. It’s meant to mark the end of the harvest and the beginning of “dark days”. It is related to seasonal changes in a way. Nowhere near a solstice though.
Yeah, that line from the EctoComp page is perfectly on point if it just replaces “solstice” with “equinox”.
The food is stored away in the grain silos, the animals are brought down from their summer pastures, and everyone is huddling down to prepare for the coming darkness. So @Ruber_Eaglenest , you’re absolutely right that it has something to do with the seasons, and with the alignment of the sun.
Thank you!
Er… as Naarel says, Halloween is near the middle of the space between the autumn equinox (September 22-23 usually) and winter solstice (December 21-22) so it’s not near either of them… There’s a nice table of both at Equinox - Wikipedia
Yeah, you’re right. “Halfway on point” ?
i’d say change it to “harvest festival”. gets the actual point across
Changing solstice to harvest festival would produce
though? :P
Idk, maybe it is often more accurate these days to say that the festival is celebrating the harvest festival rather than celebrating the harvest directly…
Don’t make me write a dożynki game…