1) Festival in ancient Macedonia 2) Greek animal sacrifice
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Xanthika or Xandika was an ancient Macedonian annual festival, shortly before the vernal equinox, in the month Xanthikos, containing a spring purification march of the army between the two halves of a sacrificed dog, which is associated with the assimilation of the new year`s ephebes into the army. According to a fragment of Polybius 23.10 they m....
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