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The rite climaxed in a performance of frenzied feats of strength and madness, such as uprooting trees, tearing a bull (the symbol of Dionysus) apart with their bare hands, an act called sparagmos, and eating its flesh raw, an act called omophagia. This latter rite was a sacrament akin to communion in which the participants assumed the strength ...
Livy, writing some 200 years after the event, offers a scandalized and extremely colourful account of the Bacchanalia, with frenzied rites, sexually violent initiations of both sexes, all ages and all social classes; he represents the cult as a murderous instrument of conspiracy against the state. Livy claims that seven thousand cult leaders ...
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Rage, Tacuinum Sanitatis casanatensis (14th century). Angel with Temperance and Humility virtues versus Devil with Rage and Anger sins.A fresco from the 1717 Saint Nicholas church in Bukovets, Pernik Province, Bulgaria.
Today's NYT Connections puzzle for Tuesday, January 28, 2025The New York Times
The principal group consists of two nymphs [b] and two fauns (emblem of the four seasons), dancing joyously in a ring. While thus performing their rounds, one of the former is squeezing the juice of grapes from her hand on two bacchanalian boys, who are struggling together to catch it; a third, overcome with its potent effects, lies asleep near them.