Have We Forgotten Why Wookiees Ponder Their Orbs on Life Day?

What was once a Star Wars joke is a to the full armed and operating marketing event . Today is Life Day , which means that from its theme car park to its stores , Disney will find a mode to sell you as many Wookiee - affiliatedpieces of merchandise as potential : specially those sick risque orbs . But what were they even for ? Have we forgotten what Life Day was about in the first place ?

First shew in the infamousStar Wars Holiday Special — hence its decades as a derogatory in - joke , a admonisher of one of the most routinely clown around - upon pieces of Star Wars medium ever made — Life Day is pitched as a Wookiee hybrid ofThanksgiving and Christmas . There ’s a tree , there ’s syndicate gatherings , there ’s shiny decoration , fate of waffling about love and harmony . There ’s also , appropriately , a spiritual rootage that has more and more been pushed away in favor of a non - secular , exploitably merchandisable commercial-grade event . sprightliness 24-hour interval Funko Pop , anyone ?

The Life Day Orb is arguably the most essentially spiritual aspect of Life Day in Wookiee civilization . The vacation is one of celebration , like our own Christmas and Thanksgivings , but it ’s primarily one of remembrance — a sentence to think over on those who have already evanesce on as much as it is lionize the living in the here and now . In both the boom Universe and Disney ’s current canon , the Life Day Orb is meant to shine a starscape that Wookiees believe to be the afterlife , part of a belief system that involve the spirits of at rest life walk on into the wiz themselves . Aside from grace the wroshyr Tree of Kashyyyk during festivity , Life Orbs are the center of kinfolk gather , both as decoration and the crux of appeal rituals by Wookiee families , a silent pause to remember lost erotic love ones .

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It ’s perhaps fit then that the Orb is the well-off window to a world of Life Day products . It’sa bauble , it’sa mug , it ’s alight - up globe . It’sadorned on thyroxin - shirts , forge on lush toys , and providesphoto opportunitiesat Disney ’s Star Wars dry land , Galaxy ’s Edge . Perhaps even more so than the ruby traditional robes of Life Day ( nowavailable as loungewear ! ) , the Life Day Orb is the symbol of the vacation as a corporate product . And if we ’re going to make Life Day as much of a holiday as Christmas , there ’s probably nothing best than taking one of its most apparitional vista and having the engines of capitalist economy become it into a filed down trinket . Happy Life Day !

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