Panaia/Dendraia 2018

Khairete!

Today, we celebrated the Panaia,

and part 1 of the Dendraia.

We each took turns reading prayers to Pan from In Praise of Olympus and sections of the Homeric Hymn to Pan.

As is customary, Hiereos Timotheos did a reading for the Temenos using the oracle bones.  What came up was Dionysus Bassareus:

“One lone six, one three, and three ones fall:
Be in no hurry to harvest the buds of the vine, nor the summer figs,
nor should you prepare your [fishing] weights for the line,
for you will lie heavy in the waves.
Your obligation lies elsewhere, and it eludes you.

Our thusia was freshly-baked bread, and theoxenia was spicy lamb couscous, herbed cheese and olives, carrot salad, kale salad, and cornbread, with desserts of sticky buns and apple pie and libations of retsina, and both hard and soft cider.

We then decorated Pan’s tree while people received individual readings.

Our next festivals will be

Oracle of the Bulls, led by Hiereos Terentios online, 11/16 at noon EST.

Synkomidia, a harvest festival to Demeter and Gaia, 11/25 at 2pm EST.

Until then, may the blessings of the Gods be with you!