It’s been too long since someone declared themselves a living god, which is why I am claiming #Dionysus. I shall party and wear leopard print. Who wants to be one of my #Maenads? You get to hang out with me in the woods, drink #wine, and tear apart those who oppress you with your bare hands! #missartworldsouthdakota

[Description: A snarky artist wearing leopard print holds a bunch of grapes in their right hand and a glass of Prosecco in their left as a spotlight illuminates the red room.]

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...

#WalterOtto draws a connection from the #dionysian #maenads and their frenzy and ecstacy to the medieval phaenomenon of #Tanzwut or in english #dancingmania.
#Paracelsus (1492-1541 CE) wrote about this, naming it #choreomania.
It is a psychic epidemic which forces the befallen to dance till exhaustion and breakdown or death.

The #dyonisanorgies were probably more like religious choreomania and spiritual ecstasy and sexual of a certain kind than our todays imagination of a penetration orgy.