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Talking Dionysian Mystery Cults | Peter Mark Adams

Rune Soup

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The Importance of the Vegetation Gods

There's something about the Villa of the Mysteries that is a Rosetta Stone. As you write in the book, the artist's recognisable European to the point of honestly looking like some of the stuff I would see on my sort of Renaissance trips in Italy. But it's depicting something that goes back millennia. So it's this overlap point where we have the visual experience to engage with it.

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