This is a selection from the festival calendar of the Eranos Agriotheios in Eugene, Oregon. Some are ancient and some are part of our new tradition. Some are set on the lunar calendar, and others on the modern, solar-based calendar. For the former, modern dates are also given - these will change slightly each year.

2010 January 27 (Gamelion 12): Lenaia - Reawakens the vegetation, and Dionysos, after the long months of winter. Presentation of liknon with phallus, procession through town, singing, hymns. Feast, dancing. February 20 (Anthesterion 7): Manteia – Begin high-seat oracular sessions again, welcoming of Apollon back to Delphi. Flowers. Lavish breakfast theoxenia. Samos muscat wine. February 24-26 (Anthesterion 11-13): Anthesteria – Festival of Flowers. First day is Pithoigia, "Opening of the Jars". To open festival, walk around town making libations of local wine, collecting flowers as offering. Shared feast in the evening. Large bouquet of flowers as offering. Grapes, and other fruit. Second day is Khoes, “Cups”. Swings. Go to a liminal place and drink silently in honor of Orestes. Basilinna is wedded to Dionysos at night. Third day, Khutroi, “Pots”. Go to cemetery, kolyva offering and wine/honey/milk left for Hermes Pyschopompos and the dead. February 28 (Anthesterion full moon): Limnad Numphaia – At a liminal time of year, ritual in the wetlands, create/tend shrine, spend time in their presence. March 8 (Anthesterion 23): Diasia - The festival of Zeus Meilikhios, the chthonic Zeus who appears as a snake. Offerings made of cakes shaped like animals, grains, and other fertility foods. The whole offering is burnt to propitiate him. Purification after Anthesteria. Renew contents of Ktesios jar. March 20: Spring Equinox – Persephone ascends. Spring cleaning, altars. Flowers, rebirth. Paint eggs, hide them, make wishes. March 21: Theoxenia Delphinia – In the Delphic month of Theoxenios, a Greek-themed banquet with invitations, table settings, Greek liquors, food, etc. All the gods/daimones of Delphi: Apollon, Hermes, Dionysos, Athene, Poseidon, Pan, Korykian Nymphs, Zeus, Ge, Trophonios. Watch movies about Greece, other Greek games/activities. April 28 (Mounikhion full moon): Dryad Numphaia –Ritual in the woods on Skinner Butte, create/tend shrine, spend time in their presence. Also make elaphoi for Artemis, other offerings for her. May 8 (start of second weekly farmers market): Ampelia - Day of the Vine – for Dionysos’ vegetative epiphanies. Only eat vegetables/fruits all day. Decorate with vines, flowers, and all kinds of plants. Lots of entheogens. May 20 (Thargelion 7): Thargelia – Purification by means of pharmakoi. Write on them the things to be rid of, bring them to the periphery and burn them. Offering of the thargelos porridge with bay leaves. June 21: Summer Solstice – For all local daimones. Daytime ecstatic rites. June 26 (Skiraphorion full moon): Naiad Numphaia – Leave offerings at various streams, then end at the river, create/tend shrine. Spend time in their presence. Floating candles. September 11 (Eugene Celebration Weekend): Thalusia – Thank Demeter (& Dionysos) for harvest, especially grain harvest. Bake loaf of bread, make meal from farmer’s market produce, offer local beer. September 22: Autumn Equinox - Persephone descends. Ritual for her as Queen of the Underworld. Pomegranates and wine. Fall cleaning, altars. September 23 (Boedromion full moon): Oread Numphaia: Go to the mountains, oreibasia, create/tend shrine, spend time in their presence. Also offerings for Pan – retsina, pine boughs, goat meat and cheese. October 11 (Puanepsion 4): Hermaia Propulaia – “Before the gate” - a time of boundaries between life and death as we go into autumn. A day of introspection when one searches out their soul and life for things that have become stagnant and outgrown. On journey to boundary (usually cemetery gates), collect stones, then set up herm there, along with items embodying those things we want to leave behind "before the gates" as well as offerings for Hermes and the spirits. October 14 (Puanepsion 7): Puanepsia – A meal of goat or lamb for Apollon. Eiresione made of laurel, decorated with ribbons, bells, etc. Offering of the puanepsion, Greek cookies. October 31: Thanateia – Daytime walk to cemetery, share food with dead, altar for ancestors. At night, death feast for the gods of the Underworld. Invocation, then dumb supper in silence and candlelight, black table settings, turnip lanterns, each with own offering.  Followed by masked/costumed revel outside. Horror movies, ghost stories. November 14 (Maimakterion 9): Lampteria - Feast of Torches - observed on Parnassos. The beginning of Dionysos’ three month reign at Delphi. Theodaisia for Dionysos and the Korykian Nymphs. Torches call the god, light candles all around and set up bowls of wine throughout the house and city. November 25 (late Maimakterion): Pompaia – Purification with black fleece (Dios Kodion). Renew contents of Ktesios jar. December 9 (Poseideon 4): Hermaia Eriounia – Festival of Hermes as Luck-bringer, games, role-reversal, gambling. Sacrifices for good luck for the coming year. Marketplace oracle. December 21: Winter Solstice

skias surrounding new Dionysos statue Skenia festival, October 2006       permanent outdoor shrine for the tree nymphs, Dryad Nymphaia, May 2007       table set for a theoxenia feast on the Theodaisia festival, October 2006       temporary shrine for the Anthesteria festival, February 2007