Kore's Share

Kore's Share is a ritualistic burning of crop in praise of the goddess Kore that she see favour in the recent harvest, show leniency in the coming winter, and offer bounty in the year after.

History

The practice is believed to have originated in Léchelle. After the Reformation, it spread via trade routes across land and sea as standardized pantheon cultivation took hold.

Execution

The ritualistic burning of crop is not done until the harvest has been completed.

Components & Tools

A selection of the harvest is taken to be burned upon a pyre. The priests of the Cult of Kore stipulate that the quantity of which is burned does not matter. Whether it is a plate or a bushel or a bale so long as a part of the harvest is offered, so will the goddess be pleased. They also stipulate that the quality need no matter, either. Many farmers often use poor or contaminated crop for use in the ritual. They, as well as Kore, recognize the need to not waste more crop than is necessary so that none go hungry.

Still, there are many that take the quality and quantity very seriously. Those who make it part of a festival might hold competitions for the largest item of produce grown.

So long as the harvest has been completed, a selection is presented after high sun and before dusk, it is burned in the open, and Kore's name invoked is all that matters

Participants & Key Roles

Whether it is done on an individual farm, home, or as part of a whole community does not matter. Some communities make a festival out of the process while others merely observe it in quiet reverence. Others merely do so as matter of course less they anger the goddess or be seen as disrespectful by their neighbours.

Observance

Yearly toward the end of autumn is traditional of many locations, but anytime when a harvest is completed as certain crops have different growth periods throughout the year.