Holidays

The LoompaOompas celebrate holidays just like us, but they celebrate different holidays.....very different holidays.

One of their holidays is Kropotkin. It is in our month of December. The day where nobody can be grumpy and they're very serious about it, If one of them is caught being grumpy or rude they can be jailed until the day is over so they don't ruin any other person's day. Before this holiday the LoompaOompas prepare gifts for their loved ones. Because they cannot simply go out and buy someone a gift they make the recipient something personal like a coffee bean plant wreath or a coffee candle.

Coffoola is the day all the LoompaOompas celebrate the coffee bean and make everything coffee. Coffee cake, coffee cookies and last but not least, coffee. The LoompaOompas hold a special ritual at the end of the day; they repeatedly bow down to their main god, //Caferm //ão which means //coffee brother // in Portuguese for approximately two hours//. // After all the bowing they continue celebrating with more coffee related festivities such as the bean toss when they toss raw coffee beans into another LoompaOompa's mouth. As you have seen the LoompaOompas do anything with the simple coffee bean.

Birthdays are another one of their holidays. The LoompaOompas celebrate the birthdays of their relatives and friends every four hundred days because that is how long their years are. They celebrate their birthday's almost just like we do. They will invite relatives and friends to a rented out hall which would usually cost them 75 coffee beans and an invitation to the party. At the party the invited LoompaOompas will bring gifts, food or beverage along for the Birthday LoompaOompa. When all the LoompasOompa are there then the celebration goes in full swing. There would be LoompaOompas singing and dancing. Around the end of the celebration the party hosts gather everyone around the birthday LoompaOompa and sing in Portuguese. And present the birthday LoompaOompa with all the non-food or drink gifts. After the gift opening they hand out little goody-bags as the guests leave. The man of the family will do all the cleaning up after the party.

Pubgluvza is the coming of age ceremony for the LoompaOompas. It is only for the male. It is always celebrated when the LoompaOompa has turned 80 or to them the age. Unlike most of the LoompaOompa's holidays this one is only open to relatives because of the seriousness of this particular holiday. The host will be given gifts that he will need for when he is older such as a shave that is made from the Gigamorra tree and made extremely sharp with the use of a knife made from a nickel and copper alloy. Another object that is given is a ring. The ring will be given by the parents to the receiver for in years the LoompaOompa will use this ring. The ring is one of the key parts to the //Pubgluvza //. The quality of the ring depends on the quality of life for the 80 year old's parents. If the family has a steady lifestyle then the ring will be of good quality, for example a silver ring and a decent gemstone like //a topaz //. If the parents are living the life of leisure then the ring will be made from the finest gold and topped off with a rare gemstone such as a Diamond. You are probably thinking how they pay for these things, well a good quality ring cost 250 coffee beans and a top notch ring with the works costs 300 COFFEE BEANS! Which would take a single family up to 7 harvesting seasons to accumulate?

Finally there is Ahhfuz, held every 10 years. On this day, the LoompaOompas hunt down pigs, and make their hides into carpets. At the end of the day, they bury the remaining pig's meat within the roots of the gigamorra tree. This is because the gigamorra tree's roots excrete tiny particles of acid that break down anything among them, and usually can turn it into nourishment. They hunt pigs in specifics because long ago, one of their own was attacked by a large, pig-like animal; thus, to this day, they claim their "revenge" on pigs. They even have prizes for those who slay the most pigs, such as trophies and medals. But they never hunt piglets; this is because by their logic, for every two piglets slain in one generation, that's a whole family gone in the next, and then eventually there would be no more pigs. Thus, the entire holiday would be void.