The Climb of Hoar
The Feast of the Lawgiving · The Pilgrim Ascent of Mount Hoar
The Climb of Hoar is the festival commemorating the Lawgiving on Mount Hoar — when Borën ascended the holy mountain through cloud and aurora-fire and brought down the Hundred Laws graven in clear ice. It falls in the festal year a set count of weeks after the Crossing, as the Lawgiving followed the deliverance — the feast of covenant and the gift of the Law.
Observance
Where they can, the faithful keep the day by a pilgrim ascent of a high place, “climbing toward the Cold,” reading the Laws at the summit and renewing the covenant. It is also kept as a harvest-of-firstfruits and, in the The Latter Frost, as the feast on which the church remembers the First Hollownight — the new Law “breathed as frost upon the heart” (see Jeral). Booths of snow and branches are raised in some rites.