Chalkeia
The Chalcéia or Chalkeia , of the old Greek
Χαλχεϊα
, are religious festivities of the ancient Greece celebrated with Athens the 30 of the month of Pyanepsion (medium of the autumn). They seem to have begun just after the end from the Héphaisties, unless these last are not their preambles. They were dedicated to the god Héphaistos and the goddess Athéna Ergane ( hard-working ).
In the first times Chalcéia could have had an agrarian origin but very quickly they become a festival of the craftsmen and more particularly of the Forgeron S whose two divinities are the guards. Moreover, the festival evokes also the myths founders of Athens since the two divinities Héphaistos and Athéna are plain in the myth of the birth of Erichthonios, one of the first kings of the city.
It is during Chalcéia that the peplos offered to the goddess at the time of the Panathénées of the next summer started to be woven.