Bacchanalia zero

HISTORICAL CHARACTERS AND WINE, RECREATION AND ENTERTAINMENT

That comes to you son, and asks: “pa, and tell me about the orgy” – what you tell him? But parental authority depends on the little things, like awareness of the ancient orgiastic cults. “I had a friend … So here it is, if what his father asked – always got a full, no discount on childhood response. Ask why airplanes fly – in response to a lecture on aerodynamics. Wondered why the snow white – gets excursion into the visual system of mammals and the physics of light. I’ll try and I in the same style to tell about the orgy (no, not his, but those old).

Originally orgy – this is such a furious devishnik, which took place on Mount Parnassus, in Greece every two years (men allowed to participate in the mysteries in honor of Dionysus-Bacchus later). Women “from all over the country” went to the mountains and spent the night there. How exactly are they doing? Core Bacchic cult are three things:

- Dancing in the mountains

- Tearing apart snakes and small animals

- Eating raw flesh

Women – the principal of the action participants did it all covered with ecstasy, from which came out at once. Along the way they could make raids on nearby villages and indulged in all sorts of excesses. All this is amply illustrated works of Greek art:

Thus can say that the orgy – it is simply a collective dances in a state of religious ecstasy. We can handle what you want speculation, but in my opinion, the easiest way to comprehend this ceremony, comparing it with practices of other nations and find him a parallel in the modern world.

Parallels in other nations

Comparing the orgy of the rituals of other peoples, scientists reveal a few things that do not change over from era to era and from culture to culture:

- Composition of musical instruments, which are accompanied by wild dancing. This pipe, pipe (flute) and drum. Regardless of geography in the trans are under their accompaniment.

- Very characteristic gesture of a dance – the chaotic winding head and tilting it back – both on the central image above. The missionaries saw exactly the same dance of cannibals in British Columbia just before the tender mercies of people. And also looks like a clinical description of patient hysteria

- Tearing apart and eating of animals, as well as all sorts of manipulations with the snakes, too, are not unique. In British Columbia, dancer, dancing with burning coals in his hands, flexing them boldly and even puts in his mouth; such facts are recorded in South Africa, as well as on Sumatra. In Siam and Siberia dancer said that his body is invulnerable – until it dwells God. The doctors found that such an explanation: the hysterical attacks during the blunted sensitivity to pain. As for the snakes – some holding the hands of live snakes can be a powerful factor in religious excitement, as evidenced by a description of the rituals of the Christian community in the remote mining villages in the districts of Leslie and Perry , Kentucky.

Bacchanalia today

Find a crowd of women enrolled in the religious hysteria now? But at any rock concert. What, if not the words “religious ecstasy” can be described by the expression of these women, where Elvis pours his white scarves:

Member bacchanalian raided neighboring villages. It is also very similar to the pogroms of football hooligans, the psychological state of which, I think, very close to that experienced members of Bacchic cults.

Some kind of orgy you can find a carnival samba in Rio during which the natives prefer to leave the city.

Bacchanalian idea was to “help” Dionysus to return from the dead, so again in the spring and with it – agricultural cycle. It would seem – what nonsense: is it depends on the person coming of spring? And if the harvest depends on whether you proplyashesh with her girlfriends or not? But the success of the new company is not connected with the fact I will consecrate his father or not. Just as the fate of a new vehicle does not depend on whether razobyut on his side a bottle of champagne. The solidarity of all forms of life – a very important concept for the primitive mentality is common now.

The old gods against the new gods

U Dionysus, the god of wine, had two incarnation: it is a dark bearded militant, or relaxed, feminine boy:

In modern gods, too, usually several canonical images. Lenin – a formidable leader of the proletariat, or sitting on a mound of earth with children a good old man:

Thus Bacchic cult in no prejudice, no single trait that can not be found adequate parallels in the modern consciousness. About ancient bacchantes can say that they were “fan” of Dionysus. Female fans of pop stars include modern Bacchantes. So, if your son asks what orgy – send it to the concert of Dima Bilan.

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