#Kronia

[aceofcupsbiggestfan]

Kronia

~ 12 Hekatombaion ~

In honor of Lord Kronos, Kronia was celebrated throughout Attica. As Kronos' worship varied throughout historical eras; we can assume the earlier celebrations of this festival focused on him as a god of Grain Harvest, and the latter that of him being Zeus' father.

Roman playwright Accius detailed the festival as a time "all fields and towns...happily feast upon banquets" (Kronia Accius) this source is the greatest uphold of the festival to modern times. Along with the great feasts, citizens also were stripped of title. Most well known about the festival was this: all dined together, played together, no matter rich or poor, slave or free.

This social freedom highlighted the Golden Age, the time in which Kronos still ruled. Earth supported humans, labor was unthought of, and slavery was nonexistent.

Modern Hellenic Polytheist might find this day a good one to not only pray to Kronos, but take a look back on history. We mortals have committed atrocities throughout time. Our hope is to learn of these pains we have committed to others by those we have hurt. Take this day to learn of uncomfortable topics throughout the world such as slavery, exploitation and war. Commit yourself to betterment of not only yourself, but humanity.

Traditional Offerings:

Feasts to Kronos

Grains, wheat, bread

Reaping hooks/Imagery of field tools

Hymns to Kronos

Traditional Acts:

Holding a feast

Hymns to Kronos

Offerings to Kronos

Khaire Lord Kronos! 🌾🪡⏳

[leyswitchblr]

I wanted to burn John Barleycorn (last year's corn dolly) after dismanteling him along with the song but couldn't do it litterally. Pretty happy with the way I found to do it symbolically.

[g-faded-smile]

Unpopular opinion:

Hestia should be celebrated on Holidays.

I know it's not Christmas/Yule/Kronia/ any Winter Holiday Eve yet, but the freezing weather from here made me thought (again) that it's an Eve with Hestia's vibes because many people are homeless, hunger or they're having bad times with their family, they need her help and we can be thankful for what we have and support the ones who suffer if we can. On the bright side there are delicious food 😝.

Anyways, just an opinion and a different view if somebody needs ideas or wanna try something different this year 🤔.

[alatismeni-theitsa]

Myths aside and out of curiosity, did any ancient Greeks worship Cronus the same way the Romans saw Saturn?

I found some references to Kronos' veneration in Chaironeia, Pelion, Thebes, Arcadia and Minor Asia coast. In Olympia there was Kronios Hill, where they did sacrifices, and in Athens there was the sanctuary of Kronos and Rhea next to Zeus' temple.

We have information that the Athenians celebrated Kronia (Κρόνια), which later became the Roman festival of Saturnalia. It was at the beginning of the year (in the Εκατομβαιών month), towards the end of our modern July. It commemorated the time Kronos and Ilios (the sun) reigned upon the earth, the Golden Age of the Human Race, when there were no slaves and masters. That day the slaves could sit on their masters' tables, and sometimes the masters served the slaves. It was a festival to give thanks for the fertile earth and ask for a good harvest for the year to come. It's very possible that some of the Greek New Year traditions like singing kalanda and using/breaking pomegranates for good luck and fertility hail from the festival of Kronia.

That's some condensed information but I hope it's enough for you to start your search!

[deathlessathanasia]

"Kronia were celebrated on Rhodes on the sixth of Metageitnion (text: Pedageitnion). Porphyry (On Abstinence 2.54) tells of humans being sacrificed to Kronos during that festival. Later, a condemned criminal was kept alive until the Kronia, and then taken outside the gates to Aristobule’s statue, given wine to drink and slaughtered. From the date it has been concluded that this typical example of a scapegoat ritual springs from the Artemis cult and became associated with Kronos only later. This may quite well be true, although it is dangerous to build a case on a chance temporal coincidence. Important, however, is the fact that elsewhere as well, Kronos is associated specifically with bloody and cruel human sacrifices; the ancient attitude is summarised by Sophocles (Andr. fr. 126 Radt) as follows: ‘Of old there is a custom among barbarians to sacrifice humans to Kronos.’ Clearly this is about barbarians, as are other testimonia. Best known are the Phoenician-Punic human sacrifices, which are supposed to have been introduced by a former king, El/Kronos. The Carthaginian god in whose huge bronze statue children were burnt to death also was identified with Kronos/Saturnus. It was said that in Italy and Sardinia, too, humans had been sacrificed to Saturnus — probably just as legendary a fact as Istros’ (FGrH 334 F 48) remark about Crete that the Kouretes in ancient times sacrificed children to Kronos, or the later reports by Christian authors about human sacrifices in Greece itself.

Surveying all these data, one is not surprised that in places Kronos stands as a signum for human sacrifice, bloody offering and even cannibalism. Side by side with the above-mentioned text by Sophocles stands, for instance, Euhemerus, view (Ennius Euhemerus 9.5) that Kronos and Rhea and the other people living then used to eat human flesh. A more negative and gruesome picture hardly can be imagined. Therefore, the appearance of another, again utterly contrasting one is all the more striking. According to Empedocles, and in Pythagorean circles generally, Kronos is the very symbol of unbloody sacrifice. The Athenian cake sacrifice is a good illustration of this, and Athenaeus 3,11 OB informs us that by way of offering the Alexandrians used to put loaves of bread in Kronos’ temple, from which everybody was allowed to eat. This peaceful and joyous aspect crops up in an almost hyperbolic form in the Attic celebration of the Kronia.

Apart from a short mention by Demosthenes 24.26, with mention of the date (12 Hekatombaion = ± August), we have two somewhat more detailed reports. Plutarch Moralia 1098B: ‘So too, when slaves hold the Kronia feast or go about celebrating the country Dionysia, you could not endure the jubilation and din.’ Macrobius Saturnalia 1.10.22:Philochorus [FGrH 328 F 97] says that Cecrops was the first to build, in Attica, an altar to Saturn and Ops, worshiping these deities as Jupiter and Earth, and to ordain that, when crops and fruits had been garnered, heads of households everywhere should eat thereof in company with the slaves with whom they had borne the toil of cultivating the land, for it was well pleasing to the god that honour should be paid to the slaves in consideration of their labour. And that is why we follow the practice of a foreign land and offer sacrifice to Saturn with the head uncovered, (tr. P. V. Davies). … Finally, the Roman poet Accius (Ann. fr. 3 M, Bae.; Fr. poet. lat. Morel p. 34) adds that most Greeks, but the Athenians in particular, celebrated this festival: ‘in all fields and towns they feast upon banquets elatedly and everyone waits upon his own servants. From this had been adopted as well our own custom of servants and masters eating together in one and the same place.’"

- H. S. Versnel, Greek Myth and Ritual: The Case of Kronos, in Interpretations of Greek Mythology

[cr0wnedram]

Sketches of OC's that are very important to the story I'm developing. First is Mimas, a "roaming magician" in her own words. She is not a very nice person...

Second is still more in the concept design phase. Her name is Kronia, I can't disclose much other than she is also not a very nice person.

[by-the-decree-of-my-bolt]

LORD ZEUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUS!!!! I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY TO UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

@sun-lights-child

Well then? Spit it out already. I don’t have all day and I’m frankly unsure why I spend any on demigods

[that-one-ya-pagan-book]

demi-god?

three?

oh this'll be fun, I'm Mason, son of Zeus and Hera, prince of gods

@lightning-prince-of-gods

Well... two demigods, one god, really. - Penelope

YEAH!!!! HI!!!!! - Amaltheia

Who gave Theia coffee? - Ignatius

LORD ARES!!!!

...Great. My apologies, Mason. Amaltheia is certainly... something *shoves her playfully away*

Nice to meet you, My Lord, *Penelope gave a tight smile while glancing concerningly towards her friends*. Please let me know if you need something, I will always be there for your service, *she bows and follows the two who are fighting all the way down the hallway.*

[thalias-amazing-brother]

"a brother? gods...why are there so many of us? I guess I shouldn't question it as back in the day..." shudder "...anyway don't be scared to drop by and say hello brother. or do. I really don't care"

@lightning-prince-of-gods

”Uh… hi? I don’t really like to think why there are so many of us but I’ll keep that in mind! Hello Brother!”

[captainicequeen555]

Summer is-almost-HERE

Summer solstice, sun at his mightiest. I admit, given my hellenistic tendency, i feel like i should dedicate this incense to Apollo. Maybe Hestia and Hera as well. Ancient romans do honor those goddesess in this month.

As always, it's measured in parts.

Cinnamon 2 Orange peel (or blossom) 1 Rose 2 Lavender 2 Sandalwood 1/4 Marigold 1/2 Bay 3/2 Basil 1 Camomille 1/4 Citronella 1/2

And of course, as cherry on top, SOME MUSK! Like patchouli. You may use as well any aphrodisiac you want (jasmine, vanilla, etc...)

Stay hydrated and good bonfire!

[that-little-fucking-shit]

Greetings, dear Brother. Brother-in-law? How are you this fine day?

- @heraaaaaaaa

Ah, you know. Drowning people and doing paperwork. Pretending like I don’t see them because I’m doing paperwork. Paperwork because I’m drowning people. The usual. I really am my own worst asshole, ya know.

You?

[leyswitchblr]

Kronia

Child of the Earth

As you open your eyes

You already see

Time will swallow you whole

And when we lay your body in the fields

Grief will rain on you

And I shall pray to earth and sky for you

And I shall be heard, my kin

Thunder will crash and storm will fall

And you'll open your eyes, a new spring

But as the maw of time opens wide

You shall feel no fear

For I'll always be there love

[listen-to-cassandra]

Are you satisfied now?

@by-the-decree-of-my-crown

Yep! For now at least, thank you again

[warframestuff]

5 new Prex cards will be releasing with Jade Shadows! Ember, Vauban, Titiania, Garuda, and Protea will have their Prex cards hidden around the Kronia relay when the update launches

[theoihalioistuff]

Was Kronos a harvest god?

This is apparently a controversial and widely debated topic in academic circles. The short answer, I guess, is:

"What specific function—if any—he originally had is an unsolved problem. That he was connected with the harvest is possible but far from certain. Anyway his so-called ‘sickle’ cannot prove this. Nor is etymology of any help." (Kronos and the Kronia, Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman Religion Volume 2. Henk Versnel)

Saturn however did have explicit agricultural connections, and therefore, during the roman occupation, retroactively Kronos might have incorporated such associations. However whether or not he previously had them is unsettled, with most modern scholars (and more importantly, older ones I personally like, like Nilsson and M.L. West) leaning on the side of caution.

A quick summary of the most debated topics: the ἅρπη (sicke) that Kronos uses may well be referring to an agricultural instrument, or it might just be a curved blade, which were not uncommonly used as weapons (few would think Perseus was a harvest deity for using one for example), etymology is uncertain, and likewise the agrarian origins of the Kronia(s) can't be established.

[vicious-daughter-of-zeus]

"Watch Out!"

Stunned by the loud yell, Elektra almost doesn't feel the nick left on the edge of her ear as a large object flew inches from her head. She ducked forward, reaching her arms out to defend herself and sees just in time the monster fall down with a silver sword poking from its chest. She feels a rush of anger in her, fueled by adrenaline, and looks to where the sword was originally thrown and found a woman standing there, her eyes glowing a bright green like those eels from The Little Mermaid. There was steam blowing from her mouth and blobs that looked akin to monsters surrounding her, tense like they're two seconds away from an attack.

-@armored-atlantean-captain

[Let's try this again, shall we?]

[we shall, also you did a great job with Elektra’s characterization]

Elektra, slightly crouched down, pulls out her dagger from a secret pouch on her right thigh, and her left hand pops inside her leather jacket. You can hear an audible ‘click’ from inside her jacket.

“I am Elektra, daughter of the king of gods Zeus Kronia. What is the meaning of this!?” Elektra shouts. There is a certain sharpness in her voice that commands attention, and you must listen, wether or not you decide to actually heed her words.