Deipnon

In Greek, (Greek pronunciation: [/dêː.pnon/ /ˈði.pnon/ /ˈði.pnon/]; Ancient Greek: δεῖπνον, deîpnon) means the evening meal, usually the largest meal of the Ancient Greek day. One famous example from the Ancient Greek sources is "Hekate's Deipnon" which is, at its most basic, a religious offering meal given to the Titan Hekate and the restless dead once a lunar month. Ancient Athenians held that once a lunar month, Hekate led the spirits of the unavenged or wrongfully killed accompanied by hounds from the underworld up from Hades.[1] It is also the last day of the month according to the lunisolar based Attic calendar used in ancient Athens. Where the time of the dark moon was seen as the in-between liminal time between months.

  1. ^ Aeschylus, Doubtful Fragment 249 (from Plutarch, On Superstition 3. 166A) (trans. Weir Smyth) Orphic Hymn 1 to Hecate Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6.110