
Talking Dionysian Mystery Cults | Peter Mark Adams
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The Ecstatic Manadism of Dionysus
There is no evidence for wild manadism whatsoever in the cult itself. So it has become, you know, through writers, including people like Nietzsche, a kind of literary theme or trope that this wildManadism needs to be positioned in relation to the social and cultural life of people. There's no other single reference to this behaviour in the entire corpus of Dionysian-themed art. But I'm trying to find out whether so much orphism seems so watered down. And we can blame Plato for some of that, to be honest,. It's so curious to have something that has so many frequent kind of anti-fun bodies over an ecstatic nocturnal drug taking cult
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