1. LOCAL PIETY

2. oikos
Zeus Ktêsios (Possessions) Agathos Daimôn Zeus Meilikhios (Fertility/Children) Hestia Zeus Ephestios (Hearth)

3. AMPHIDROMIA Hearth fire as transformative:
• Myths of “immortalization” (Achilles, Demophoön)
• RawCooked : NatureCulture : StrangeFamiliar : OtherSelf
• Amphidromia ritual

4. Threshold
Zeus Herkeios (Fence)
Hermes
Hekate
Apollo Agyieus (Street)

5. Female Rites of Passage
ROLE
DEITY
[youngest]
tending hearth
Hestia 7
arrhephoros (“dew-carrier”)
Athena Parthenos 10
aletris (“grinder”)
Athena
10-14
arktos (“bear”)
Artemis Brauronia 14
kanephoros (“basket-carrier”)
Athena Polias
15+
marriage
Hera Gamostolos

6. Rites of Passage ARTEMIS APHRODITE HERA virginity sexual activity
marriage, childbirth
girl
korê/nympha
woman
gynê

7. Marriage
1. Proaulia
2. Gamos
3. Epaulia

8. Nymph

9. Kinds of Space NATURE wilderness uncultivated, “raw” NYMPHS garden
self-cultivated, “self-cooked”
CULTURE
farm
cultivated, “cooked”
Garden of the Nymphs kêpos nymphôn
•sacralization of nature
•sexualization (kêpos, leimôn, pedion)
of nature
•idealization of marriage
•nymphs vs. Artemesian nymphs

10. Nymphs, Apollo, Pan

11. Cave of Pan, North Slope of Akropolkis

12. Pan
•idealization of primal space •proto-civilization harsh and pristine •celebration of male virility •myths of sexual aggression •experience of “panic”