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In our exploration of the #GreekMyths behind the #constellations, we've talked a fair amount about the Greco-Roman god of the #theater (wine, fertility, arts-- lots of multihyphenates...). So far, Dionysus has shown up in the myths of Corona Australis, Corona Borealis, and Lyra.

But probably my favorite thing about him are his followers -- the Maenads.

Their claim to fame?

Dancing. Singing. Ripping people apart.

#MythologyMonday #GreekMyth #mythology #maenad #myths #StarLore

📷 :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maenad#/media/File:Lens,_Cornelis_-_Tanz_der_M%C3%A4naden.jpg

Painting titled "Dance of the Maenads" by Andries Cornelis Lens. This painting shows a group of half nude women in ancient Greco-Roman dress holding hands and dancing in a circle around a figure in the center holding greenery aloft.

Got a touch of Maenad energy rn -- if you know, you know.

if you don't, check out our #Maenad episode: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/asterism-the-maenads-in-mythology/

📷 :https://heritage.southwark.gov.uk/objects/1112/maenads

#podcast #GreekMythology #GreekMyth #Mythology #Myths #Anger #Wild #Dionysus #Untamed

Painting by John Collier titled "Maenads." showing half a dozen to a dozen women running an dancingly wildly through the woods, partially clothed in togas and animals skins.

As we close in on the end of Season 2 (QUESTS AND CURSESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS) & since we don't have a #podcast episode this week, let's show some love for these 3 episodes with some of the *lowest* listen stats this season (by giving them a download or a share):

🦢 SWAN CREATURE CORNER: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/asterism-swan-creature-corner/

🍷 MAENADS IN MYTHOLOGY: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/asterism-the-maenads-in-mythology/

🔭 COSMIC BACKGROUND OF PERSEUS: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/perseus-cosmic-background/

#Astronomy #Mythology #Creatures #Maenad #Dionysus #Swans #Nature #Space #Science #AstroDon

More #maenads in art -- though this sculpture by #Rodin uses the #AncientRoman name Bacchante instead!

Learn more about the frenzied followers of Bacchus (aka Dionysus) here: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/asterism-the-maenads-in-mythology/

📷 : https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/206340

#mythology #GreekMythology #RomanMythology #GreekGods #Dionsysis #Bacchus #Maenad #Art #Museum #MastoArt #sculpture

Bust titled "Bacchante" by Auguste Rodin. The bust s a young woman's face with a crown of grapes and grape leaves.

Go MAENAD!

Learn more about the "Frenzied Ones" in #GreekMythology here: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/asterism-the-maenads-in-mythology/

#Maenads #Orpheus #Maenad #GreekMyth #mythology #myths #mythology #GreekGods #art #Museum #Dionysus

🎨 :https://heritage.southwark.gov.uk/objects/1112/maenads

Oil on canvas painting titled "Maenads" by John Collier. The outdoor landscape has many women dancing freely across the image.

Tune into this week's #podcast to hear ret-constellations of the #Maenads #myths along with a.... DIS-ASTERISM!!

https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/asterism-the-maenads-in-mythology/

#GreekMyth #GreekGods #GreekMythology #Myth #Maenad #Dionysus #storytelling

I turned a few pieces inspired by writing prompts into a poem titled Triptych of the Maenad! I hope you enjoy 💕

https://ziraphema.wordpress.com/2023/09/14/triptych-of-the-maenad/

#Poetry #GreekMythology #Maenad #Dryad #Fantasy #SapphicPoetry #QueerPoetry #WritingCommunity #EmergingAuthor #Poem #ZiraPhema #Romance

It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

A mature, bearded #Dionysos watches a #maenad dancing in phallus shorts, a costume in ancient Greek #theatre to play the role of a #satyr, hence the horse tail.

#mythology #GreekRomanArt @antiquidons @histodons @mythology #Dionysus #bacchant #SatyrDay

Red-figure vase painting of Dionysos and a maenad. Dionysos is seated on the right, holding his thyrsos, a staff of giant fennel with a pine cone on top. He is depicted as a mature, bearded man, lounging on his chair, only a himation wrapped around his hips. His hair is short and crowned with vine and/or ivy.
The maenad has her hair tied into a bun. She is standing up, her raised arms suggesting that she is dancing. She is naked except for a pair of satyr shorts: furry shorts with an erect phallus and a horse tail.

A quotation from Euripides:

«««««
Only by fleeing did we avoid
being torn to pieces by the Bacchae,
but they attacked our grazing calves and not with swords in their hands.
You could have seen one of them, apart from the others, mauling with both hands
a young heifer with swelling udders, bellowing all the while;
and other women were ripping apart mature cows, s…
»»»»»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/euripides/60129/

#quote #quotes #quotation #bacchante #frenzy #madness #maenad

#NoSpoilers #VoxMachina is back tonight & @arjil is very excited. I’m still leaving #GreekMythology mode even tho it’s been 2 days since I finished recording #Maenad vocals for #goth #music colleagues in Argentina. Hope I can switch gears the rest of the way before we watch. Anybody else have certain paradigms or story cycles hang around after the derivative work is done, like soft focus/a gel filter on your thoughts? Or is it just that I was the voice of a Maenad for several consecutive days?

#maenad

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