Hellenuic month of Boedromion

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Hellenuic month of Boedromion

Postby Quintus Aurelius Orcus on Mon Sep 27, 2004 11:34 am

Salvete

In this month we have the famous Greater Eleusinian Mysteries in honor of the Goddesses Demeter and Persephone.
Next to each day of the month will be a festival or a deity (ies) listed to whom the day is dedicated or when the festival begins. So on the day that is dedicated to a deity or deities, one can pour libations in their honor or sacrifice in their honor. In this month we also have the Eleusinian Mysteries dedicated to Demeter and her daughter Persephone.

1) Noumenia kata Selene
2) Agathos Daimon, Niketeria
3) Athena
4) Aphrodite, Herakles, Eros and Hermes Basile
5) Epops, Genesios (festivals)
6) Artemis, Artemis Agrotera
7) Apollon
8) Poseidon and Theseus
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12) Demokratia festival
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15) Eleusina Ta Megala (festival that lasts from 15th to the 21)
16) Eleusina Ta Megala
17) Eleusina Ta Megala & epidauria
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19) Eleusina Ta Megala
20) Eleusina Ta Megala
21) Eleusina Ta Megala
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27) Nymphs, Akhelous, Alokhus, Hermes, Gaia and Athene
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29) Triakas, hene kai Nea.

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Postby Quintus Aurelius Orcus on Mon Sep 27, 2004 11:36 am

Salvete

here are the major festivals that are celebrated during this month. the other listings are sacrifices that are made on these days to the Gods.

Genesia (Boedromion 5) :
Background :


Herodotos describes the Genesia, the annual festival commemorating the dead that were known to all the Greeks. This probably refers to the commemorating the ancestors and those who had fallen in wars. One widely accepted theory says that the Genesia began as a individual, private, annual festival of commemorating the dead, but that Solon’s reforms transformed these individual displays of grief into a single, community- wide memorial day.

Modern observances:

Unlike the established families in the Greek city-states, most modern people can not point to a singly burial plot and say that there lie their ancestors. In our times, this has become almost impossible. Unstead we can commemorate the dead in homes by the shrine of the ancestors and we can visit the plots of family members who were buried or cremated.

The Greater Mysteries of Eleusis (boedromion 14-21):

For over a thousand years, the Eleusinian Mysteries offered hope to people all over the Greek-speaking world. It was by far the most famous mystery religion in the Greek and Roman world. Its initiatory religious experiences were also famous. Most people are fascinated by the mysteries of Demeter and Persephone. There are still people who are attracted to them and want to revive them. The problem lies here that we don’t know much of what happened behind closed doors as it was a norm for mystery religions to now to share anything what happened behind these doors. Drew Campbell has a good rite to use during these times. And Jennifer Reiff’s Mysteries of Eleusis are also recommended reading for this.

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