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Gods of Ithia: Gai Hoi the Daykeeper.

Gai Hoi. Goddess of Festivals, Solstice, Holidays, and Calendars. 

Known as Gai Hoi, The Spring Dancer, The Changing of Seasons, The Festive, The Triumph, The Feastholder, The Daykeeper, The Lady in Red, and the Keeper of the White. Daughter of Sun Jay, Aqel’Iath, Eshtur Mil, and Halm Ior. 

Her Symbol is the Circle of Life – A stone circle with the Ithian Calendar surrounded by branches, dead in the Winter, blooming in Spring, lively in Summer, and dying in the Fall. 

Gai Hoi is all forbidding beauty all the wonders of youth, the dancing of spring with first loves, she is the beauty of cultures, of feasts for the hungry, all pale white and blood red. The branches rise from behind her head of coal black hair like the arms of a thousand worshippers crying out in terrified relief at a sunrise somehow delayed. She is the drink of those dying of thirst the fevered dream of ritualized ceremonies fueled by the poisons that expand the mind. Blooming pink flowers rain down around her forming a carpet for her to walk.  

Gai Hoi is a stoic deity taking her ceremonies and duties seriously. She gives structure and relief between the seasons of her parents, having been formed by the blood truce of Summer, Spring, Winter, and Fall. She leads people in worship of all the beauty this world still holds. She grants her divine servants the knowledge of rituals, duties, and lore behind every holiday big and small, the power to change the weather to fit a holiday and impose upon others ecstasy and wonder. 

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