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Hace 3 días · The cult of Dionysus is also a "cult of the souls"; his maenads feed the dead through blood-offerings, and he acts as a divine communicant between the living and the dead. He is sometimes categorised as a dying-and-rising god.
Hace 1 día · The Dionysian mysteries were frequently targeted both because its priestly leadership included men and women, and because its ceremonies were associated with wine drinking, ecstatic frenzy or ritual madness, and possibly sexual rites. This led to suspicion that the cult contributed to disorderly conduct, crime and immorality.
Hace 3 días · In some contexts, moreover, the verb timân ‘honor’ refers to the worship of divinities and cult heroes together within the same cult complex: an example of such a context is a passage in Herodotus (5.67.5) where the historian refers to political fluctuations in the joint worship of the god Dionysus and of the hero Adrastos in Sikyon.
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Hace 3 días · Heracles is greatly amused by Dionysus' appearance and jokingly offers several ways to commit suicide before finally offering his knowledge of how to get to there. Heracles appears as the ancestral hero of Scythia in Herodotus' text.
Hace 2 días · Her cult titles include Sito ... Dionysus (Bacchus) and Demeter (Ceres), antique fresco in Stabiae, 1st century. Hesiod's Theogony (c. 700 BC) describes Demeter as the second daughter of Cronus and Rhea, and the sister of Hestia, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus.
Hace 4 días · In 186 BCE 7,000 members of the cult of Dionysus were imprisoned, tortured, and executed in Rome for “threatening Roman values” with their large celebratory social gatherings that lasted for days and weeks, featuring rhythm-focused music, continuous dancing, psychoactive substances, and collective sexuality.
