[They regard the words scratched in the dirt thoughtfully. Do deities have birthdays? Some temples preach that their gods are eternal beings with neither beginning nor end, but the monastery had always been so big on the cycles of nature: no life without death, no death without birth, no sunrise without sunset.]

...I dunno. I've never asked one. But I think... even if deities aren't born, everyone deserves a day where the people who care about them celebrate that they're here, you know?