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Life Day
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Life Day was the fictional Wookiee holiday celebrated by the inhabitants of Kashyyyk. It was originally featured in The Star Wars Holiday Special with its airing on November 17, 1978.
Unlike most aspects of the normally well-crafted Star Wars universe, Life Day is utterly expedient, inserted into the show to provide a very basic goal for the heroes, and lend a bit of topical relevance to the material, which would otherwise be completely inappropriate for a television holiday special.
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The Star Wars Holiday Special gives us some insight into the customs of Life Day. Chewbacca's wife prepares a feast, gifts are exchanged between acquaintances, candles are burned ritualistically, and Wookiees put on red robes and join into groups to observe the day. Singing is involved.
Another source which gives us a view of Life Day for the Wookiees is the 1979 children's book The Wookiee Storybook. This book tells us that on this holiday, a certain fruit is sacred to the wookiees as part of their feasting ceremonies. In the 1979 Russ Manning newspaper comic strip The Kashyyyk Depths, the regular cast of A New Hope once again returned to Kashyyyk for another Life Day celebration.
In the video game Star Wars: Galaxies, players are given the opportunity to explore more thoroughly the Wookiee holiday of Life Day. Its customs are more thoroughly explored, and the player is encouraged to celebrate the holiday around the human time of December. The official site for Star Wars: Galaxies devotes an to explaining this unique feature of the game.