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- final phase the Mysteries shifted their emphasis from a chthonic, underworld orientation to a transcendental, mystical one, with Dionysus changing his nature...20 KB (2,435 words) - 00:49, 7 August 2024
- Dionysus-Osiris, alongside Cleopatra as Isis-Aphrodite. In the controversial book The Jesus Mysteries, Osiris-Dionysus is claimed to be the basis of Jesus...3 KB (297 words) - 03:36, 21 April 2024
- linked with the Orphic Mysteries, and may have influenced Gnosticism. Orpheus was said to have invented the Mysteries of Dionysus. It is possible that water...9 KB (996 words) - 06:35, 18 April 2024
- husband and son of Persephone, has more to do with the mysteries of Dionysus than with the Eleusinian Mysteries. But a duplication of the chthonian, mystical...214 KB (24,845 words) - 20:54, 29 August 2024
- Orphism (religion) (redirect from Orphic Mysteries)said to have originated the Mysteries of Dionysus. However, Orpheus was more closely associated with Apollo than to Dionysus in the earliest sources and...34 KB (4,004 words) - 21:23, 22 August 2024
- Hades (category Eleusinian Mysteries)husband and son of Persephone, has more to do with the mysteries of Dionysus than with the Eleusinian Mysteries. But a duplication of the chthonian, mystical...84 KB (9,750 words) - 03:31, 17 August 2024
- Iacchus (category Epithets of Dionysus)'Iacchus' not only to Dionysus but also to the leader-in-chief of the mysteries". For the identification of Iacchus with Dionysus in an Orphic context...52 KB (5,462 words) - 11:27, 17 August 2024
- founded the Eleusinian Mysteries, that is the mysteries of Demeter and Persephone, and introduced the mystery cult of Dionysus, which arrived into Greece...244 KB (34,242 words) - 18:58, 27 August 2024
- Arignote (redirect from Arignote of Samos)Suda, Theano Porphyry, Life of Pythagoras, 4 Clement of Alexandria also mentions the work entitled Mysteries of Dionysus in his Stromata (iv. 19). Gilles...3 KB (215 words) - 15:31, 25 September 2023
- Orpheus (redirect from Myth of Orpheus)62, (1931):5–17. Apollodorus, 1.3.2. "Orpheus also invented the mysteries of Dionysus, and having been torn in pieces by the Maenads he is buried in Pieria...62 KB (7,636 words) - 12:04, 30 August 2024
- "Jesus Mysteries thesis". Freke and Gandy base The Jesus Mysteries thesis partly on a series of parallels between their suggested biography of Osiris-Dionysus...12 KB (1,549 words) - 22:38, 14 July 2024
- so. He used the term for the Khoiak Festival, likening it to the mysteries of Dionysus with which he was familiar, because both took place at night and...69 KB (9,431 words) - 11:45, 11 October 2023
- Nereids (category Instances of Lang-el using second unnamed parameter)land of the Aethiopians, demanding as well the sacrifice of the princess. These sea goddesses also were said to reveal to men the mysteries of Dionysus and...36 KB (2,624 words) - 00:40, 25 August 2024
- Maenad (category Companions of Dionysus)Greek: μαινάδες [maiˈnades]) were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of the thiasus, the god's retinue. Their name, which comes...40 KB (4,941 words) - 18:07, 22 August 2024
- Ancient Greek religion (redirect from End of Hellenic Religion)from place to place, like the mysteries of Dionysus. During the Hellenistic period and the Roman Empire, exotic mystery religions became widespread, not...58 KB (7,655 words) - 02:58, 18 August 2024
- Thyrsus (category Dionysus)hedonistic connotation of the thyrsus, and thereby Dionysus, in his philosophical Phaedo: I conceive that the founders of the mysteries had a real meaning...9 KB (1,043 words) - 09:54, 11 August 2024
- Ino (Greek mythology) (category Mythology of Dionysus)summoned three maenads from Thebes, from the house of Ino, to direct the new mysteries of Dionysus at Magnesia. Inoa (Ἰνῶα), there were festivals which...14 KB (1,373 words) - 03:05, 6 August 2024
- nine-year-old boy into the mysteries of Dionysus, through a mock slaying-rite. That young children were initiated into these mysteries is, he presumes, clear...3 KB (341 words) - 02:12, 16 November 2023
- Wine (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from February 2020)blood by the ancient Egyptians, and was used by both the Greek cult of Dionysus and the Romans in their Bacchanalia; Judaism also incorporates it in...120 KB (11,488 words) - 09:20, 15 August 2024
- May Day (redirect from National Day of Labour)chronicles of John Malalas, the Maiouma was a "nocturnal dramatic festival, held every three years and known as Orgies, that is, the Mysteries of Dionysus and...60 KB (7,670 words) - 17:05, 24 July 2024
- by James Frazer Chapter 43:: Dionysus 29030The Golden Bough — Chapter 43:: DionysusJames Frazer CHAPTER XLIII DIONYSUS In the preceding chapters we
- Fabric of Reality (1997). Dionysus: He who believes needs no explanation. Pentheus: What's the worth in believing worthless things? Dionysus: Much worth
- older Dionysus myths, see The Jesus Mysteries, by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy (1999). For more about Osho, see Golden Guru: The Strange Journey of Bhagwan