His frenzied female devotees were called maenads, or, from his other name, Bacchus, bacchantes
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DIONYSUS (Dionysos) - Greek God of Wine & Festivity (Roman ...  His other attributes included a drinking-cup (kantharos), fruiting grapevines ... Dionysos' sacred animals were the panther (leopard), tiger, bull and serpent. ... Devotees of the god wore wreaths of ivy and carried pine-cone tipped staffs. ..... "[The Boiotian Bacchantes] called on Bacchus [Dionysos] by his many noble names:...
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Maenad - Wikipedia  In Greek mythology, maenads were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of the Thiasus, the god's retinue. Their name literally translates as "raving ones." Maenads were known as Bassarids, Bacchae /bki/ or Bacchantes ... His corpse is mutilated by his own mother, Agave, who tears off his head,...
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Maenads  The Maenads (pronounced Maynads) were female revelors in the cult of Dionysus. The god's frenzied Thracian worshippers, the Maenads, accompanied Dionysus on his travels crowned ... These devotees were called Bacchants and Bacchantes or Maenads. ... Dionysus' worship is tied closely to his role as god of wine.
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Show #4594 - Thursday, July 22, 2004 - J! Archive  Mother Teresa knew that this was the answer to the math problem of what 2 minus 2 equals ... His frenzied female devotees were called maenads, or, from his other name, Bacchus, bacchantes...
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Maenads and Bacchantes | Eric Edwards Collected Works  Sep 4, 2014 ... The Maenads or Mainades, the 'raving ones' of Greek mythology are the female devotees, attendants or followers of the god Dionysus called Bacchus by the ... Other descriptions are Clodones and Bacchanals. ... by the god Dionysus and accompanied him on his travels and journeys to ... Name (required).
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THE CONFESSIONS of SAINT AUGUSTINE - sparks@eserver.org  men call on Thee with extreme dread), mocking at those by whom they are ...... most part the habit of satisfying an insatiable appetite tormented, while it held me...
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Aeneid - Documents - Docslide.us  Oct 14, 2014 ... Aeneas urges the Trojan archer Pandarus to help him attack this unknown warrior. ..... warning Aeneas to demand the personal guidance of the Cumaean Sibyl ...... 125 Calchas withdrew into silence for ten days, wouldn't surrender ..... Here, alas, was Cassandra, the virgin daughter of Priam, Dragged by...
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I ...  Of what avail is it to add his name and surname, which he himself does not desire ...... and Bishop of St. _Andrews_ in _Scotland_, studied, who chose _Erasmus_ for ...... _ There was a Knot of Neighbours of us drinking together, and when the Wine ...... For _Bacchus_ is of a fiery Constitution naturally, but he is made more...
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Nymphs - Women in Greek Myths  Jul 16, 2011 ... They cared for the goddess's sacred deer. ... They were the hunting companions of Artemis. ... So I suppose you could call them Sheep Nymphs. .... So when the river-god Alpheus pursued her, Artemis helped her out by turning her .... wept so much she was turned into a always-flowing fountain, or accepted...
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Bacchanalian Stock Photos & Bacchanalian Stock Images - Alamy  Dionysus, Greek god of the vines. Exhibit at the Eden Project. - Stock Dionysus ... Dionysus the god of wine. Bacchanalian dance sculpture, the Eden Project,...
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Heavy Metal Madness: Sinners and the Saints that Protect Us ...  Oct 14, 2004 ... My favorite patron saint, Dymphna, was hit on by her own father and eventually killed by him. She is the patroness of sleepwalking, mental illness, incest, ... Either way, he is the patron saint against procrastination and for people who ... and pictured men and women fighting devils, snakes, and evil of all...
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Michelangelo's Statue of a Drunk | The Best Artists  Apr 18, 2008 ... Bacchus is Michelangelos first important statue and one of the few he ever ... Florence, Italy; a Wikimedia Commons photo published here The empty, ... It's probably more in keeping with other images I've seen of the drunken satyr theme. ... Bacchus was, (as Dionysus was,) the god of wine, carnal and...
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Luke 8:2 and also some women who had been cured of evil spirits ...  and certain women who had been cured from evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who is called ... and sicknesses: Mary, called Magdalene (seven demons had come out of her); ... who is called Magdalitha, she from whom seven demons had gone out ... But all those who knew Jesus, including the women who had followed Him...
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Perseus Under Philologic: Ov. Met. 8  the daughter of king Nisus loved to mount the walls and strike the .... So great a monster shall not be allowed ... Armenian tigress;or Charybdis, tossed ... and for his love immortalized her name. ... but while he labored a pert partridge near, .... my lawful right, and I rejoice to share ..... in that same cottage and had lived in it,
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder  The Sociopathic Style  ... word. One day she enabled the escape of the goddess Juno's adulterous husband by ... One day as she lingered in the bushes he heard her footsteps and called out Who's here? ... I would rather die than you should have me! ... The gods grew tired of his behaviour and cursed Narcissus. ... As he did so Echo also cried.
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Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender. Vol 2 DI-Thomson-Gale.pdf - Scribd  1998. the pilgrim-poet offers a meditation on lovecourtly love and the dolce stil .... Binghamton. and laypersons. also known as the Daode jing (fourth century ...... Audiences had to wait for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte to ... The Reprobate Punished. actions. in which demons seize the unrepentant Don...
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Sample Chapter for Garber, M.: Patronizing the Arts.  Jun 18, 2008 ... From the time of Maecenas, a wealthy Etruscan noble who supported Virgil .... Is not a Patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life ... However, a new mode of display, the exhibition, created an ... new art.8 Here is the classic formulation of Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, an author...
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PSYCHE (Psykhe) - Greek Goddess of the Soul  Eros hid his true identity and told Psykhe she must never gaze upon his face. ... Psyche was the youngest of the three daughters of some king, and excited by her .... ashes, the high note of the wedding-lute sank into the plaintive Lydian mode, ..... you with enticing food, and that as soon as your womb has filled out and your...
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Short Celtic God List - Draeconin  He had a harp that made irresistible music, and his kisses turned into birds that ... in danger of losing their wits, sit three times and they would lose them forever. ... Dn was known, in the Celtic World, by several similar names: Danu or Anu being .... Also the consort of the Dagda, by whom she was the mother of the love god...
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Metamorphoses Project: Dionysos :: Modern Myth Analysis  Go Loudly, Pentheus (Raine) - Bacchus (Emerson) - Bacchus (Caravaggio). 1. .... In Greek Lyric II The Anacreontea, it is written, Let us be merry and drink and sing of .... the old Greek version of Dionysos does not seem to be depicted here.
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Maenad - Wikipedia  In Greek mythology, maenads were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant ... These scenes show the maenads in their frenzy running in the forests, often tearing to pieces any animal they happen to come across. ... Cultist rites associated with worship of the Greek god of wine, Dionysus (or Bacchus in...