"cult" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Various religions, like the cult of Isis in Egypt and the Dionysian cult of Greece, practiced their own forms of flagellation.
- If it was imported from Italy then, a relic of a Dionysian cult which had survived there, it could easily have survived in England; or it could have been imported from France by the Normans far earlier.
- One could observe entirely preserved vessels, e.g. sealed oenochoai representing scenes of the Dionysian cult - Silenus abducts a menade, a Satyr's masque.
- By its nature as a mystery religion reserved for the initiated, many aspects of the Dionysian cult remain unknown and were lost with the decline of Greco-Roman polytheism; our knowledge is derived from descriptions, imagery and cross-cultural studies.
- The thyrsus is explicitly attributed to Dionysus in Euripides's play The Bacchae as part of the costume of the Dionysian cult.
- Silenus commonly figures in Roman bas-reliefs of the train of Dionysus, a subject for sarcophagi, embodying the transcendent promises of Dionysian cult.
- The god Dionysus is especially seductive to actors and playwrights since, historically, theater in the West either developed out of the Dionysian cult or grew up alongside it.
- Mithraism, the Eleusinian cult at Athens, the Dionysian cults, etc. all had age-old shamanic techniques for inducing neurosomatic rapture; Christianity(at first) seems to have been superior in creating neurosomaticcontrol.
- This etymology indicates a link with the practices of the ancient Dionysian cults.
- Their king, Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), whose mother adhered to the Dionysian cult, developed a reputation for inebriety.
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