testing, 1.2.3 ... Read this list on the Web at http://www.makelist.com/list/dionysos-l/ To unsubscribe, email to dionysos-l-unsubscribe@... To...
Bon Johnston
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Aug 2, 1998 4:36 am
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... This is very true -- Dionysos was not exactly seen as embodying civilized behavior. And while the maenad was the most prominent image put forth for...
bonfire@...
Aug 3, 1998 6:06 pm
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... I read the other day that Nietschze (sp?) discussed the dualism of "Christ vs. Dionysos". This would put Christ in the "Apollo" position --- the (modern)...
Peter L. Schuerman
schuermanp@...
Aug 3, 1998 7:03 pm
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93 Bon: Let me first state that I have been working 70+ hours a week & remaining a active parent for a 3 year old and a 1 year old. At times I may phrase...
xendaths
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Aug 4, 1998 3:15 am
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93 Sasa: ... Literally, it means God of Nysus - which I believe was a city in Northwestern Greece, (I get confused on the Geography). -- 93 93/93 Thee...
xendaths
xendaths@...
Aug 4, 1998 4:00 pm
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... Dionysus was the son of Semele and Zeus. In Greek dio (=twice) and nysso (=to open) thus, twice born or twice removed from birth. One mythical tradition...
Spiro Hamilothoris
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Aug 4, 1998 5:42 pm
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93 Spiro: ... This could also tie in with the Orphic tradition of Dionysus being the Son of Persephone and Zues, who was killed by the Titans, Zues ate the ...
xendaths
xendaths@...
Aug 4, 1998 6:06 pm
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Just joined this excellent list. Some of you already know me from Amber's Hellenic Pagan list, but for those who don't, my name is Karen Michalson, and my...
Point Of Ares
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Aug 4, 1998 7:58 pm
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... Yeouch! My hat is off to you for even being able to do that and read email, let alone have time to respond! And of course, no offense taken. :) You...
Bonnie L. Johnston
bonfire@...
Aug 5, 1998 3:35 am
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... Sorry for the correction, but it was not Zeus who ate the heart of the child-god Bakchos. The most common story is that when the Titans had torn Bakchos...
Alastor
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Aug 5, 1998 6:15 am
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Someone on another list posted this as a resource for the Eleusinian Mysteries -- I'm cross-posting it here in case there are people here who are interested. ...
Bonnie L. Johnston
bonfire@...
Aug 5, 1998 2:58 pm
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Point Of Ares
ares@...
Aug 7, 1998 4:37 pm
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... That is because, as with most of the Llewellyn fabricated ancient traditions, this one was created by taking popular accounts of the modern witchcraft...
Tim Maroney
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Aug 21, 1998 4:18 pm
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... Exactly! On my website, check out my "About Point Of Ares" page. There is a description there of how and why POA views Apollo and Dionysus as two aspects...
Point Of Ares
ares@...
Aug 21, 1998 4:38 pm
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There is very little Christ-like about Dionysus as he appears in Nonnus' 21000 line epic on his career. At the end he ascends to Olympus after competing his...
Ron Newbold
rnewbold@...
Aug 21, 1998 12:17 am
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... Which is particularly interesting since Nonnos is believed to have become a Christian after writing his ponderous Dionysiaca (the last epic poem of ...
Tim Maroney
tim@...
Aug 21, 1998 12:31 am
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Dear Bakkhiades, I'm new on the list. My name is Dominique (a man) Thillaud, but I like to just use the Greek diminutive Menegos. I'm 56. Despite my job (to...
Dominique.Thillaud
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Aug 24, 1998 9:39 pm
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... I think the first clue is to look at how Apollo and Dionysos was used at Delphi. From the Spring Equinox until the eve of the Fall Equinox, it was Apollo...
Alastor
Alastor@...
Aug 24, 1998 11:49 pm
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Agapiti Lolandrea, ... We can't consider all the minor Goddesses to be Artemis! Artemis is a virgin, Apollo's sister, extremely well characterized by the...
Dominique.Thillaud
thillaud@...
Aug 26, 1998 2:29 pm
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... May be, I don't know. It's sometimes difficult in the Veda text to distinguish between the God Soma and the soma-plant. But the word 'soma' is the juice...
Dominique.Thillaud
thillaud@...
Aug 26, 1998 2:29 pm
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... Oh, very much so, I think. "This is my church. This is where I heal my hurts. God is a DJ." I feel that the raves are an unconscious response to the primal...
Jeannette Simpson
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Aug 26, 1998 2:44 pm
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... One of the effects of ivy is intense excitation, which is generally followed by difficult breathing and then a comatose state. It's possible that both a...
Peter L. Schuerman
schuermanp@...
Aug 26, 1998 9:57 pm
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... Yes: an effect of saponins who are highly poisonous. But the Indians used a complex recipe; we know about it: pressing out between stones, filtering and...
Dominique.Thillaud
thillaud@...
Aug 27, 1998 5:04 am
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... Khairete all.... ... I did *NOT* say they were the same goddess. Unlike some people in the New Age community, I am a stauch polytheist. I said that there...
Lolandrea
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Aug 27, 1998 11:18 pm
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This is very much the approach of Peter Lemesurier in his book The Healing of the Gods (Element Books 1988). Lemesurier outlines what he calls theotherapy,...
Ron Newbold
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Aug 28, 1998 12:28 am
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Polyagapimeni Lolandrea & Dominique, Thelema ! ... could ... Definately all trances are not the same, and even the method of incurring the trance differs. For...
Alastor
Alastor@...
Aug 28, 1998 10:15 am
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Khaire Alastor! You wrote ... You're against the common scholarly tradition that set the interval between the apodemia and the epidemia of Apollo in the 3...
Dominique.Thillaud
thillaud@...
Aug 29, 1998 12:48 pm
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Dear Sheila, You wrote ... You're right. I was too fastly writing. There undoubtly a link between Artemis and the delivery's dangers. The garments of the women...
Dominique.Thillaud
thillaud@...
Aug 29, 1998 12:48 pm
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... I'm a little puzzled... what was it in Lolandrea's comments that motivated you to say this? Was there some implication about Artemis in them that I ...
Paige Foster
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Aug 29, 1998 5:32 pm
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... You seem to be combining two of the theories as to how the Pythia went into her trance state, and calling this a fact. The two prevailing theories are...