 Continuity of the site made sacred by the presence of Cecrops is inherent in the reference in Nonnus' "Dionysiaca" to the Erechtheion lamp as "the lamp of Cecrops".Priests of the Erechtheum and the priestess of Athena jointly took part in the procession to Skiron that inaugurated the Skira festival near the end of the Athenian year.Their object was the "temenos" at Skiron of the hero-seer Skiros, who had aided Eumolpus in the war between Athens and Eleusis in which Erechtheus II, the hero-king, was both triumphant and died.