Lamfada - “The long arms of the rightful king"
Celebrated of First New Moon in Zarantryr with ceremonial renewals of oaths to Caliphate Law, this high holiday is the socio-political backbone of Hatterwol Culture affirming the Caliphate as the secular expression of Lugh's rightful role as the source of truth, light and excellence to his people.
Amildánach - “All Lights Shine as One", or "The Festival of the Lanterns"
Celebrated on the First Sar of Therendor, Amildánach is a mystical holiday promoting a pantheistic amalgamation or harmonic convergence of all detities within the light of Lugh's Embrace. While overtly a celebration of diversity, the dogma and ceremonial trappings of the holiday contain a subtle cultural appropriation leaning towards a monothetistic interpretation.
Tuatha Danann - “All The Candles, All The Hands”
Celebrated Second Week of Eyre - this week long grouping of festivities celebration the wide range of arts and trades within communities commemorating the Lugh's first arrival to the Nuada Halls to claim his seat as the ruler of the pantheon. The doorkeeper will not let him in unless he has a new skill he can use to serve the gods. He offers his services as a wright, a smith, a champion, a swordsman, a harpist, a hero, a poet, historian, a sorcerer, and a craftsman, but each time is rejected as the Courts of Nuada already have someone with that skill. When Lugh asks if they have anyone with all those skills simultaneously, the doorkeeper has to admit defeat, and Lugh joins the court and is appointed ruler of the Illuminated Court.
Fidchelstoke - "The Race of the Sun"
Celebrated at the culmination of Tuatha Danaan, this annual steeple chase tournament is based on an Equestrian sport attributed to Lugh's invention involving horses, and a lightweight ball passed between racing contestants by throwing assisted by a netted stick.
Lúnasa -"His Shining Benevolence"
First Full Moons of Lharvion, Barrakas and Rhaan, this thrice fortnightly harvest festival is a commemortaive observance of Lugh’s fighting back the spirits of the dead to preserve his followers access to the summer harvests, culminating in the Lughnasadh.
Mag Tuiread Victanta - " The Light Victorious"
Celebrated near the end of the Lúnasa on Rhaan 14, a remembrance of the Battle of Mag Tuired where Lugh killed Balor, king of the Fomorians. This holiday has been largely re-skinned as the defeat of the Fangs of the Veil, which certain anthropologists and historians have raised concern over recent iconographic drift towards depicting the antagonists of the myth as the now extinct Leddig Slatte ethinicity
Lughnasadh - "The Alltogether Games"
Celebrated as a culmination of the Lúnasa Cycle on the first Full Moon of Sypheros, the Caliphate hosts a grand competition of all forms of sport and athletics. This, the most popular holiday of the Hatterwollian people, has become a signficant economic and cultural driver for the nation as the Caliphate will change the location of the festival to various cities of the nation driving significant commerce and prestige to local markets.
Failinis -"The Blessing of the Hounds"
Celebrated on the 20th of Vult, this holiday is devoted to Lugh’s companion hound Failinis. Across the nation, local temples perform blessings of companion animal's, and in certain metropolises, breeders of distinct lines of animal husbrandry have invented standards by which their highest bred animals compete for distinction and high honor. While the holiday and tradition is demonstratively canine in it's history, later developemnts have led to the championing of all animal husbandry including equine, feline, aviary and in the Appenruck region, a species of domesticated rodent renown for it's long silky fur.