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their husbands’ resistance notwithstanding, women took to the hills, wearing fawn skins and crowns of ivy and shouting the ritual cry, “Euoi!” forming thyai holy bands and waving thyrsoi singular: thyrsus; fennel wands bound with grapevine and tipped with ivy, they danced by torchlight to the rhythm of the aulos double pipe and the tympanon handheld drum. while they were under the god’s inspiration, the bacchantes were believed to possess occult powers and the ability to charm snakes and suckle animals, as well as preternatural strength that enabled them to tear living victims to pieces before indulging in a ritual feast ōmophagia. the bacchantes hailed the god by his titles of bromios “Thunderer”, taurokeros “Bull-Horned”, or tauroprosopos “Bull-Faced”, in the belief that he incarnated the sacrificial beast.

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as dionysus apparently represented the sap, juice, or lifeblood element in nature, lavish festal orgia rites in his honour were widely instituted. these dionysia bacchanalia quickly won converts among women. men, however, met them with hostility. in thrace dionysus was opposed by lycurgus, who ended up blind and mad. in thebes dionysus was opposed by pentheus, his cousin, who was torn to pieces by the bacchantes when he attempted to spy on their activities. athenians were punished with impotence for dishonouring the god’s cult.