Why do #satyrs in visual representations of the #dionysos cult so often have the face of Socrates?

December 5th is the Roman #Faunalia feast of #Faunus #Pan #Fauns #Satyrs: #Antinous knew them when they hung with #Apollo, who became Saint Nicholas! Read about the true origins of Santa Claus and #Krampus: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2022/12/meet-santas-helpers-krampus-and.html

#Antinous #Satyrday! The 1st Saturday of the month is sacred to #Silenus and #Satyrs. This dancing #satyr thrillingly twirls his throbbing #thyrsus at the Naples Archaeological Museum's #GabinettoSegreto (Secret Cabinet).

1/n Thanks to Prof. Voth`s lectures maybe got an understanding of one aspect of the dionysian myth.

The mystical place #Nysa is a wildernis outside the realm of civilisation of man, a place in the mountains where #Dionysos was raised by the #Nymphs and later returns with his #Maenads and #Satyrs to celebrate and dance.

As a #chtonic deity who travels between the underworld, the midworld and the heavens, for he is one of the #Olympians it is possible that Nysa could be understood as part...

Enjoy! Rejoice!

#DaemoniaNymphe playing "Dance of the #Satyrs" live in the #Piraeus Academy in #Athens, #Greece

#pagan #dionysian #music #greek #hellenismos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4uXZib6TkA

6. #Satyrs (שָׂעִיר֙)
Isaiah 13
"But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there."

Isaiah 34
"And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; yea, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest"