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Dionysos - The Dionysian frenzy
Identifier
003025
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Very little is known of the so called Dionysian frenzy other than that it was abandoned frenetic and performed over some time. It seems to have been almost equivalent to today’s rave dancing in that it was accompanied by drums and other instruments, involved the use of flashing lights [candles, torches and fires] and required a pretty abandoned sort of style.
There is every reason to believe that the Dionysian frenzy and the tarantella are the same dance. The dance used the drum, fiddle, pipes, castanets, bagpipes and flute as accompaniment occasionally the tambourine. The dancing was ‘frenzied’. The term "tarantella" originally referred to a dance ritual that existed in Greece around the year 2000 BC and was connected to the gods Dionysus and Apollo.
A description of the experience
The source of the experience
Dionysos [and the Dionysian Mysteries]Concepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
Frenetic exerciseSuppressions
Listening to beating soundsSuppression of learning