A different name for a Birthday

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Your challenge is simple, come up with a different, but recognizable, name for a birth-day. Here's some things that one might name the day for to get your inspiration flowing

Besides being born, on your birthday, you (usually)

  • Receive your name
  • Are separated from your mother via the cutting of the umbilical cord
  • Take your first breath of outside-mom oxygen
  • Have your first feeding (often of the mother's breast milk)
  • Are counted one year older
  • Have your finger and footprints recorded
  • Are greeted by your parents
  • May be blessed by a priest or parson
  • Receive gifts and recognition from those close to you
Try using your new name in a sentence

"My ____ is coming up"
"She will celebrate her twentieth ____"
"Isn't the fifth your ____?"

Post your creative new name for a Birthday in the comments, and then tuck it away for future use in your own original culture!
 
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These are great ideas, but do they work in context?
Yes, because the word is reserved for the adults that conceived the kid rather than the kid itself.
 
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I'll give this a try.

The Emperica word for birthday is Brih Das meaning birthday or Aging Day.

Endless= Formation Day(Endless are beings made from energy and clouds that take form.)

These are just two of many. The others I have to come up with.
 
For a culture of artists, craftsmen and singers, a birthday is known as a "First Song". The child's first breath of air... and the ensuing cry is said to be the sweetest song the parents will hear.

I don't have any culture to use for this, but I hope you all like it.
 
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