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Maimakterion 28 Sacred to all Chthonian deities.
Maimakterion 29 Sacred to all Chthonian deities.
Maimakterion 30 Dark Moon—Sacred to Hecate and all Chthonian deities.
Poseideon (greater)—December—November 17—December 15
Poseideon actually begins on the sixth new moon after Summer Solstice
Poseideon 1 Noumenia—Celebration of the new moon.
Poseideon 2 Sacred to Agathos Daimon.
Poseideon 3 Sacred to the Three Graces and Athena.
Poseideon 4 Sacred to Aphrodite, Hermes, Hercules, Eros.
Poseideon 5 Plerosia—Festival in honor of Zeus.
Poseideon 6 Sacred to Artemis.
Poseideon 7 Sacred to Apollo.
Poseideon 8 Poseidea—Festival honoring Poseidon.
Poseideon 14 Lesser Dionysia—Festival honoring Dionysus. A procession is led by
men with large wood phallus images symbolic of masculine fertility. They
are followed by women carrying baskets (symbolic of the womb) filled
with the feast preparations. After the feast was a masquerade dance.
Full moon celebration.
Poseideon 16 Sacred to Zeus.
Poseideon 26 Haloa—Festival honoring Demeter, Dionysus, Poseidon, and Persephone.
A procession with food and offerings followed by a feast. It is customary
for the feast to contain breads and cakes shaped like reproductive organs.
At the traditional Greek celebration, the evenings entertainment is in
the order of sky clad women taunting each other with sexual innuendo
and insults designed to stir the lust in their male audience.
Poseideon 27 Sacred to all Chthonian deities.
Poseideon 28 Sacred to all Chthonian deities.
Poseideon 29 Dark Moon—Sacred to Hecate and all Chthonian deities.
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