10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OMOPHAGIA»
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omophagia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
omophagia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Blood and Belief: The Circulation of a Symbol Between Jews ...
limb from limb and eaten raw (omophagia), thus consuming the flesh with its
blood: Joyful on the mountain When from the rushing, dancing throng Sinks he to
the ground With his holy fawn skin round him, Pursuing blood, slaughter of goats,
...
2
Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre
In Titus, omophagia repays outwardly directed crimes of mutilation and murder
with an inwardly directed pollution. The punctilious design of Titus's revenge
reflects the power of inversion as redress.13 Jan Kott's investigation of ancient
rites ...
... either public: the Thyiades, or private: for example the Iobacchia.27* Ritual
elements of the opyia (mysteries) like sparagmos and omophagia such as occur
in the parodos of the Bacchae, were part of the reality of the myth, not of the cult.
275 ...
4
Paul and the Lord's Supper: A Socio-historical Investigation
The orgiastic worship of Dionysus viewed in the Bacchae has a basis in genuine
cultic practices.61 In the worship of Dionysus, the so-called omophagia was a rite
in which wild animals were torn to pieces alive and eaten raw — doubtlessly a ...
Panayotis Coutsoumpos, 2005
5
Baptism and Resurrection: Studies in Pauline Theology ...
Yet at the same time the possibility of assimilation to the omophagia exists, for
Plut., Esu earn. 7.996C refers to his dismemberment by the Titans (Sia^eXia/ioc)
and their tasting of his blood. However, even if the parallel were closer, the eating
...
A. J. M. Wedderburn, 1987
6
Interpretation and Dionysos: Method in the Study of a God
He argued, on the other hand, that there were suflicient testimonies identifying
Dionysos with the bull to warrant this interpretation for the devouring of the bull in
the omophagia.27 Another significant indication of the nature of the cult was that
...
7
Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion
Of the three main Orphic mysteries examined, the Omophagia, the Liknophoria,
and the Sacred Marriage, two, the Liknophoria and the Sacred Marriage, are
known with absolute certainty to have been practised at Eleusis. The first and ...
8
Idol Meat in Corinth: The Pauline Argument in 1 Corinthians ...
The basic theory behind the sacramentalist interpretation of the omophagia is
that in the eating the worshippers ingest their deity. W. K. C. Guthrie states well
this thesis on the omophagia: This primitive communion (which rests "on the ...
9
The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook : Sacred Texts of the ...
The wild maenads of Dionysos, for example, were said to have devoured the raw
flesh of an animal in their omophagia, or feast of flesh. While it is not clear that
Greco-Roman women actually took part in the omophagia, the descriptions of the
...
10
After Dionysus: A Theory of the Tragic
The sparagmos and the omophagia provided the characteristic means through
which the worshipers claimed a part of the god's body and were able then to
ingest his spirit. As Dodds describes this, "We may regard the omophagia, then,
as a ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OMOPHAGIA»
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omophagia is used in the context of the following news items.
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Sparagmos, Aglaia called it. The Maenad's frenzy, bull sacrifice. A rending apart, followed by omophagia, eating the flesh raw. Or, as Gorgo'd ... «Dread Central, Oct 13»
'American Horror Story': Croatoa, Connie Britton screams and a …
Omophagia means eating of raw meat, an ironic definition given Vivien's appetite for pig pancreas during her pregnancy. The raw meat in this ... «Washington Post, Dec 11»
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Any creature that dared to resist such perversion of Dionysus was subjected to sparagmos ("torn apart') and omophagia ("consumed raw"). «NewsWithViews.com, Aug 09»
