It seems like they sacrificed bulls A LOT in ancient times. The more I read for HHC, it’s like every day was a festival and every festival needed a bull😂 There was one goddess who got chickens…. But i forget which, maybe Hestia?
Well, bulls (and rams and billys) are expendable...it's not Greco-Roman, but in Ireland the first day of spring (Imbolc, February 2) coincided with the lambing...and the ram lambs were slaughtered for fresh meat and the ewes milked for milk and cheese. Calving comes later in the year, so bull calves (or older bulls for culling) would be plentiful at certain times.
It would actually be more surprising (and probably a bigger sacrifice in terms of cost) if they'd killed cows (or ewes or nannys)...
Dionysian rites
Pomp and circumstance, performed
Once the bull is slain
Oh I love this! A little sacrifice scene🖤
Well, they sacrificed a bull before the drama contests at every Dionysia…
It seems like they sacrificed bulls A LOT in ancient times. The more I read for HHC, it’s like every day was a festival and every festival needed a bull😂 There was one goddess who got chickens…. But i forget which, maybe Hestia?
Well, bulls (and rams and billys) are expendable...it's not Greco-Roman, but in Ireland the first day of spring (Imbolc, February 2) coincided with the lambing...and the ram lambs were slaughtered for fresh meat and the ewes milked for milk and cheese. Calving comes later in the year, so bull calves (or older bulls for culling) would be plentiful at certain times.
It would actually be more surprising (and probably a bigger sacrifice in terms of cost) if they'd killed cows (or ewes or nannys)...
It’s writing a short story in spurts.
Well, this was fun!!
∞ Grape-dark sea of time
Myths bob like corks, half-sunken
We drink. We drown. We …
∞ Ritual frenzy:
(Theatre of cruelty?)
[Artaud nods, offstage]
∞ Dionysus dances
On the edge of language, where
Syntax stumbles, drunk
∞ Leopard skin, thyrsus
Symbols spill from broken urns
We piece god together
∞ Vine tendrils / synapses
Intoxication rewrites
The brain's old grammar
∞ Euripides whispers:
"Madness is a kind of wisdom"
Dionysus winks
∞ In wine, veritas?
Or just the blur of boundaries?
(Footnote: Ask Nietzsche)
∞ Ritual madness
Peels back civilization's bark
Raw sap of being
∞ Maenads' ecstasy:
Body language speaks in tongues
Reason stands mute, watches
∞ Divine / Mortal
The slash bleeds into both sides
We drink the mixture
∞ Theatre mask grins
Behind it, Dionysus
Or is it us?
Madness bookended by brilliance! I love these! The first and last are my faves🖤
The master of the revels, he retained his importance in Roman mythology as Bacchus.
Haha the Romans loved a bit of wine and violence.
Maenads tear plump grapes
with filed teeth, and awaken
with men's blood on lips
🍇
Orpheus fell foul
of the wild sisters, and met
his end torn to strips
🍇
Hear women singing?
The sisters, drunk on vintage
staggering this way
🫣Don’t want to meet them in a dark alley. I love this mini narrative🖤
Spilled wine and laughter
blur into wild confusion
and broken green glass.
Sounds a little ominous😬 Very nicely set scene!
A sip of the brew
I fall victim to its hues
and madness ensues
Oh I like what you did with the rhymes! Very cool🖤
In a shackled world,
Our minds, would taste freedom, through,
Music, dance, and wine... 💃🕺😎🕺💃
Ha! Absolutely! Love a night out dancing!
Yes! It does sound like they were having a great party! Haha... 😎
Hangover dawn, feet bruised,
Cheek smeared red with grape or worse -
God, not you again.
Ooo 😬This is so good! I love the suspense you left us with🖤
Drove a Prius, satyr perfection
Stripped down in Greece
All I got was a Dionysian experience.
I mean it could have been worse, you didn’t get torn apart by Maenads😏
No . The wine drunk. Morning became Electra.
Guess I need to read up on Electra😅