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    Author: * Helen Ariston - 1 Post on this thread out of 185 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Apr 23, 2005 - 07:44

    In honor of Artemis the Moon Goddess and Lady of the Beasts. Procession of people carrying small round cakes Amphiphontes (Shining-all-round), in which dadia (little torches) are stuck; These are offered to Artemis. Some say the reason the cake is called Amphiphon, which can also mean "Shining by Double Light," is that it is offered when the sun and moon are both visible. In ancient times a she-goat was sacrificed. This is also an appropriate time for the Arkteia (Playing the She-Bear). The Arktoi (She-Bears) are young girls (about ten years old) who dance naked or in short, saffron chitones (tunics); they wear leaf-crowns in their hair and carry torches or twigs.

    From a lecture: HELLANIKOS of Lesbos, Information about Mounychia:

    Demosthenes, in the Oration for Ctesiphon [18. 107]:

    a place along the seashore in Attica. Hellanikos, in Book II of his Atthis, says that it was named after a certain King Mounychos, son of Pantakles. Scholia on Demosthenes: Mounychia is a place round about the Peiraeus, where the sanctuary of Mounychia the daughter of Artemis is . . .


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