This Year's
Worship Calendar

This calendar was created to provide Hellenic Polytheists with a working reference for a traditional year of worship based on the Ancient Athenian Calendar and Erchia’s Sacrificial Calendar. It includes festivals and the essential information needed to celebrate, as well as the sacrificial and sacred days, but is not meant to be comprehensive or authoritative, only historically sourced. I have endeavored to include every festival where a date is known, and speculative dates where possible. Obscure festivals and festivals from other city-states have been omitted. Speculative dates have been marked with asterisks*, meaning the date is an educated guess based on current academia but there is not sufficient evidence to say definitively. In these cases I have chosen the dates based on the academic argument I find the most convincing, but there is a level of bias that is unavoidable with this. You may wish to review the academia for yourself.

This calendar is formatted as a vertical and chronological chart with the modern Gregorian and Athenian lunar dates side-by-side on the left, and the Athenian celebrations listed on the right. The Gregorian dates have been calculated from the moon-rise in Athens and adjusted for the Northern Hemisphere. Festivals are for the most part aligned to the Gregorian solar days when modern worshipers would actually be celebrating, but keep in mind the festivals technically begin at sundown the night before. You may wish to adjust to your own time zone by rolling back my dates by 24hrs, or, align the Noumenia with the first visible sliver of the waxing crescent to your area.

For more detailed information on each of the festivals, see Annual Athenian Festivals.