Show threadErotic Mythology 💘Feb 13, 2025

@pagan @antiquidons The last day of the #Anthesteria is called #Chytroi or #Khýtroi, 'The Pots'. It's a festival of the dead where fruit or pulse is offered to the souls of the dead, who are then bidden to depart, and to #Hermes Chthonios, who should guide them back to the underworld. No one is supposed to eat the pottage, which is food of the dead. A rehearsal to select the players for the City Dionysia also takes place on this day.

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Show threadErotic Mythology 💘Feb 11, 2025

Read Li Österberg's comic "#Anthesteria" in full here:
https://theiamania.thecomicseries.com/comics/454

And follow her on Tumblr if you like:
https://theia-mania-comics.tumblr.com/

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Show threadErotic Mythology 💘Feb 11, 2025

Today we celebrate the second day of #Anthesteria: #Choës or #Khoaí, 'The Pouring'. The merrymaking continues with dressing up as Dionysos' entourage and going for a round of visits to friends and neighbours for drinks and drinking contests to see who could drain their cups the most rapidly. Less merry is the pouring of libations on the family tombs. Athens' ritual queen, the basilinna, was wed to the god Dionysos, possibly a reenactment of Ariadne's marriage to #Dionysos.

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Erotic Mythology 💘Feb 10, 2025

Today is the #Pithoigia, the first day of the Athenian #Anthesteria festival in honour of #Dionysos. It lasts three days, from the 11th to the 13th of the month of Anthesterion.

The Anthesteria festival celebrates the beginning of Spring and in particular the maturing of the wine stored at the previous vintage, whose pithoi (storage-jars) were now ceremoniously opened. Spring flowers decorate the house and drinking vessels.

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Show threadErotic Mythology 💘Mar 5, 2023

@antiquidons @mythology @pagan Keres are goddesses of violent death but possibly a term for the dead souls too. The saying "Through the door, Keres, it's no longer Anthesteria!" was also used proverbially for someone who kept asking for favours.

If you want a fun and entertaining introduction to the #Anthesteria (with some brief strap-on action no less!), I highly recommend the comic Anthesteria by Li Österberg:

https://theiamania.thecomicseries.com/comics/454

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Show threadErotic Mythology 💘Mar 5, 2023
@antiquidons @mythology @pagan On the third day of the #Anthesteria, Χύτροι, (Khýtroi), "The Pots", fruit or pulse stew was offered to #Hermes Chthonios, Hermes of the #Underworld. No one else ate the pottage because it was considered food of the dead, although the very poor might have dared out of duress, just like they would eat the offerings to #Hekate otherwise considered to be taboo.
At the end of the festival, Athenians would shout “Through the doors, Keres, it’s no longer Anthesteria!”.
Erotic Mythology 💘Mar 4, 2023

It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍷

#Dionysos and his wife #Ariadne with a satyr and their pet panther on a mirror case relief from Ionian culture.
Dated ca. 3rd century BCE, Hermitage Museum, Petersburg

If the basilinna felt like Ariadne when she ritually married Dionysos at the #Anthesteria?

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Show threadErotic Mythology 💘Mar 4, 2023
The basilinna, wife of the Archon basileus and ceremonial Queen of Athens was ritually married to #Dionysos. How physical the union was remains a matter of discussion, but it may have involved intercourse. She was assisted by the gerarai, 14 Athenian matrons chosen by her husband, who were sworn to secrecy.
I have considered writing an erotic short about this ritual, of course with the real Dionysos showing up 😏
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Show threadErotic Mythology 💘Mar 4, 2023
On the second day of the #Anthesteria called Χοαί (Khoaí), "The Pouring", vinous merrymaking continued. People dressed up as #Dionysos' entourage and went on a round of visits to their friends and neighbours. Drinking contests to see who could drain their cups the most people dressed themselves gaily, some in the figures of Dionysus's entourage, and paid a round of visits to their acquaintances. Drinking contests were held to see who could drain their cups the most rapidly.
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Erotic Mythology 💘Mar 3, 2023
Today is the first day of the three-day #Anthesteria festival, the Festival of Flowers. It celebrates the arrival of Spring, new wine, and the dead. On the first day, called Pithoigia (Opening the Jars), the ancient Athenians would crown children who were three years old with wreaths of the first flowers of the year and gifted them their first own cup. The new batch of wine was opened, pouring libations to #Dionysos with prayers that the wine should be beneficial and harmless. Then it was drunk.