peace+week

Peace week is a week of peaceful and easygoing life before the planting and farming of yam begins. It is a sacred week to honor the goddess of the Earth Ani in hopes that she will generously add more food from the crop. No one works during this week and if any type of disturbance is made, that person or persons is punished. In the previous times, it is said that one would be dragged on the ground until one has died. Soon, they realized that this disturbed the peace more than helping it. It is also bad for someone to die during peace week because they would not be buried as not to ruin the earth and anger the goddess. If anyone were to die during this week, they would be thrown into the evil forest and rot there. It is said that the villages who do this are full of angry souls wanting to cause trouble -yuki actually wrote this teehee!!