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Hace 2 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 5 días · Mithraism, also known as the Mithraic mysteries or the Cult of Mithras, was a Roman mystery religion centered on the god Mithras. Although inspired by Iranian worship of the Zoroastrian divinity ( yazata ) Mithra , the Roman Mithras was linked to a new and distinctive imagery, and the level of continuity between Persian and Greco-Roman practice ...
Hace 3 días · The Greek myth of Dionysus and Lycurgus preserves the history of the arrival of the cult of Dionysus (Zagreus) in Thrace. Lycurgus (Λυκοῦργος, Lukoûrgos; Latin: Lycurgus), the king of the Edoni who lived on the shores of the Hellespont, was the son of the god of the North Wind, Boreas.
Hace 3 días · People tend to typecast Dionysus as the god of wine, but the wine itself, while very important to the cult of Dionysus, was not the all-important element: the innocent fury of Dionysus was represented not so much by the wine but rather by the intoxication that was associated with wine. Dionysus is tragedy incarnated and completely unrestrained.
Hace 1 día · Chapter 7: A Sojourn in Eden. December 13 – 26, 1519. Under the terms of an international treaty that had received the blessing of the pope in Rome, the vast majority of the Americas was considered to be Spanish territory in 1519. In light of this, it was no small irony that Ferdinand Magellan had chosen to make his first American landfall in ...
23 de abr. de 2024 · It’s not clear where the cult of Dionysus started, but most accounts have him as a foreign god. In Greek mythology, Dionysus was “born” twice. Once when his mortal mother was tricked by Hera, and she was blasted apart by Zeus’s raw presence, and twice after Zeus sewed him up in his thigh until he was fully developed.
Hace 3 días · I focus more on the Mysteries of Dionysus. When we’re talking about the Mysteries of Eleusis, we’re talking about an agrarian cult that seems to have used some kind of beer-based potion in its mysteries. With Christianity and the Mysteries of Dionysus, you’re talking about wine, a new sacrament for a new millennium.
