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Happy National Thomas Day!

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Keeper Name Days

in some countries, there’s a tradition called Name Days. it basically means having a designated day for each given name, and it’s celebrated sort of like birthdays (but it usually isn’t as important, it depends on how the person wants to celebrate)

so, since we already have fanon Keeper birthdays, here you have a list of what day the Keeper Crew would celebrate their Name Days on

Sophie – September 20

Fitz – February 25

Biana – November 6

Dex – February 9

Marella – September 8

Keefe – November 26

Linh – September 2

Tam – July 4

Wylie – May 28

#so we can be like 'ohh look it's [insert name here] day today' on certain days of the year #sophie foster #fitz vacker #biana vacker #dex dizznee #marella redek #keefe sencen #linh song #tam song #wylie endal #name days #keeper of the lost cities #kotlc #in some cases i had to go with similar names

Okay, so in addition to the time telling differences we talked about earlier, I have just learned that y’all in the US don’t have name days?!

For those confused, this is from Wikipedia: “ A name day is a tradition in some countries in Europe, Latin America, and Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox countries in general. It consists of celebrating a day of the year that is associated with one's given name. The celebration is similar to a birthday.”

It’s my name day today and I mentioned it to Mick and she was very confused! :D

Also, my name day falls on Women’s week which is a week that consists of only women’s names. Funnily enough, my friend group from uni (there are four of us) all have our name days on Women’s week. ^^

#personal #kinda #the more you know #just thought I'd share #name days

I have never played Overwatch, but I found it neat that it’s Torbjörn’s name day on March 9th.

#Overwatch #torbjorn #name days #oni makes noises

I’ve never heard of name days before, but I hope you have a happy one. Is there a list somewhere that tells you when your name day is? What if you have an unusual name that’s not on it? I’m very curious to learn more about this. :)

The day has been good (despite my grumpy wake up, lol), thank you!

Yes, there is a list and also basically all the calendars here are printed with the names for corresponding days as seen on the picture below. Though, this one doesn’t show all the names. They usually only print the most popular ones but you can deduce from it what other names belong on that day because they tend to be similar. For example, for today the 20th it’s only showing the more popular name Reetta not my name: Reeta. (Yes, I’m salty about this. And also I keep getting called Reetta and it’s f*cking annoying. Sorry, mini rant over.)

The names and dates are decided by the University of Helsinki’s Almanac Office. They review the list every year or so and add names that have become more popular and take away names that are not used anymore. My son’s name was added when he was two years old.

If you have an unusual name you can choose what day you celebrate on. Usually you choose one that already has some similar names on it.

From wikipedia: There are also many traditional beliefs attached to various name days, especially involving the weather and the appropriate times to perform seasonal agricultural tasks such as planting some particular crop. For example, there is a saying that “Jaakko (James) casts a cold rock into the water”, meaning that on Jaakko’s day, July 25, the waters start getting colder, which is not far from true on average.

I hope this enlightened the name day thing for you! ^^

#lovely anon #name days