241-260

Updated: October 17, 2025

Perhaps it IS more native, more primitive. Yet there may be SOME truth even in that idea. For a description of this orgy see Theocritus, Idyll xxvi; also for explanations of it, Lang's Myth, Ritual and Religion, vol. ii, pp, 241-260, on Dionysus.

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