Greetings everyone,
First and foremost, with a lot of happiness and joy, I announce the Rituals of the Muses. The Muses are Divine Intelligences, daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, and they can help everyone tremendously in the domains of works they rule over. All 10 Rituals are here:
The Rituals of the Muses weren’t announced in an Official Schedule. When this happens, the leadership of the other Ranks within the Temple organises the schedules. To make this clear for everyone, the Temple has issued a new Declaration:
Declaration on the Order of Ritual Schedules and the Leadership of the Community
Read it in full. Below is the simple version.
The 3 Ranks of Schedules
Official Ritual Schedule, by the Administration. It can come at any time, without notice. When it’s in, all of us come together: Clergy, Administration and Members. Every other schedule becomes secondary or stops.
Schedules of the Priesthood: Priests, Nominee Priests and High Priestesses.
Each Priest decides whether the schedule is for a group, the whole community, or both. Joining is your choice.
Those above the High Council always join with their Priest or High Priestess.
Any schedule a Priest leads belongs here, the High Council’s included.
Schedules of the Groups in Vultus Templorum, our online chat community and online Temple.
Novice Guardians (NG) and teams of Supreme Guardians (SG) can organise schedules. Joining is your choice.
An SG or a Priest can give a small, optional endorsement.
Each Rank supersedes the ones below it. If 2 schedules of the same Rank run at the same time, you choose which to join.
The Yearly Zevist Calendar
The Calendar will be released by 23 December 2026. Every day of the year will have:
A God or Deity of the Day, or a God in another Epithet.
A Name of Zeus for the date: an Epithet of Zeus together with another God, said as a short prayer. This is explained in the Golden Book of Zeus.
Clear guidance on what is best to do that day.
Until then, each leader chooses the Gods for their schedule.
The 8 Festivals
These are kept by all of us, together, no matter what else is running:
Winter Solstice, 22 to 23 December: Zeus and Dionysos, the Highest Celebration
Imbolc, 2 February: Estia and Artemis
Spring Equinox, 21 March: Astarte
Beltane, 30 April to 1 May: Aphrodite
Summer Solstice, 23 to 24 June: Apollo
Lammas, 1 August: Demeter
Autumn Equinox, 21 September: Demeter and Persephone
Samhain, 31 October: Persephone, Pluton and Anubis
The Cures and the Festivals
The 10 Cures and the banishment of the 10 Pathologies now follow the meaning of each Festival. Each Festival governs the season until the next one. For example, between Imbolc and the Spring Equinox the Cure is Sahukathar and the banishment is Sahiburah. The full table is in the Declaration.
The Rituals of the Muses: Recommendations
The sequence runs 10 nights in a row. Mnemosyne comes first, then Clio, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polyhymnia, Urania and Calliope. This is Hesiod’s order, and the 9 nights answer the 9 nights Zeus spent with Mnemosyne.
Run it on any 10 nights that end before 22 December. Leaders can open with the Grand Ritual of Zeus or close with the Ritual of Apollo.
An Example
It’s 23 February and there’s no Official Schedule. The Calendar shows the next 7 days with their Gods, Epithets and Cures.
The High Council, led by a Priest, sets a schedule of Rituals, prayers and Eulogies for those 7 days.
At the same time, Novice Guardians open a group schedule. Members join by choice, an SG endorses it, and the group proceeds for the 7 days.
Considerations
Respect what each person can do. Regular members and recent Initiates can only do that much. Going up in Rank, more is expected. The top Ranks are expected to do the most, and to be dependable and professional in the worship of the Gods.
Going Forward
Except for the rare major Official Schedule, our Community must organise in leadership, and leaders must take their roles. Progressively, the Administration (myself and a few others) will be there only for the most pressing tasks. This shows trust and love to the Community. We will always be available.
Administrative High Priest Zevios Metathronos,
Temple of Zeus

