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pregonermetall.bsky.social
SACRIFIRE (Alemanya) presenta nou single: "Anthesteria" #Sacrifire #Gothic #DeathMetal #DoomMetal #Desembre2025 #Alemanya #NouSingle #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic
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December 17, 2025 at 10:41 AM
krymsynreine.bsky.social
#pagansky #occultsky #witchsky #archaeology #history #ancient #satyr #Greco-Roman

A satyr shading Basalinna with an umbrella for the Anthesteria festival in Athens. 440 BC. At the Altes Museum in Berlin, Germany.
December 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
aesthetic.northsky.social
I propose that we replace the Gregorian Calendar with just the Greek month of Anthesteria. Just all the time. Time is made up anyway.
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
minty-oh.bsky.social
every time I listen to anthesteria I get the urge to replay sublustrum/outcry aaaaaah

my perfect flawed game <3 they could never make me hate you <3
November 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM
ossaarts.bsky.social
Los griegos también tenían algo parecido, la Anthesteria, entre enero y febrero también
October 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
tovimagr.bsky.social
Ancient Athens had its own “Halloween”: during the Anthesteria, a festival for Dionysus, Athenians cooked offerings for the dead and sent spirits away.
Athens in Orange: How Greece Made Halloween Its Own - tovima.com
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October 28, 2025 at 4:28 AM
armchairclassicist.bsky.social
8/8
In addition to Hood's "Constellation Myths," you can read more about Icarius and Erigone in Apollodorus's Library of Greek Mythology. Walter Burkhert discusses the Anthesteria festival in detail in his "Greek Religion"
October 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
armchairclassicist.bsky.social
6/8
to suffer the same fate as her, which led to a rash of young women hanging themselves.

After consulting Apollo's Oracle, the Athenians established a ceremony as part of the Anthesteria festival where girls commemorated Erigone's death by
October 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
graylensman.bsky.social
Maenad, with @floofiesworld.bsky.social #maenad #trance #dionysia #anthesteria #nude #artisticnude #fineart #mythicimagesphotography
October 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
athalward.at.app.wafrn.net
Lo que mas recuerdo es la OST porque el juego no lo acabé pero me pasé meses nonstop escuchando los temazos de Anthesteria (y con esto ya tengo otra ost para ponerme de fondo para cosas).

youtu.be/M-iaL3ePyZc?...

youtu.be/dExgepZYd3g?...
Metro 2033 [OST] #28 - Don't Forget
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August 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
chapps.bsky.social
There’s some debate about whether this scene represents the tale of Dionysos transforming the pirates into dolphins, or whether it shows the arrival of Dionysus at the Athenian Anthesteria, one of the Athenian festivals in honor of the god, for which these choe (wine jugs) were created. 🏺 2/
With his mouth open as though singing, and his arms thrown out in a dramatic gesture, the bearded man on this vase shows the effects of a hard night’s drinking. At right, already burdened with his master’s staff and a basket, an enslaved youth holds out a vessel for the man to urinate into. The jug he offers is a chous, a special form of oinochoe (wine-pitcher), and it is the very same shape as the vessel on which this scene is depicted. Reinforcing the connection, another chous stands at the far right of the scene, garlanded with ivy. The chous was used during the Anthesteria, a three-day religious festival in honor of Dionysos, the god of wine. A drinking contest was held on the second day of the festival, and these jugs were used to hold a standard amount of wine for the contest. This chous is attributed to the ‘Oionokles Painter. The Oionokles Painter worked as a vase-painter in Athens in the years around 470 B.C. He decorated a wide range of vase shapes in the red-figure technique, but he appears to have specialized in neck-amphorae. The favorite themes of the Oionokles Painter were scenes of pursuit and Dionysiac scenes. He painted relatively few mortals or scenes of everyday life. Action and a sense of humor often characterize his work.As with most ancient artists, the true name of the Oionokles Painter is unknown; he is identified only by the stylistic traits of his work. Scholars have named him after kalos inscriptions on several of his vases, praising the beautiful youth Oionokles. Greek (Attic) Terracotta chous Attributed to Oionokles Painter abt. 470 BCE Getty Villa Museum (86.AE.237) Three naked boys wearing only leafy crowns play knucklebones (astragali) on this Athenian red-figure oinochoe. This special form of jug, called a chous, was used during the Anthesteria, a three-day festival in honor of Dionysos, the god of wine. On the first day of the festival, the new wine was opened; a drinking contest on the second day used these jugs to hold a standard amount of wine. The prevalent role of children in the decoration of choes presumably reflects the importance of the festival to children. On the second day of the festival, in addition to the drinking contest, three-year-old boys were formally accepted into their fathers' kinship groups, becoming part of the community. The chous was found at the Etruscan site of Vulci, suggesting it had been exported during antiquity.
August 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
rokewood.bsky.social
Even deriving the elusive word ‘mystery’ from the (pseudo)etymology ‘myco-sterion’ — the autumnal ‘upspringing of the mushrooms’, paralleling the spring ‘Anthesteria’
Thought is free I guess.
August 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
aicbyzantine.bsky.social
Chous (Toy Pitcher) https://www.artic.edu/artworks/87658/
Toward the end of the 5th century BCE, Athenian potters and painters created a large number of miniature oinochoai (sing. oinochoe), or pitchers, decorated with children at play or imitating adults. It is thought that they were given to the youngest members of the family during the Anthesteria, a three-day celebration of the new vintage of wine and the arrival of spring. These little vessels are called choes (sing. chous), which means libations, after the name of the second day of the festival. Children took part in the festival but did not imbibe wine. On this example, a naked boy crawls toward a young bird on a perch. A chous hangs on the wall above him. Gift of Martin A. Ryerson through The Antiquarian Society
August 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
aicbyzantine.bsky.social
Chous (Toy Pitcher) https://www.artic.edu/artworks/87657/
Toward the end of the 5th century BCE, Athenian potters and painters created a large number of miniature oinochoai (sing. oinochoe), or pitchers, decorated with children at play or imitating adults. It is thought that they were given to the youngest members of the family during the Anthesteria, a three-day celebration of the new vintage of wine and the arrival of spring. These little vessels are called choes (sing. chous), which means libations, after the name of the second day of the festival. Children took part in the festival but did not imbibe wine. On this example, a half-grown youth grabs the branch of a leafless tree with his left hand and extends his free hand to welcome a younger boy pulling a small cart. Gift of Martin A. Ryerson through The Antiquarian Society
May 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
penthepoet.bsky.social
These major holidays would happen to be, at the bare minimum:

Heavensturn/New Year, Valentione's Day/Imbolc/Anthesteria, Feast Days for Lis and her partners + the founding of Lycoris, the Carnival Feasts of Violent Delights, the Moonfire Faire, Samhain, and Yule/Brumalia/Starlight.
March 12, 2025 at 4:35 AM
taroterapry.bsky.social
Anthesteria 💜

Nos tempos em que os deuses caminhavam entre os mortais, a primavera despertava a terra com um festival de cores e aromas: a Anthesteria. Era um tempo de celebração, quando os portais entre os mundos se abriam e os espíritos dos antepassados retornavam para se juntar aos vivos.
March 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
sapphodeapho.bsky.social
eu tenho o sonho de passar minha lua de mel e/ou aniversário lá e agora meu novo sonho é comemorar anthesteria
February 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
jonspace.bsky.social
Meta agora é viajar pra Grécia na próxima Anthesteria vei
February 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
jamieroxxartist.bsky.social
Today, Feb 22, our Fun Friends the #AncientGreeks would have been seriously getting down at the #Anthesteria Festival

*one of the four Athenian festivals in honor of #Dionysus
It celebrated the beginning of spring, particularly the maturing of the wine stored at the previous vintage
February 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
blackshuckles.bsky.social
Today is the first day of Anthesteria! So here’s my celebration alter
February 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
multimelta.bsky.social
Anthesteria - Ashen Season тоже отсутствует.
February 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
arianaserpentine.bsky.social
And there’s no city to do Anthesteria with me. There’s nobody putting on City Dionysia plays. Any celebration of these or Megalesia or others would be a kludge. Is it worth acknowledging or trying sometimes? Yes, you can have powerful and meaningful experiences that way. But it’s not the point.
February 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
aoyagitoyaa.bsky.social
fighting for our fucking lives. this valentines combo anthesteria is killingggggggg meeeeee
February 15, 2025 at 12:52 AM
spiddlewicken.bsky.social
Ariadne and Dionysus' union was celebrated on the second day of Anthesteria with a ritual marriage of the 'queen' of the polis to the god.
Dolls representing Ariadne and Dionysus draw near each other while Ariadne holds her ball of twine
February 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
spiddlewicken.bsky.social
Aegobolos, come, it is Anthesteria
Accept with your bloodthirsty joy of life our sacrifice
Atonement for Your rending by Titans, on the Vine
Come, Omadios, Dionysos, and be the render of flesh
February 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM