Feast of the Unicorn

Yay SCA! Oh come on! You knew it was going to come back. I can only avoid talking about it for so long. Alright, so last year my mother ran an event (one of our weekend gatherings). It was the third Feast of the Unicorn! Each year we would choose a different culture and their unicorn. The final Feast of the Unicorn was based around the Middle East and their version of the unicorn. This unicorn was a rather angry creature and was only soothed by the singing of a special bird.Mom was really excited to be researching the Middle East. Some of our members were slightly hesitant, but we pretty much ignored them. Our family believes that we have no right to fear something we do not understand. This belief may have caused my tremendous fear of the dark, but at least I am not afraid of much else.During the event the fighting activities (the armored combat and fencing) were based mostly on the unicorn. I did not actually visit the archery field to see what they were up to. I was the one who gave the little 'uns something to do. The few children that showed up had to find one of the many stuffed animal rats I had hidden around the site. When they came back to me I would give them a small set of coloring pages I had made that told a very small amount of information about a temple in India called the Karni Mata.The Karni Mata is a temple for rats. The people who run the temple believe that when they die they become a rat before returning to the cycle of birth and rebirth.We had set up many places inside to lounge about. As the day drew to a close we had a fire performance outside and then we moved inside where it was warm. In the middle of the large building a circle of drummers, mostly doumbecks, started to form. There was a little dancing and then everyone settled down to enjoy the company of friends.