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Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries: Section II., Bacchi...

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The Dionysiacal sacred rites instituted by Orpheus, * depended on the following arcane narration, part of which has been already related in the preceding section, and the rest may be found in a variety of authors. “Dionysus, or Bacchus [Zagreus], while he was yet a boy, was engaged by the Titans, through the stratagems of Juno, in a variety of sports, with which that period of life is so vehemently allured; and among the rest, he was particularly captivated with beholding his image in a mirror…

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