The Dionysian Mysteries were a ritual of ancient Greece and Rome which sometimes used intoxicants and other trance-inducing techniques (like dance and... 20 KB (2,438 words) - 09:58, 10 April 2024 |
included the Eleusinian mysteries, the Dionysian mysteries and the Orphic mysteries. Twice each year, initiates of the Eleusinian mysteries travelled to Eleusis... 17 KB (2,325 words) - 19:02, 17 December 2023 |
Dionysus (section Bacchic Mysteries) 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... 210 KB (24,505 words) - 06:36, 18 April 2024 |
Cult of Dionysus (redirect from Dionysian ritual) Initiates worshipped him in the Dionysian Mysteries, which were comparable to and linked with the Orphic Mysteries, and may have influenced Gnosticism... 9 KB (996 words) - 06:35, 18 April 2024 |
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... 21 KB (2,497 words) - 19:44, 2 February 2024 |
Orphism (religion) (redirect from Orphic Mysteries) the Titanic, material existence, one had to be initiated into the Dionysian mysteries and undergo teletē, a ritual purification and reliving of the suffering... 34 KB (4,004 words) - 11:42, 26 March 2024 |
religion. The mystery schools of Greco-Roman antiquity include the Eleusinian Mysteries, the Dionysian Mysteries, and the Orphic Mysteries. Some of the... 29 KB (4,191 words) - 18:08, 12 April 2024 |
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... 6 KB (586 words) - 02:10, 27 January 2024 |