In this chapter we discuss festivals conventionally categorised as polis cults and initiation rituals, with the intention to investigate how time, memory, the re-enactment of myths and performances, and the integration of a seemingly participating cosmos become active ingredients within religious space. Since ritual performance translates to ritual and performative memory, a study combining temporal conditions, ritual narratives, and space has the potential to enhance understanding of how the human body responds to stimulants responsible for structuring experience and constructing context-specific memories, be they architectural, performative, or temporal.