While mentioning both Selene and Pandion in connection with the festival's name, Photius states that the festival was held for Zeus,Cook, p. 732; Photius, Lexicon s.v. Πάνδια. and although according to Robert Parker this association with Zeus may only be "a probably correct etymological guess",Parker 2005, p. 478. many scholars are content to assign the festival to Zeus.For example see: Harris, p. 190; Harding, p. 42; Anderson, p. 130; Sourvinou-Inwood, p. 74; Robertson 1996, p. 41, p. 65 note 1; Parke, pp. 135–136. It is also possible that more than one of these mythological figures were associated with the festival, and who the festival honored may have changed over time.Kearns, p. 81, says "If the Pandia were a festival of Zeus, as the Panathenaia of Athena, it is nonetheless clear that the Pandion received a lesser sacrifice"; Smith, "Pandia" says "It is not impossible that in course of time the tribe Pandionis may have regarded themselves as specially connected with this festival, though we have no clear evidence of it, nor again that Zeus, as Preller thinks, may afterwards have been associated in the worship"; and Cook, p. 732 says "that the festival Pandia was ab initio connected with this Selene Pandia is far from clear", while Willetts, p. 179 sees a possible "metamorphosis" ... from a female to a male—Pandia to Pandion". Regarding the possibility of multiple honorees for Attic festivals see Parker 2005, p. 155, which says: "ancient scholars were uncertain what god two festivals (Skira, Oschophoria) belonged to, and the controversy has continued into modern times. But in both cases it seems that it is the principle of 'one god per festival' that is at fault."
