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Talking Dionysian Mystery Cults | Peter Mark Adams

Rune Soup

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The Initiator

The only person that we kind of know is a real person who's in the room is essentially the mistress of the house. Do you think what she represents is the metaphysical unity that the post-initiate has with the deity? The same figure occurs in Algeria, in Jamele. It's identical. What that figure does in the fresco cycle is she's sitting on a couch. But she's only sitting on half the couch and the other half disappears into the wall.

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