While the traditions of Tomesmas vary depending on location and ethnicity of the literomancers, some commonalities remain. Celebrants express gratitude for their blessings, but also perform placating rituals meant to keep the darkness at bay. Devotees also undertake fire walking in fulfillment of vows.Tomesmas is a traditional holiday observed by the literomantic houses which has recently been embraced by the rest of the world (because obviously, their beliefs have merit.) Celebrated on the Winter Solstice (or often, in modern times, the Summer Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere) the observance honours the power of The Iron Tome in both its dark and light aspects. Fire walkers believe that only those who lack faith will suffer from injuries from fire, while the faithful are spared.
Its performance is said sometimes to ensure a good harvest, other times to purify the participants a man who is accused of a crime or of uttering an untruth may be asked to undergo the ordeal of fire to prove his innocence, and if he emerges unscathed his innocence is proved. Various explanations are offered for fire walking. Instead of embers from a wood fire, there may be red-hot stones (Fiji and Mauritius), or embers may be poured over the devotee’s head in a “fire bath,” or the devotee may lash himself with a flaming torch. Sometimes the devotees or priests or oracles have to walk through a blazing log fire. It was also practiced in classical Greece and in ancient India and China.įire walking takes several forms, the most common being the practice of walking swiftly over a layer of embers spread thinly along the bottom of a shallow trench.
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