Southeastern Hellenes

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Persephonaia: A Celebration of Persephone

The Artemis Mounykhia Congregation cordially invites you to our next festival, Persephonaia: A Celebration Persephone, scheduled for September 8, 2007.

Please join us as we celebrate the goddess Persephone as both daughter to the goddess Demeter, as well as wife of Hades and Queen of the Underworld!

We will begin the day with a public libation ritual to both Persephone and Demeter at Big Trees Forest Preserve* at 1:00 PM (as per our monthly libation ritual schedule) and then we will gather afterward for lunch at a nearby restaurant to be determined.

After we finish our meal, we will gather at a member's house for a private ritual and celebration of Persephone. There will be games and other Hellenic-themed activities, culminating in the ritual at 6:00 PM and a ritual feast to follow directly after the ritual. The ritual feast will be potluck-style, so please bring a dish to feed at least 5-10 people. The main course is expected to be a pork and pomegranate dish.

While we certainly encourage you to attend both rituals (public and private), attendance to both is not required. You are welcome to attend either ritual, but please give the coordinator notice if you intend the attend the private ritual so that we may plan accordingly for food and activities.

For more information on the festival, directions to the private ritual celebration, or to sign up for the potluck, please contact the coordinator Laura at laura@sehellenes.org.

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*Big Trees Forest Preserve is located at:
7645 Roswell Rd
Atlanta, GA 30350

Apologies as I have been a bit remiss in posting about SE events as of late.

In case you have not been keeping up at SE Hellenes.org, here is a summary of some upcoming events:

GEORGIA:
* Theatre in the Square: Aeschylus' The Persians: August 12 - September 23, 2007

* The Silver Scream Spook Show Presents: Jason and the Argonauts: 10:00PM EDT Tuesday, August 25, 2007

* Atlanta-area Lectio Homerica for August: 8:00PM EDT Tuesday, August 28, 2007

* Atlanta Monthly Libation: Demeter and Persephone: 1:00PM EDT Saturday, September 8, 2007

* Atlanta-area Persephonaia: Celebration of Persephone Festival (TBA)

* Atlanta-area SE Hellenes Monthly Meet-and-Greet for September: 8:00PM EDT Tuesday, September 11, 2007

* Emory University Lecture: "The Poetry is in the Pity: The Trojan War in Greek Art": 7:00PM EDT Monday, September 17, 2007

* Theater Emory: The Trojan War Repertory: October 4-14, 2007



LOUISIANA:
* Church of Thessaly's Annual Thesmophoria Festival: October 26-27, 2007


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Please send us more events going on in the Southeast if you know of any!

Also, please be sure to keep an eye on SE Hellenes.org for more events in the future (we tend to keep that more up to date).

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Hello everyone!

Some of you might have heard of the Anadikia festival if you are on the Neokoroi list, but for those of you that haven't, I wanted to pass the information along.

In lieu of everyone being able to get together on a national or international scale to celebrate a festival, the idea came up of an alternate festival that would be celebrated by everyone who wished to be involved separately, but on the same day. This leaves the festival open to being celebrated by either individuals or groups around the world.

As the Artemis Mounykhia Proto-demos and Eranos, we would like to celebrate this festival here in Atlanta. We welcome anyone to join or, if they are holding the ritual themselves in their own hometowns, then we welcome you to post any details so that we can add them to the SE Hellenes event page so that others might join us/you.

Below is the information from the Neokoroi site as it stands at this moment. Details are still being hammered out on a large and small scale, but I still wanted to go ahead and announce it nonetheless.

I am looking forward to doing rituals with many of you, even if it is only in spirit!

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From: http://www.neokoroi.org/anadikia.h…


We have jointly created a new festival to be celebrated annually as a community - both Neokoroi specifically and anyone else in Hellenismos who wishes to join us. This is still a work-in-progress, so check back for more ideas, fleshed-out rituals, etc.

Name: Anadikia, meaning "renewal of action"

Date: 1 Hekatombaion, or the nearest weekend (July 15, 2007)

Purpose: to honor all groups of gods, to celebrate our community, to ask for blessings in the coming year, give thanks for blessings received, etc. Also an opportunity to worship gods you normally don't, and to divine which gods might want your attention.

Structure: we honor the "Olympian" gods (loosely defined) in the morning, the Nature gods/spirits in the afternoon, and the Khthonioi in the nighttime. These are defined through theoxenia-type feasts for each meal, related to the group of gods honored.

Activities: feasts with full formal ritual preceding each one (procession, purification, libation, sacrifice, etc.), agon (physical contests, chess, board games, darts, etc.), crafts (wreath making, mask making, face painting), temporary shrines built for each group, music played/sung, divinations, ecstatic rites....

There is no specific ritual script for this day, to allow for personal improvisation, but these are suggestions for ways to celebrate, and we will all be doing similar actions at the same times throughout the day.

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Southeastern Hellenes, a southeastern based Hellenic networking organization, cordially invites you to attend one of our monthly meetups in the Atlanta-area.

These meetups function for not only a place for a meet-and-greet, but also for discussion on a range of topics, often specific to Hellenismos (Ancient Greek religion), but not always.

You do NOT have to be a Hellenic Polytheist to attend the meetups, in fact we welcome anyone who may either have questions about the religion or is curious about us to come as well.

The next date for meetup is:
May 7, 2007

Until further notice, we will be holding them on the second Tuesday of every month at 8:00 PM in the cafe of the East Cobb Borders bookstore.

Here is the store's website:
http://www.bordersstores.com/store…

And here is the store's address:
The Avenue East Cobb
Building C, Suite 700
Marietta, GA 30062
Phone: 770.565.0947
Fax: 770.565.0948

The store is open until 11:00 PM, so we can stay at least as long as that. :)

We look forward to seeing anyone who is able to make it out! Look for the yellow "SE Hellenes" sign on the table to find us!

For more information on the Southeastern Hellenes group, please visit:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/se_h…
http://www.sehellenes.org

Apologies for the cross-posting, I just wanted to make sure that I had all the bases
covered!

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Southeastern Hellenes, a southeastern based Hellenic networking organization, cordially
invites you to attend one of our monthly meetups in the Atlanta-area.

These meetups function for not only a place for a meet-and-greet, but also for discussion
on a range of topics, often specific to Hellenismos (Ancient Greek religion), but
not always.

You do NOT have to be a Hellenic Polytheist to attend the meetups, in fact we welcome
anyone who may either have questions about the religion or is curious about us to
come as well.

The next date for meetup is:
April 10, 2007

Until further notice, we will be holding them on the second Tuesday of every month
at 8:00 PM in the cafe of the East Cobb Borders bookstore.

Here is the store's website:
http://www.bordersstores.com/store…

And here is the store's address:
The Avenue East Cobb
Building C, Suite 700
Marietta, GA 30062
Phone: 770.565.0947
Fax: 770.565.0948

The store is open until 11:00 PM, so we can stay at least as long as that. :)

We look forward to seeing anyone who is able to make it out! Look for the yellow
"SE Hellenes" sign on the table to find us!

For more information on the Southeastern Hellenes group, please visit:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/se_h…
http://www.sehellenes.org (under construction)

Hello everyone,

Sorry for the cross-post, I just wanted to post the link to the new website that I created for our group -- Artemis Mounykhia Proto-demos, Hellenion and Artemis Mounykhia Eranos, Neokoroi (same group, different affiliations):

http://radiantbaby.tripod.com/arte…

We hope to sometime soon get a web domain for it once justben is done with some architecture coding for our server, but I wanted to go ahead and put something up for the interim.

Tell us what you guys think!

Oh, and if you are near Atlanta and/or want to be notified about our group's events, please feel free to join our annoucement group:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arte…


Thanks!

Where: Marietta, GA: Borders East Cobb
When: 8:00PM EST Tuesday, January 9, 2007

The Atlanta-area members of Southeastern Hellenes cordially invite you to attend one of our local monthly meetups. These meetups function for not only a place for a meet-and-greet, but also for discussion on a range of topics, often specific to Hellenismos, but not always. You do NOT have to be a Hellenic Polytheist to attend the meetups, in fact we welcome anyone who may either have questions about the religion or is curious about us to come as well. Until further notice, we will be holding the monthly meetups on the second Tuesday of every month at 8:00 PM in the cafe of the East Cobb Borders bookstore.

NOTE: To help you find us, look for the yellow "SE Hellenes" sign on the table!

ADDRESS:
The Avenue East Cobb
Building C, Suite 700
Marietta, GA 30062
Phone: 770.565.0947
Fax: 770.565.0948

Where: Marietta, GA: Borders East Cobb
When: 8:00PM EST Tuesday, November 14, 2006

The Atlanta-area members of Southeastern Hellenes cordially invite you to attend one of our local monthly meetups. These meetups function for not only a place for a meet-and-greet, but also for discussion on a range of topics, often specific to Hellenismos, but not always. You do NOT have to be a Hellenic Polytheist to attend the meetups, in fact we welcome anyone who may either have questions about the religion or is curious about us to come as well. Until further notice, we will be holding the monthly meetups on the second Tuesday of every month at 8:00 PM in the cafe of the East Cobb Borders bookstore.

NOTE: To help you find us, look for the yellow "SE Hellenes" sign on the table!

ADDRESS:
The Avenue East Cobb
Building C, Suite 700
Marietta, GA 30062
Phone: 770.565.0947
Fax: 770.565.0948

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Khairete,

This is a call for articles, essays, reviews, hymns, poetry and anything
else related to Hellenic polytheism for inclusion in the next issue of He
Epistole, the quarterly newsletter of Neokoroi. If you don't know about
us, check us out here: http://www.neokoroi.org/newsletter…

The deadline is November 20th and the issue comes out around the winter
solstice. To get an idea of what types of things we publish, you can read
our back issues here: http://www.neokoroi.org/back_issue…

I'm interested in many different styles, from the academic to the
personal. Would love to feature some new writers in this issue. Please
send your submission to info@neokoroi.org

Thanks!

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Where: Dahlonega, GA: Starbridge
When: 12:00PM EDT Sunday, October 15, 2006

Come join as we celebrate this month's Hellenion libation ritual to Poseidon at the Turning Wheel festival at Starbridge in Dahlonega, GA!

The event is invite-only, but you can easily contact wheezinggirl at wheezinggirl (at) hotmail (dot) com to get an invite and more information.

We will also be incorporating a Hellenismos 101 class along with the ritual.

We expect things to run between an hour to an hour and a half.

We look forward to see you!