Festivals at the Sanctuary of the Crossroads
Our festival calendar is based on a reconstructed Athenian calendar and festivals from the Temple of Lagina, with some additions and revived festivals of our own!
We celebrate monthly festivals including Noumenia, Hekate’s Deipnon, and Hermeia. We also have annual festivals (with some occurring twice a year) to honour Hekate and a variety of other deities associated with our Lady of the Crossroads.
You can click on each festival to explore more information about celebrations, offerings, and intentions.
At this time, not every festival page is filled in. We endeavour to populate them as soon as possible!
This calendar isn’t the only one out there and doesn’t come close to covering all of the festivals available to us from history. Here, we cover a select few that our team can host for the Sanctuary and we encourage practitioners to develop their own calendars with celebrations that resonate with them. We also expect our Sanctuary calendar to evolve over time!
If you’d like to see a more comprehensive Athenian calendar, we suggest looking at Hellenion’s calendar. Our calendar dates are based on their hard work and collation of sources.
List of Sanctuary of the Crossroads festivals in order of appearance, by our modern (Jan-Dec) calendar.
Monthly:
- Noumenia (1st of each Athenian month)
- Hermeia (4th of each Athenian month)
- Hekate’s Deipnon (last day of each Athenian month)
Yearly:
- Lenaia (12 Gamelion)
- Theogamia (27 Gamelion)
- Lesser Mysteries (20 Anthesterion to 26 Anthesterion)
- Kleidous Agoge (30 Elaphebolion to 5 Mounuchion)
- Bendideia (19 Thargelion)
- Hermeia-Hekateia (16 Skirophorion)
- Athenian New Year (1 Hekatombaion)
- Kourotrophos (16 Metageitnion)
- Lampadeia (27 Boedromion)
- Triarchia (13 Pyanepsion)
- Kleidous Agoge (30 Pyanepsion to 5 Maimakterion)
- Poseideia-Hekateia (8 Poseideon)
