Greek Mythology Picspam

Greek mythology picspam

Dionysus (Διόνυσος), → Dionysus is known as Bacchus by the Romans,  was the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness and  ecstasyin Greek mythology.  His central cult imagery shows his triumphant, disorderly arrival or return. His procession (thiasus) is made up of wild female followers (maenads) and bearded satyrs, and the god himself is drawn in a chariot, usually by exotic beasts such as lions or tigers.

“As it is, the Greek story has it that no sooner was Dionysus born than Zeus sewed him up in his thigh and carried him away to Nysa in Ethiopia beyond Egypt”.

People say I’m mad. I say I’m Maenad. LOL

I'm gonna poke you in the third eye with my Thyrsus.

An elk, which died with its antlers stuck in a tree (probably from spring jumping and fighting with another buck). With no natural predators left, it died and rotted undisturbed, with only birds and insects to clean its bones, leaving the legaments intact.

Picture stumbling into this in the dark…

MAENAD

[noun]

1. Greek mythology: the female followers of Dionysus (Bacchus in the Roman pantheon), the most significant members of the Thiasus, the god’s retinue. Their name literally translates as “raving ones”. Often the maenads were portrayed as inspired by Dionysus into a state of ecstatic frenzy, through a combination of dancing and drunken intoxication.

2. a frenzied woman.

Etymology: Greek μαινάδες, mainádes. Latin Maenas, from Greek mainas - madwoman.

[Glyn Smith]