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Night of Innocence, Boodog and Khorkhog

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Night of Innocence, Boodog and Khorkhog I showed up at the 420 celebration, whatever that is, thinking 420 was the annual "Night of Innocence". My mistake.It did resemble the Night of Innocence in some superficial ways. The Night of Innocence was one of my favourite holidays even as a child. Desertborn would gather at the seeqs. Adults smoked a smokeable version of The Spice in tall hookahs and water pipes, danced like dervishes all night long to celebrate our ancestors until we drop from exhaustion, then greeting the dawn, we beg our ancestors for forgiveness and pledge ourselves to quests to earn their respect or forgiveness. Due to the prevalence of The Night of Innocence, there will not be much heard from the Council of Elders. For those over 300, they usually have a lot of descendants, sometimes entire seeqs. Extracting solemn oaths and assigning quests on The Night of Innocence is the cultural backbone of a lot of seeqs. It is a time for the forgiveness of s