#zeus enthroned

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Νουμηνία, I day. From today's sunset: beginning of the new month of Maimakterion, sacred to Zeus - "This is the fifth month in Athens. It is named after Zeus Maimaktes. This adjective means impetuous and agitated. With the Winter Season starting in this month, the air is agitated and changeable." (Suda and Harp. s.v. maimakterion; Anecd. Bekker 280, 27). Happy Noumenia to you all, best wishes!!! Noumenia is a day sacred to all the Gods- in particular to Apollo Noumenios, Zeus, Helios, Hecate, Artemis Noumenia, Hera, Hermes, and to all the Household Gods. Sacrifices, purifications, libations, banquets and singing of hymns are some among the distinctive features of the first day of the lunar month. Banquet of Noumeniastai; Epimenia. Principal Celebrations of the Month: - - From the sunset of November 18, VII day - Ἑβδόμη Ἱσταμένου Most probable day for the celebration of the Maimakteria in honor of Zeus. - From the sunset of December I, XX day - Εἰκὰς / Εἰκοσάδες Sacrifice to Zeus Georgos - From the sunset of December 2, XXI day - Δεκάτη Ὑστέρα / Δεκάτη Φθίνοντος / Μετεικὰς / Ἀμφιδεκάτη Most probable day for the celebration of the Pompaia. - From the sunset of December 6, XXV day - Ἕκτη Φθίνοντος / Ἕκτη μετ'εἰκάδας Funeral banquet for the glorious departed ones of Plataea - From the sunset of December 11, XXX Ἔνε καὶ νέα / Τριακάς Ἑκάτης δεῖπνον (Zeus enthroned, Roman copy after a Greek original. Now in the Vatican museums, Roma)

[hellenismo]

Δεκάτη Ἱσταμένου/ Δεκάτη Προτέρα, X day From today's sunset: tenth day of Boedromion. The Pythagoreans called the number ten: "Cosmos", "Ouranos" and, among the Muses, Ourania, "Pan", "Heimarmene and Aion/Aeternitas", "Kratos (Strength/Power) and Pistis (Faith) and Ananke (Necessity)", "Atlas" and, in a word, "God", "Phanes" and "Helios" - and "Panteleia" (accomplishment/fulfillment of all things). (cf. Iambl, Theol. Arithm. 80-86) "The cosmos is, as we have seen, the only one of its kind and unique (i.e. a Monad); next we discover that it is necessary that there is the tangible and visible in it (i.e. a Dyad); next that since there is considerable separation between these things, some third thing is needed (in order to bring them together); next we find out that the middle term involves two forms, and thus we arrive at the Tetrad. This was therefore what the Pythagorean hymn to number said as well: 'that it proceeds from the inviolate abyss of the Monad, until it should arrive at the sacred Tetrad' and this gives birth to the Decad which is 'the Mother of all things'. The father of the Golden Verses also glorifies the Tetrad calling it 'the fountain of ever-flowing Nature'. For the cosmos was ordered (kosmein) by the Tetrad, which proceeded from the Monad and the Triad, and it is completed at the Decad in as much as this is inclusive of all things… the decad is the number of the world…the Pythagoreans consider the decad as adapted to the Demiurgus, and to Fate.” (Proklos, commentary to the Timaeus, III, 53; p.109, 420) (Cornelian and gold pendant, with , a mantle draped around His legs, His left arm outstretched, supporting on His hand winged Victory holding out a wreath, a sceptre in the other hand, an eagle at His feet, the stone perforated and threaded with a gold wire, one end with a sheet gold collar terminating in an inverted granulated pyramid. 2nd century CE. Now in a private collection...)