The Dionysian Mysteries were a ritual of ancient Greece and Rome which sometimes used intoxicants and other trance-inducing techniques (like dance and...

included the Eleusinian mysteries, the Dionysian mysteries and the Orphic mysteries. Twice each year, initiates of the Eleusinian mysteries travelled to Eleusis...

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...

Initiates worshipped him in the Dionysian Mysteries, which were comparable to and linked with the Orphic Mysteries, and may have influenced Gnosticism...

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...

initiation of a woman into matrimony in accordance with the Dionysian Mysteries, a mystery cult devoted to the god known to the Romans as Bacchus. Specific...

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the Titanic, material existence, one had to be initiated into the Dionysian mysteries and undergo teletē, a ritual purification and reliving of the suffering...

Mystery religions, mystery cults, sacred mysteries or simply mysteries, were religious schools of the Greco-Roman world for which participation was reserved...

associated with the Maenads or Bacchantes, followers of Dionysus, and the Dionysian Mysteries. Examples of sparagmos appear in Euripides's play The Bacchae. In...