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Dammit, I wanted to search for some information on a festival to Leto that I found in Burkert's Greek Religion last night. And of course, I forgot the name. It begins with the letter K, that's about all I can remember.

Work is going well. I'm taking calls. No troubleshooting or technical stuff yet. It's slow going, but it's pretty much stress free at this point. I am happy for that.

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[tn-lark.livejournal.com]

Could it be this one that I found a reference to??

"Besides these pan-Hellenic myths, there were many local heroes who served as initiatory models for youths. One example out of many: in Cretan Phaistos, it was said that Leukippos (Leucippus), although born as a girl, had changed into a man when he reached adolescence. This myth was the aition for the Ekdusia ("the shedding of clothes"), the festival of Leto, mother of Apollo and Artemis. Evidently, it was a festival that celebrated the end of initiation when boys shed their female clothes (dramatized in the myth as a sex change) in order to assume proper male ones. Many such local initiatory myths were recorded in Hellenistic and Roman times long after the corresponding rites had disappeared."

[fuego.livejournal.com]

Huh...I don't remember that name (I thought It began with a K, but maybe I was off by a letter)- and the book didn't really have any detail about what it was, so I'm not sure.

In any event, what you've written there doesn't really sound like a festival that I would celebrate...lol