The Skira was celebrated on the twelfth of Skirophorion with a procession from Athens to Skiron, where Athena, Demeter, and other deities were honored. Women performed secret rites while men feasted separately. The festival involved the retrieval of sacrificial remains from underground chambers. Its mysteries remain partly obscure. In poetry, Skira represents feminine religious authority, agricultural mysteries, and summer heat rituals, appearing in works exploring women's exclusive ceremonies, the Thesmophoric cycle, secret knowledge, and the Greek practice of gender-separated worship that allowed women autonomous religious spaces outside male observation and control.

Skira honored Demeter and Athena with women's secret rites and processions from Athens to Skiron. The festival's mystery elements and women's exclusive participation emphasize female religious authority and the connection between agricultural and feminine divine power. Understanding Skira helps contextualize Demeter worship beyond Eleusis and the religious spaces created for women's autonomous ritual activity. The festival's secrecy and gender restriction demonstrate Greek religious practices that excluded men from certain observances, creating female-controlled sacred spaces.