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Fillange per Jungi was the Specks of Rilonate Forgotten Day of Atonement. They knew that in their past there was a definite day set aside as a Dayof Atonement, but it was forgotten before King Rod ever took over the position of King Rilonate. At least they knew there once was a Day of Atonement, butthe Specks could not remember what they need atonement for. After King Rod took the throne, a speck named Hefamut, during the demolition of a shoe foundry,found a vague historical reference to a Day of Atonement called the Fillange per Jungi. The king's advisors advised the king to declare a new Fillange perJungi and to have the marketing department think of some fun things to do on it. No one could think of anything they needed atonement for, so the day is mostlyremembered for the annual feast or for the dancing thing.

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The Specks of Rilonate determined when one day was over and a new day had begun by having the Day Determiner hold the Determiner Stone out at herside at arms-length. When that day's Day Determiner could no longer hold her arm up, the day was declared done and the next Day Determiner took up the stone.Being Day Determiner was a prestigious honor, but no she-speck was allowed to do it more than once a year.

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Rilonate specks married in threes... Two grooms and a bride, or two brides and a groom. In either case the spouse with the two counterspouses hadto alternate every day, being spouse to one, and then the next day to the other. Each Speck year the sequence is renewed, starting with the spouse who wasshorted by one day the previous year. The marriage ceremony of Rilonate was short and simple: The three specks went before the king on the assigned day oftheir marriage appointment; each stated their vows, which consisted only of a promise to abide by the custom of spouse alternating, and a promise to neverget ugly. The vows were repeated in this way: The king said to each speck, in-turn, Do you, ___, promise to never get ugly? To which each responded in turn,I do. Then, in the case of one groom and two brides, for example, the king said to the groom speck,

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Repeat after me. I, ___, take you, ___, to be one of my wedded wives, and you, ___, to be the other of my wedded wives.

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Annulment usually stemmed from one of the two brides or one of the two grooms (in the case of one bride and two grooms) feeling slighted because he/shewas not the first one named in the vow. Divorce usually stemmed from one spouse being cheated out of his or her fair share of marriage days on leap year, whenan extra day went to the spouse who then renewed the new year's sequence!