Synkomidia 2019

Khairete!

Today, we celebrated the Synkomidia, a harvest festival to Demeter and Gaia led by Hiereos Peregrine Ursano.

As you can see by the altar, Pan was also honored as God of the month, Artemis and Heracles as the Goddess and Hero of the year, and Athena as a result of the divination done within the ritual

After we offered bread for thusia, Hiereos Timotheos did an oracle bones reading which gave the following:

“Honor Pallas Athena and all will be yours; All that you desire, and all that you have planned for, will come to you.  She will free you from bondage and relieve the ailing from pain” (Dervenis, 2014, p. 141).

Once Athena had been added to the altar, we then each drew a card from a personalized deck that contains each of the Delphic Maxims.

Theoxenia included pork, as is traditional for Demeter, roasted potatoes, and corn, as well as apple crisp, gingerbread cupcakes, and sparkling apple cider, going for an overall harvest theme with as little overlap with secular feasts scheduled for later this week.

Our upcoming events are:

December 8, 2019 – Therapaia
December 22, 2019 – Kheimonia
January 5, 2020 – Olympia
January 19, 2020 – Kthonion

Dervenis, K. (2014). Oracle Bones Divination. Destiny Books.