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A 4 page paper which examines the cult of Dionysos.
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is the god of wine and madness, vegetation, and the theatre, and was the focus of various mystery cults" (Thompson, 2003). His story, like that of other mythical individuals, often
varies. For example, he was also seen as the god of fertility. But, the primary element of his existence involves his being the god of wine and other earthly pleasures
and as such were "widespread and popular...for century upon century" having "touched something central to human consciousness" (Harris). In the following paper we examine the cult of Dionysos.
The Cult "Boeotia was the main center for the propagation of the Dionysiac cult throughout Greece. Herodotus gives us a description of the Festival of Dionysos as practiced in his
country" and "points out that Melampus, son of Amytheon, introduced the name of Dionysos to Greece and probably got his knowledge of the worship of this god through Cadmus of
Tyre and the people who came from Phoenicia to the country called Boeotia....(M. P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled)" (The Cult of Dionysos, 2003). We note that despite the fact that "Herodotus
was ever ready to find an oriental origin for Greek religion, similar cult practices can be seen in the Dionysiac cult and Ugaritic religious literature of the second millennium B.C.
An essential rite of the Bacchic orgies was the practice of omophagia, the dismemberment of the sacrificial victim and the eating of raw flesh....(M. P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled)" (The Cult
of Dionysos, 2003). In relationship to festivals of those who were involved in the cult of Dionysos we have "Oschophoria : Puanepsion 7 (around October)" (Festivals of Dionysos, 2003).
This celebration involves the vine harvest and men carried the branches of the vine, with the grapes still attached, into town. "Hymns about the harvest and wine-making were sung. A
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