Thargelion 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:

• The page of the Hellenic Festival Year has been updated; more festivals are now linked to posts on the blog so you can easily gather information. I have also added a link to Elaion's PAT ritual page and I have added *'s when the listed festival has a PAT ritual uploaded for it. I haven't linked to it directly as we update the rituals every year and I'm sure I'll end up with a ton of broken links if I do.
• I am still spending every free minute on the house, so other projects are coming along slowly on the blog. I'll post up the new Google calendar soon, for at least the next six months (to December or so)

Statistics:

• A little over 560.000 views right now!
• 23.000 of those hits happened in the last month
• The top five most popular posts were: Khernips masterpost (185), Mix-tape to Athena (183), PBP: Household shrines (180), The pro's and con's of further exploring the Herculaneum (176) PBP: Symbols of Hellenismos (153)

PAT rituals for Skirophorion:

• 08/06 - Skirophorion 3 – Sacrifice to Kourotrophos, Athena Polias, Aglaurus, Zeus Polieus, Poseidon & possibly Pandrosos at Erkhia
• 17/06 - Skirophorion 12 – Skirophoria – festival in honor of Athena, Poseidon, Apollon & Demeter; the Tritopatores were worshipped at Marathon on the eve of this festival
• 19/06 - Skirophorion 14 – Dipolieia – festival in honor of Zeus Poleius
• 05/07 - Skirophorion 30 – Sacrifice to Zeus the Savior and Athena the Savior

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