Pompaia — Purification Rite

Pompaia — Purification Rite is a Hellenic festival. A purification festival at the end of Maimakterion. The pompaia involved a purification procession to cleanse the city of accumulated pollution and miasma before winter deepens. Hermes as psychopomp guided the rite, leading the impurities away. A deep cleansing marking the transition into the darkest season.

Here is how to celebrate Pompaia — Purification Rite: - Perform a thorough home cleansing — sweep, clean, clear out what has accumulated - Walk the perimeter of your home carrying protective herbs (rosemary, bay laurel) - Offerings to Hermes: traveling imagery, caduceus, crossroads offerings - Name what psychic or emotional weight you are releasing before winter

The spiritual theme of Pompaia — Purification Rite: Purification before the dark — clearing the accumulated weight of the year. Reflection prompts: What have you been carrying this year that has accumulated like dust — what needs to be swept out? What would it feel like to enter the darkest months with nothing unnecessary weighing on you?

A purification festival at the end of Maimakterion. The pompaia involved a purification procession to cleanse the city of accumulated pollution and miasma before winter deepens. Hermes as psychopomp guided the rite, leading the impurities away. A deep cleansing marking the transition into the darkest season.

The deities honored at Pompaia — Purification Rite are: Zeus, Hermes. A purification festival at the end of Maimakterion. The pompaia involved a purification procession to cleanse the city of accumulated pollution and miasma before winter deepens. Hermes as psychopomp guided

For Pompaia — Purification Rite, reflect on: "What have you been carrying this year that has accumulated like dust — what needs to be swept out?"