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[realists]

[ simple text, straightforward and easy: ]

What are the birthday traditions on your home planets?

[ jyn hasn't celebrated a birthday in something like... fifteen years so to say she's out of practice would be a gross understatement. she tells herself this is cultural anthropology, her mother would be proud. TIME TO LEARN, time to attempt to live like a normal human being... ]

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[realists]

I didn't stay on planets very long usually, not long enough to adapt to birthday traditions. I did witness a few from afar.

There's a tradition on one planet that the person whose birthday it is buys everyone in the bar a round of drinks. That might have been the owners way to get more credits but I never saw anyone complain.

[nobasisinfact]

I've heard of that as well.

Many children enjoy cake and present on their birthday.

[realists]

Cake doesn't seem as special when you can buy yourself and eat it everyday.

[nobasisinfact]

You can make anything special by believing it is.

[realists]

That sounds like the drivel you tell a toddler when they find out that their stories aren't real.

[nobasisinfact]

It is. That doesn't make it any less true.

Just like something being special to one person doesn't make it that way for everyone.

[realists]

[ rolls her eyes to jupiter ]

Being special doesn't make it real.

[nobasisinfact]

No, it doesn't.

[realists]

It's stupid to let children believe in fairytales.

[nobasisinfact]

Agreed.

[He had always been rather adamant about telling Charlie the truth about Santa and the Easter Bunny.]

[realists]

I'm not going to believe cake is special simply because it is for a birthday.

[nobasisinfact]

Then don't

[realists]

Where did the tradition come from? Cake, not lying to children.

[nobasisinfact]

In my world it dates back thousands of years as a way to honor the Green goddess Artemis. The practice later became commercialized the German tradition of Kinderfesten brought about the idea of placing a candle for each year the child had lived as well as one for the years to come became commonplace.

[realists]

[ THSI IS THE GOOD CONTENT SHE WAS LOOKING FOR!!!!!! bless this person. ]

The Green goddess?

[nobasisinfact]

[If she's looking for useless information than the one to talk to was Richard. It was what he did. In fact, this was incredibly comfortable for him. Like an old coat put on that's still warm from the last time he had worn it.]

In my world some religions are multitheistic. Ancient Greece and Rome happened to have societies based heavily on their beliefs in their respective gods, or pantheons.

The term 'The Green goddess' is simply a long way of addressing the Greek Goddess Artemis' name. She is one of the goddesses in the Greek pantheon. She presides over the hunt, wild animals, the wilderness, childbirth, virginity and is known as the protector of young girls. She was also believed to bring and relieve disease in women

[realists]

How do you preside over virginity?

[nobasisinfact]

I can't say that I know.