Maimakterion updates

On the day of the Hene kai Nea, I post a monthly update about things that happened on the blog and in projects and organizations related to it. I will also announce Elaion's coming PAT rituals.

Changes to the blog:

• Last month, I overhauled the blog. As per your request, I have fixed the tags and added the dates back onto the posts (no idea where those had gone in the first place...). If you still see something amiss or missing, let me know!
• The Hellenic Festival Year page has been updated

Statistics:

• A little over 450.000 views right now
• 18.000 of those hits happened in the last month
• The top five most popular posts were: PBP: Symbols of Hellenismos (251), Question Collections post 30 (107), On the binding of hair (96), Ancient Hellenic honey cakes (85), PAT ritual announcement: Sacrifice to Zeus Epoptes (78) 

PAT rituals for Poseideon:

• 17/12 - Poseideon 5 - Plerosia - festival at Attic deme of Myrrhinus
• 20/12 - Poseideon 8 - Poseidea - festival in honor of Poseidon
• 22/12 - Poseideon 10 - Rustic or Lesser Dionysia in honor of Dionysus
• 28/12 - Poseideon 16 - Sacrifice to Zeus Horios at Erchia
• 07/01 - Poseideon 26 - Haloa - fertility festival in honor of Dionysus and Demeter.

Anything else?
This month's Pandora's Kharis charity is Animal Defenders International. Animal Defenders International (ADI) is a major international campaigning group, with offices in London, Los Angeles and Bogota, who lobby to protect animals on issues such as animals in entertainment and their use in experiments; worldwide traffic in endangered species; factory farming; pollution and conservation. The deadline to donate is December 12, 2015. You can do so by using the 'PayPal option to the side of the Pandora's Kharis website or by donating directly to baring.the.aegis@gmail.com. Thank you in advance! Join us on Facebook if you would like to pitch a cause for next month!

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