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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...

Dionysus-Osiris, alongside Cleopatra as Isis-Aphrodite. In the controversial book The Jesus Mysteries, Osiris-Dionysus is claimed to be the basis of Jesus...

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...

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...

said to have originated the Mysteries of Dionysus. However, Orpheus was more closely associated with Apollo than to Dionysus in the earliest sources and...

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...

'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...

founded the Eleusinian Mysteries, that is the mysteries of Demeter and Persephone, and introduced the mystery cult of Dionysus, which arrived into Greece...

Suda, Theano Porphyry, Life of Pythagoras, 4 Clement of Alexandria also mentions the work entitled Mysteries of Dionysus in his Stromata (iv. 19). Gilles...

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...

"Jesus Mysteries thesis". Freke and Gandy base The Jesus Mysteries thesis partly on a series of parallels between their suggested biography of Osiris-Dionysus...

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...

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...

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...

from place to place, like the mysteries of Dionysus. During the Hellenistic period and the Roman Empire, exotic mystery religions became widespread, not...

hedonistic connotation of the thyrsus, and thereby Dionysus, in his philosophical Phaedo: I conceive that the founders of the mysteries had a real meaning...

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...

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...

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...

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...