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DIONYSIAN: Pagan Denominations Dictionary on DIONYSIAN

DIONYSIAN: In religious studies, describes "lunar- or nature-oriented" religions that emphasize the ecstatic and emotional aspects, and the liberating of the psyche from the limitations of mundane consciousness, to enable union with the "group mind", or collective consciousness of the group (named for Dionysus, the Greek God of wine and Ecstasy).

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DIONYSIAN: Magickal Traditions Dictionary on DIONYSIAN

DIONYSIAN: In religious studies, describes "lunar- or nature-oriented" religions that emphasize the ecstatic and emotional aspects, and the liberating of the psyche from the limitations of mundane consciousness, to enable union with the "group mind", or collective consciousness of the group (named for Dionysus, the Greek God of wine and Ecstasy).

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DIONYSIAN: Encyclopedia II - Dionysian Mysteries - The Emergence and Evolution of the Dionysian Mysteries

The idea of a Mystery Religion was essentially of a series of initiations which benefited the individual or their society in some way. Initially associated with the passage from childhood to adulthood and maturity, they later became seem as what we might call an evolutionary rite. And it was in the form of a Mystery Religion that the Dionysos Cult was first channelled in a more civilised way, probably first in Minoan Crete. The notion behind the Dionysian Mysteries seems to have been of not only the affirmation of the primeval bestial ...

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DIONYSIAN: Encyclopedia - Lyre

A lyre is a stringed musical instrument well known for its use in Classical Antiquity. The recitations of the Ancient Greeks were accompanied by it. According to ancient Greek mythology, the young god Hermes created the lyre from the body of a large tortoise shell (khelus) which he covered with animal hide and antelope horns. Lyres were associated with Apollonian virtues of moderation and equilibrium, contrasting the Dionysian pipes ...

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DIONYSIAN: Encyclopedia - The Birth of Tragedy

The Birth of Tragedy (Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik, 1872) is a 19th Century work of philosophy by Friedrich Nietzsche. The full title translates as The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music. The Birth of Tragedy - The book. In this book, Nietzsche, originally educated as a classicist, discusses the history of the Greek tragedy, and introduces an intellectual dichotomy between the Dionysian and the Apollonian (very loosely: wild emotion or sensation vs. calm reas ...

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DIONYSIAN: Encyclopedia - Charles Willard Moore

Charles Willard Moore (October 31, 1925 in Benton Harbor, Michigan – December 16, 1993 in Austin, Texas) was an American architect, educator, writer, and winner of the AIA Gold Medal in 1991. Charles Willard Moore - Biography. Moore graduated from the University of Michigan in 1947 and took his PhD from Princeton University in 1957. He was Dean of the Yale School of Architecture from 1965 through 1970, directly after the tenure of Paul Rudolph. Moore's somewhat Dionysian personality and his dedica ...

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DIONYSIAN: Encyclopedia - Dionysia

The Dionysia was a large religious festival in ancient Athens in honour of the god Dionysus, the central event of which was the performance of tragedies and comedies. It was the second-most important festival after the Panathenaia. The Dionysia was actually comprised of two related festivals, the Rural Dionysia and the City Dionysia, which took place in different parts of the year. They were also an essential part of the Dionysian Mysteries. Dionysia - Rural Dionysia. The Dionysia was original ...

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Dionysia - Sources

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DIONYSIAN: Encyclopedia - Camille Paglia

Camille Anna Paglia (born April 2, 1947 in Endicott, New York) is a social critic, author, and a believer of Amazon Feminism. She is University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Paglia is an intellectual of many apparent contradictions: a classicist who champions art both high and low, with a view that human nature is inherently dangerous, while at the same time celebrating dionysian re ...

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DIONYSIAN: Encyclopedia - Vyacheslav Ivanov

Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (Russian: Вячеслав Иванович Иванов) (February 16 (28), 1866–July 16, 1949) was a Russian poet and playwright associated with the movement of Russian Symbolism. He was also a philosopher, translator, and literary critic. Born in Moscow, Ivanov graduated from the First Moscow Gymnasium with a gold medal and entered the Moscow University where he studied history and philosophy under Sir Paul Vinogradoff. In 1886 he moved to the Berlin University to study Roman law and econ ...

DIONYSIAN: Encyclopedia - Transfiguration

The word Transfiguration means a changing of appearance or form. In Christianity The Transfiguration is a miraculous event in the Synoptic Gospel accounts of Jesus (Matthew 17:1–6, Mark 9:1–8, Luke 9:28–36): Jesus led three of his apostles, Peter, John, and James, to pray at the top of a mountain, where he became transfigured, with his face shining like the sun, and with brilliant white clothes; Elijah and Moses appeared with Jesus, and talked with him, and then a bright cloud appeared overhead, and a voice from cloud pro ...

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DIONYSIAN: Encyclopedia - Dionysus

Dionysus or Dionysos (Ancient Greek: Διώνυσος or Διόνυσος; also known as Bacchus in both Greek and Roman mythology and associated with the Italic Liber), the Thracian god of wine, represents not only the intoxicating power of wine, but also its social and beneficent influences. He is viewed as the promoter of civilization, a lawgiver, and lover of peace — as well as the patron deity of both agriculture and the theater. Greeks borrowed Dionysus' figure and within the Olympian tradition he i ...

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DIONYSIAN: Encyclopedia - Satyr

In Greek mythology, Satyrs (Greek: Σάτυροι, Sáturoi) are mythological half-man and half-goat nature entities that roamed the woods and mountains, and were the companions of Pan and Dionysus. Satyr - Mythology. Satyrs are most commonly described as having the upper half of a man and the lower half of a goat or, less commonly, the lower half of a horse. They are also described as possesing a long thick tail, either that of a goat or horse. Mature Satyrs are often depicted with goa ...

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DIONYSIAN: Encyclopedia - Alfred Richard Orage

Alfred Richard Orage (1873 – 1934) was a British intellectual, now best known for editing the magazine The New Age. Alfred Richard Orage - Early life. Born in Dacre, West Riding of Yorkshire into a nonconformist religious family, he became a schoolteacher and joined the Independent Labour Party, writing for their paper on philosophy, including in particular the thought of Plato and Edward Carpenter, By the late 1890s, Orage was disillusioned with socialism and turned for a while to theosophy ...

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DIONYSIAN: Encyclopedia - Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, also known as pseudo-Denys, is the name scholars have given to an anonymous theologian and philosopher of the 5th century, who wrote a collection of books, the Corpus Areopagiticum, falsely ascribed to the Dionysius mentioned in Acts 17:34. The author was historically believed to be the Areopagite because he claimed acquaintance with biblical characters. Georgian academician Shalva Nutsubidze and Belgian professor Ernest Honigmann were authors of a theory identifying pseudo-Dionysius the ...

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DIONYSIAN: Encyclopedia - Computus

Computus (Latin for computation) is the calculation of the date of Easter in the Christian calendar. The name has been used for this procedure since the early Middle Ages, as it was one of the most important computations of the age. The canonical rule is that Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the 14th day of the lunar month (the nominal full moon) that falls on or after 21 March (nominally the day of the vernal equinox). For determining the feast, Christian churches settled on a method to define a reckoned "ecclesiastic" ...

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Computus - Algorithms

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DIONYSIAN: Encyclopedia II - Dionysian Mysteries - The Mystery Rites

The Dionysian Mysteries are believed to have consisted of two sets of rites, the secret rites of initiation just outlined and the outer public, or Dionysia The public rites are generally held to be the most ancient of the two. Dionysian Mysteries - The Public Rites. In Athens and the Attica of the Classical period the main festivities were held in the month of Elaphebolion (around the time of the Spring Equinox) where the Greater, or City, Dionysia had evolved into a great drama festival - Di ...

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