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>>12883

Fuck off KIKE

Nietzsche was VERY WISE and GREENPILLED

<The mystery consisted in the participation of the bacchanates in the total epiphany of Dionysus. The rites are celebrated at night, far from cities, in the mountains and forests. Through the sacrifice of the victim by tearing it to pieces (sparmagos) and the consumption of raw flesh (omophagia), the communion with the god is realized. For the animals that are torn apart and devoured are epiphanies, or incarnations, of Dionysus…. That among these freedoms there also figured deliverance from prohibitions, rules, and conventions of an ethical and social order appears to be certain - which explains, in part, the mass adherence of women.^14 (Teiresias defends the god: "Dionysus does not oblige women to be chaste. Chastity depends on character, and the woman who is naturally chaste will take part in his orgies without being corrupted")

- Mircea Eliade, A History of Religious Ideas Vol 1. Euripides and Dionysiac orgiasm

>>15203

<In ca. 186 the authorities discovered, with suprise and indignation, the existence in Rome itself of bacchanalia, that is, of nocturnal "orgiastic mysteries." The cult of Dionysus had become widely disseminated in the Mediterranean world, especially in the Hellenistic period. Following the Roman conquest of Magna Graecia, esoteric associations of mystai spread through the peninsula, especially in Campania. Indeed, it was a Campanian priestess-seeress who had introduced into Rome a secret cult, modified according to her own directions and including certain rites comparable to those of the Mysteries. In consequence of a denunciaiton that was immediately made public by the consul, an investigation revealed the size of cult and its origastic character. Its adherents, who numbered 7,000 were accused of many abominations: not only did they swear to reveal nothing, but they practiced pederasty and organized murders in order to obtain fortunes. The rites were performed in the greatest secrecy. According to Livy (39. 13. 12), men, their bodies tossing as if demented, uttered prophecies; women "in the dress of bacchantes, with disheveled hair," ran to the Tiber, "carrying blazing torches," which they thrust into the water and withdrew still on fire, for "they contained live sulphur mixed with calcium."^53 (They were further accused of causing those who refused to join their crimes and debauches to disappear in some horrible manner [Livy, 39. 13. 13])

- Mircea Eliade, A History of Religious Ideas Vol 2. Roman Religion, Crises and catastrophes

>>15206

<The Greeks knew the Thracian names of Dionysus; those most commonly used were Sabos and Sabazius. The cult of the Thracian "Dionysus" is reminiscent of the rites presented by Euripides in the Bacchae. The ceremonies took place at night, in the mountains, by torchlight; a wild music (the sounds of bronze caldrons, cymbals and flutes) inspired believers to joyous outcries and to dances in furious circles. "It was especially women who indulged in these disorderly and exhausting dances; their costume was strange; they wore "bessares," long, floating garments made, it seems, from foxskins; above those, deerskins, and probably horns on their heads." In their hands they held snakes consecrated to Sabazius, daggers, or thyrsi. Attaining paroxysm, "sacred madness," they seized animals chosen to be sacrificed and tore to pieces, eating raw flesh. This ritual omophagy produced identification with the god; the participants now called themselves Sabos or Sabazius.

- Mircea Eliade, A History of Religious Ideas Vol 2. Celts, Germans, Thracians, Getae: The Thracians, "great anonyms" of history

>>15222

>Livy and Euripidies' Bacchae isn't a valid source

no u