The Dionysian Mysteries were a ritual of ancient Greece and Rome which sometimes used intoxicants and other trance-inducing techniques (like dance and... 20 KB (2,438 words) - 09:58, 10 April 2024 |
included the Eleusinian mysteries, the Dionysian mysteries and the Orphic mysteries. Twice each year, initiates of the Eleusinian mysteries travelled to Eleusis... 17 KB (2,325 words) - 19:02, 17 December 2023 |
Dionysus (section Bacchic Mysteries) the Bacchic or Dionysian Mysteries. The exact origin of this religion is unknown, though Orpheus was said to have invented the mysteries of Dionysus. Evidence... 210 KB (24,505 words) - 06:36, 18 April 2024 |
Cult of Dionysus (redirect from Dionysian ritual) Initiates worshipped him in the Dionysian Mysteries, which were comparable to and linked with the Orphic Mysteries, and may have influenced Gnosticism... 9 KB (996 words) - 06:35, 18 April 2024 |
Dionysia (redirect from Dionysian Festival) different parts of the year. They were also an essential part of the Dionysian Mysteries.[citation needed] The Dionysia was originally a rural festival in... 21 KB (2,497 words) - 19:44, 2 February 2024 |
Orphism (religion) (redirect from Orphic Mysteries) the Titanic, material existence, one had to be initiated into the Dionysian mysteries and undergo teletē, a ritual purification and reliving of the suffering... 35 KB (4,040 words) - 09:18, 28 April 2024 |
rites were held at night. Orgia were part of the Eleusinian Mysteries, the Dionysian Mysteries, and the cult of Cybele, which involved the castration of... 6 KB (586 words) - 02:10, 27 January 2024 |
for the god Phanes, mentioned in Orphic poetry and the associated Dionysian Mysteries, a non-Greek name for which no certain interpretation has been found... 3 KB (295 words) - 09:44, 21 November 2023 |
Aion (deity) (category Greco-Roman mysteries) mystery religions concerned with the afterlife, such as the mysteries of Cybele, the Dionysian mysteries, Orphic religion, and the Mithraic mysteries... 14 KB (1,368 words) - 11:18, 29 February 2024 |
Australia. In Ancient Greece it was a sacred instrument used in the Dionysian Mysteries and is still used in rituals worldwide. It was a prominent musical... 17 KB (2,068 words) - 07:12, 6 April 2024 |
Bowl of Hygieia Crozier Double-headed eagle Healing Simurgh Mithraic mysteries Nehushtan Ningishzida Serpent (symbolism) Staff of Moses Star of Life... 24 KB (2,776 words) - 10:14, 22 April 2024 |
to Greek mythology, this mountain was sacred to Dionysus and the Dionysian mysteries; it was also sacred to Apollo and the Corycian nymphs, and it was... 17 KB (1,956 words) - 20:38, 13 April 2024 |
major festivals were sacred mysteries. Her Thesmophoria festival (11–13 October) was women-only. Her Eleusinian mysteries were open to initiates of any... 90 KB (10,236 words) - 17:41, 14 April 2024 |
maxims Adiaphora Eudaimonia Kathekon Oikeiôsis Mysteries Eleusinian Mysteries Orphism Dionysian Mysteries Practices Worship Agalma Dithyramb Paean Orgion... 25 KB (2,875 words) - 23:10, 27 April 2024 |
maxims Adiaphora Eudaimonia Kathekon Oikeiôsis Mysteries Eleusinian Mysteries Orphism Dionysian Mysteries Practices Worship Agalma Dithyramb Paean Orgion... 95 KB (9,943 words) - 21:59, 28 April 2024 |
efficacious as a charm against certain dangers. In that place were also the mysteries of the Korybantes [Kabeiroi] and those of Hekate and the Zerinthian cave... 100 KB (12,111 words) - 16:55, 28 April 2024 |
Hades (category Eleusinian Mysteries) 9 April 2023. Taylor-Perry, Rosemarie (2003). The God who Comes: Dionysian Mysteries Revisited. Barnes & Noble. pp. 4, 22, 91, 92, 94, 168. ISBN 9780875862309... 83 KB (9,649 words) - 19:25, 21 April 2024 |