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335 - 24.9.26 - 11: Michaelmas Time

Michaelmas... George and the Dragon... Autumn Equinox... Winter is Coming. But NOT in Singapore. What are our holidays? Well, there's the mooncake festival - which is tied to the moon. I wonder if there are any equinox based celebrations in Malay culture? Right, i've just been told no by DuckDuckGo's AI. Just that you can't really see the sun variation because we are so close to the equator.  Geography is once again destiny. It is more moon based - like the Mid Autumn Festival, which follows the full moon.  Here is what I eventually got to: In Malaysia and Singapore, traditional ritual life was generally more likely to be organized around landscapes and ecological relationships —sea, rivers, forests, mountains, rice fields, and ancestral places—than around the equinoxes. The pattern varies by community: Sea and river: Among Melanau, Bajau/Sama, coastal Malay, and other maritime communities, rituals could concern safe voy...