 | Western Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church - 1914 - 396 pages
...flesh. Clement of Alexandria describes this feast: "The Bacchoi hold orgies in honor of a mad Dionysus, they celebrate a divine madness by the eating of raw...the distribution of the flesh of butchered victims". In other places the victim was a goat. However, in Periclean Athens, we are not to suppose that such... | |
 | Lewis Spence - History - 2007 - 257 pages
...who are the spectators at the drama of truth. The Bacchoi hold orgies in honour of a mad Dionysos, they celebrate a divine madness by the Eating of Raw...of their Bacchic orgies is a consecrated serpent." This is the horrified protest of a Christian Father who abhorred the '* pagan mysteries " and wished... | |
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...who are the spectators at the drama of truth. The Bacchoi hold orgies in honour of a mad Dionysos, they celebrate a divine madness by the Eating of Raw...their Bacchic orgies is a consecrated serpent.' And again3: ' the mysteries of Dionysos are wholly inhuman ; for while he was still a child and the Kouretes... | |
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Bacchi hold orgies in honor of a mad Dionysus. They celebrate a divine madness by the eating of raw flesh. The final accomplishment of their rite is the distribution of the flesh of butchered victims. 