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Maenad carrying a thyrsus and a leopard with a snake rolled up over her head. Tondo of an ancient Greek Attic white-ground kylix 490–480 BC from Vulci. Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich, Germany. Dancing Maenad Roman copy of Greek original attributed to Kallimachos c. 425 –400 BCE at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The maenads were, in Ancient Greece, women who took part in the cult of Dionysus. They reached ecstasy and trance by screaming and dancing. They reached ecstasy and trance by screaming and dancing. They used many Dionysian attributes such as the nebris or the thyrsus , and took drugs chewing ivy leaves.
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The ecstatic Kouretes dancing around the infant Zeus, depicted by Jane Ellen Harrison, 1912. Little is known directly of ecstatic dance in ancient times. However, Greek mythology does have several stories of the Maenads; the maenads were intoxicated female worshippers of the Greek god of wine, Dionysus, known for their "ecstatic revelations and frenzied dancing".
English: Menade (or maenad) in silk dress, a Roman fresco from the Casa del Naviglio in Pompeii, 1st century AD, Naples National Museum. Italiano: Menade danzante, in abito di seta. Affresco (cm 66 x 52) del I secolo d.C. da Pompei , Casa del Naviglio (VI, 10, 11), oggi al Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (inv. nr. 9298).
Watch the Video. Click here to watch on YouTube. Many animals engage in elaborate mating rituals. For flight-ready birds, these often involve complex dance moves and peacock-like displays of grandeur.
Maybe you’re wondering, "Why would God want Mary to make this long, difficult journey to Bethlehem this late in her pregnancy?" Well, we know that God is a stickler for detail.
Marble image of a dancing Maenad; approximately 120–140 AD. Attributed to Callimachus. Omophagia, or omophagy (from Greek ωμός "raw") is the eating of raw flesh. The term is of importance in the context of the cult worship of Dionysus. Omophagia is a large element of Dionysiac myth; in fact, one of Dionysus' epithets is Omophagos "Raw ...