See also:PYANEPSIA, or PYANOPSIA (from Gr. iruavos = Keayos, See also:bean, and aka)
, to See also:boil), an See also:ancient festival in See also:honour of See also:Apollo, held at See also:Athens on the 7th of the See also:month Pyanepsion (See also:October)
.
A See also:hodge-podge of See also:pulse was prepared and offered to Apollo (in his capacity as See also:sun See also:god and ripener of fruits) and the Horae, as the first-fruits of the autumn See also:harvest
.
Another offering on this occasion was the eiresione
.
This was a See also:branch of See also:olive or See also:laurel, See also:bound with See also:purple or See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:wool, See also:round which were hung various fruits of the See also:season, pastries, and small jars of See also:honey, oil and See also:wine
.
It was intended as a thank-offering for blessings received, and at the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time as a See also:prayer for similar blessings and See also:protection against evil in future; hence, it was called a " suppliant " branch (iKe-rrlpia)
.
The name is generally derived from eipos (wool) in reference to the woollen bands, but some connect it with €Vpe v (to speak), the eiresione being regarded as the " spokesman " of the suppliants
.
It was carried in procession by a boy whose parents were both alive to the See also:temple of Apollo, where it was suspended on the See also:gate
.
The doors of private houses were similarly adorned
.
The branch was allowed to hang for a See also:year, when it was replaced by a new one, since by that time it was supposed to have lost its virtue
.
During the procession a See also:chant (also called eiresione) was sung, the See also:text of which has been preserved in See also:Plutarch (See also:Theseus, 22):
" Eiresione carries See also:figs and See also:rich cakes;
Honey and oil in a See also:jar to anoint the limbs;
And pure wine, that she may be drunken and go to See also:sleep."
The semi-personification of eiresione will be noticed; and, according to Mannhardt, the branch " embodies the See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree-spirit conceived as the spirit of vegetation in See also:general, whose vivifying and fructifying See also:influence is thus brought to See also:bear upon the See also:corn in particular."
Aetiologists connected both offerings with the Cretan expedition of Theseus, who, when driven ashore at See also:Delos, vowed a thank-offering to Apollo if he slew the See also:Minotaur, which after-wards took the See also:form of the eiresione and Pyanopsia
.
To explain the origin of the hodge-podge, it was said that his comrades on landing in See also:Attica gathered up the scraps of their provisions that remained and prepared a See also:meal from them
.
See W
.
Mannhardt, Wald- and Feld/See also:mite (1905), ii
.
214, for an exhaustive See also:account of the eiresione and its analogies; J
.
G
.
Frazer, The See also:Golden Bough (1900), i
.
190; J
.
E
.
See also:Harrison, Prolegomena to See also:Greek See also:Religion (1908), ch
.
3; L
.
R
.
Farnell, Cults of the Greek States (1907), iv
.
286
.
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