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    The Dionysian Mysteries were a ritual of ancient Greece and Rome which sometimes used intoxicants and other trance-inducing techniques (like dance and...
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  • included the Eleusinian mysteries, the Dionysian mysteries and the Orphic mysteries. Twice each year, initiates of the Eleusinian mysteries travelled to Eleusis...
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    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...
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    Initiates worshipped him in the Dionysian Mysteries, which were comparable to and linked with the Orphic Mysteries, and may have influenced Gnosticism...
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    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...
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    initiation of a woman into matrimony in accordance with the Dionysian Mysteries, a mystery cult devoted to the god known to the Romans as Bacchus. Specific...
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    (331–363) Cabeiri Christian persecution of paganism under Theodosius I Dionysian Mysteries Kykeon Mycenaean Greece Orphism Poppy goddess Sacerdos Cereris Encyclopædia...
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    the Titanic, material existence, one had to be initiated into the Dionysian mysteries and undergo teletē, a ritual purification and reliving of the suffering...
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    Mystery religions, mystery cults, sacred mysteries or simply mysteries, were religious schools of the Greco-Roman world for which participation was reserved...
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    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...
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    associated with the Maenads or Bacchantes, followers of Dionysus, and the Dionysian Mysteries. Examples of sparagmos appear in Euripides's play The Bacchae. In...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    traditions, such as Zoroastrianism, Ancient Egyptian religion, and the Dionysian Mysteries, vamachara, and the modern Western occult left-hand path traditions...
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    Bowl of Hygieia Crozier Double-headed eagle Healing Simurgh Mithraic mysteries Nehushtan Ningishzida Serpent (symbolism) Staff of Moses Star of Life...
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    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...
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    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...
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    who only worshipped Selene among the gods and performed her rituals and mysteries at night. The other gods, angered, sent him two lions to tear him apart...
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    major festivals were sacred mysteries. Her Thesmophoria festival (11–13 October) was women-only. Her Eleusinian mysteries were open to initiates of any...
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    maxims Adiaphora Eudaimonia Kathekon Oikeiôsis Mysteries Eleusinian Mysteries Orphism Dionysian Mysteries Practices Worship Agalma Dithyramb Paean Orgion...
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    emperor Julian Mystery religions and sacred mysteries Arcadian Mysteries Delos Mysteries Dionysian Mysteries Eleusinian Mysteries Imbrian Mysteries Mithraism...
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    Vodka eyeballing Sconcing History Andrew Johnson alcoholism debate Dionysian Mysteries Dipsomania Gilbert Paul Jordan Gin Craze List of deaths through alcohol...
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    depicted as worn by the Cabeiri, supernatural craftsmen associated with a mystery cult known in Athens in classical times, and who were associated with both...
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    using his own personal money in fulfillment of a vow he made." In the mystery cults of the highly syncretic Hellenistic era, Pan is identified with Phanes/Protogonos...
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  • 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...
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    maxims Adiaphora Eudaimonia Kathekon Oikeiôsis Mysteries Eleusinian Mysteries Orphism Dionysian Mysteries Practices Worship Agalma Dithyramb Paean Orgion...
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