#Jāņi

[metsaahenki]

happy līgo! ☀️🔥

[scaarahyde]

Happy summer solstice/Jāņi/Līgo!!🌾

[jocollins]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski Characters: Derek Hale, Stiles Stilinski Additional Tags: Midsummer, Excited Stiles Stilinski, Confused Derek Hale, Nostalgia, nostalgic Stiles Stilinski, Husbands, Domestic Fluff, Domestic, Traditions, Culture Shock, Cultural Differences, Fluff, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Family Feels, Dash of Humor, Happy, No Angst Summary:

Stiles is hit with nostalgia about celebrating midsummer, so he decides to celebrate it with Derek, introducing him to all the best traditions.

[kaul1]

peldam

[akwardmarthy]

happy summer solstice (aka Līgo and Jāņi) to all my Latvian queers ONLY!!!

Straights: gtfo

[vern-a]

can i ask about your solstice celebration if you dont mind? :0

oh, heres my favourite festa junina fact! -> it originally came to brazil from portugal, who celebrated it as a summer celebration. problem is, unlike in portugal, brazilian summer is from december to march and winter from june to august, so what started out as a summer solstice thing ended up as a winter solstice one!

Ooo! Thats very interesting! We celebrate both winter and summer solstice actually. The name "solstice" in latvian literally means "sun-turn(ing)", meaning "when the day turns longer than the night" and vice versa in winter. The common name is "Jāņi" for summer.

I really love the outfits for festa junina! Theyre so vibrant and airy! (Our folk outfits are made of wool, even for summer. Id love to wear a festa junina outfit <3)

Essentially Jāņi a celebration for welcoming the Sun and welcoming summer!

Our festivities include getting drunk, waiting for the sunrise and burning many things (bonfire, sun gate (big gate built of hay bales), barrel on a long stick, and my favourite - a wheel wrapped in cloth and soaked in petrol that you set alight and send down a hill to chase). These days people go light on the burning, and just do a small bonfire or grill. However, no one skips out on the tradition of hopping over the bonfires. Ive hopped a grill before.

We enjoy a lot of food (mostly grilled meats), and make wreaths of flowers (each flower has a meaning, and men usually get big wreaths made of oak branches to manifest strength!). Its also a good practice to tie small birch trees to house posts and hang around mountain ash branches to ward off evil. Another purification ritual is burning last years flower wreaths in the fire.

The whole process is very spiritual. Since i grew up on a farm and our family friends are nuts about the spiritualism, i got to experience the big fun parts growing up :D (still do!). But nowdays, realistically it's more about families and friends gathering, making wreaths and enjoying some grilled goods and beer.

Theres honestly so much, i could go on forever! Theres our beloved pagan gods, theres making flower wreaths for your cattle, saunas, rolling in morning dew and so on. Hope this was informative :D I really love talking about it, thank you so much for the ask <3 <3 <3

edit: I FORGOT THE SONGS AND THE DANCES!! Big culture thing!! My favourite thing right next to the burning <3

[jupiter-reimagined]

... a thought just came to me. i already know im latvian-ifying the fuck outta these poor guys, but. hear me out. elias and dominic celebrating jāņi. i need to see one of them jumping over a live fire and then realizing that oh fuck. theyre ON fire.... or with the oak branch crowns... or regular flower crowns... staying up until the sun rises and just maybe enjoying life a little. them looking for ferns...

[lookninjas]

Happy Jāņi Day! Go hang out with an oak tree if you can.

[tdutb]

srry i disappeared i was making stuff out of chemistry homework

yeah uhh that is semi-true. was mentally preparing for the only day im patriotic.

[luluxa]

in Latvia, on 23-24th of June, we celebrate Līgo and Jāņi - midsummer and Jan's day. And every Jan is required to wear an oak wreath for it 🥰

[uupiic]

Kids these days with their vatsaps and tweety birds and diskords and tamblers have no idea how good they have it.

It used to be that when you sent an SMS on this night it'd arrive literal hours later, depending on where the recipient was and where you were :')

Oh gods, I still remember when we had to call up the operator and request a call to the other side of Latvia when I was a kid. Vecgada Vakars was NOT the best time to do that :')

[siins]

My piece I did a little while ago for the @objectheadzine Historical Fiction 2023 zine! :^)

Inspired by traditional Līgo/Jāņi celebrations!

[l1atena1]

My contribution to Sonic's 32nd birthday✨

The Oak Leaf crown in my culture represents masculinity and strenght.

For those who are named after the celebrations (Līgo and Jāņi) and those who have birthdays on those dates wear special crowns :)

[skyafied]

PRINCESS HEAVY IS SO BEAUTIFUL PLEASE DRAW MORE OF HIM

AY DAWG YOU DONT HAVE TO TELL ME TWICE [ also thank you so much what the hell I'm so glad you liked him!! ;-; ]

They are getting ready for Jāņi :') [ignore my pathetic excuse for a flower crown on Medic LMAO]

I am not Latvian myself, but thank you @beeengie for telling me all about this beautiful holiday! It was like a month ago but still-

silly bonus sketches btw

[kaul1]

jāņi

[upmala]

jāņi (midsummer night), 2024