In Homeric times, when the Greek world is still governed by the aristocratic culture, processions funerals were only intended to accompany the deceased to the crematorium and burial ashes. only within the polis in archaic and classical (late-eighth century BC), with its own institutions already in place, began to be given importance to the procession and took the value that would eventually taking and has become the leading exponent of the public life of the city as a human community. Nevertheless, the procession is only the first of three phases that comprise the ritual of the festival: procession, sacrifice and agon. He could spend The festival also require a vigil , preparation, ritual language known by the name of pannychís . if one of the three elements, the first, the procession, was distorted and had cambiársele the name or be accompanied by a qualifier : magical procession, carnival, etc. is the case some of the archaic processions later assimilated largest festivals, which came to be part of genuine acts of worship processions : for example, the processions carrying on a stretcher with a huge phallus accompanied by an entourage of Bacchae were incorporated into the Greater Dionysia .
Greek The procession is not an act of worship broadly, but rather the preparation or progress towards it and, in fact, live processions marked esprit religious group, as which was from Athens to Eleusis , with other civic, as the Great Panathenaic . It was the mirror that was shown and watched the city: l the citizens, divided into meaningful groups, are ranked and showed their cohesion before men, but also to the deity to whom the festival was dedicated. The procession also marks the ritual territory of the city and the greater importance of the site on the periferia_ the importance and political dominance of Athens , the main town on the outlying under its administrative power.
The town itself is presented as the ultimate framework of religious life . Sanctuaries and cults attract the interest of the city, which only in so far as part of their common beliefs and member feels part of the civic body . As reads the oath of efebos , s. IV _ will fight to defend the sanctuaries and the city ... will honor the ancestral worship ,..._ the country, to the city, religion was primarily transmitted by their ancestors and therefore giving much importance large sacred ceremonies, under which had the sense to participate actively and fully in the life of the city in what was the essential and most precious.
Oldest plastic representation of a procession, or at least a ritual processional featuring forms, constitutes the Hagia Triada sarcophagus , from 1300-1400 BC. This is a four-sided coffin limestone painted the fresco technique and presents scenes from a moving procession to the sound of music, with transportation offerings, cult objects and sacrificial victims.
On the A side shows a scene with three men wearing offerings, consisting of animals and a model of a boat before a priest or God or even the same decedent (the picture shows a man with no arms rigid and there various interpretations on this) in front of his tomb. Behind see the tree of life . The other scene features three porters. One of them, possibly a priestess, goes, to make a libation , to a large crater located between two trees or pillars, crowned with Minoan Double Axe ( labrys ) and birds that representing the Cretan goddess _ bird the bird is, from the Paleolithic , the distance runner vast and incomprehensible and, therefore, all the invisible world. The Minoans what it took to make supreme image of the Epiphany of display of divinity.
On the flip side is the ritual slaughter of a bull : tied with ropes on table sacrifice at an altar adorned with horns consecration and a small tree next to a labrys with a bird. On the right, a woman prepares for the ceremony and a young man appears playing Aulos .
In one of the sides appears couple departed on a cart pulled by two taps and the other by two horses. Another interpretation presents these characters as gods or notables parading in cars, that is as prestigious attending the procession.
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