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		The final stream of Dionysian influence is the abandonment of all interpretive concepts through their "unknowing." The last stage of anagogic ascent moves beyond the interpretive positive/negative dialectic by a negation of all that has been negated.
		It is undisputed that Suger, abbot of St. Denis (1122-1151) drew on Dionysian light mysticism for the justification of the stained glass windows and symbolism throughout the abbey church (Panofsky 19- 26).
		Dionysian themes were removed from their mystical context of anagogic ascent and the ontology which underlie this was fused together with other sources.
	www.the-orb.net /encyclop/culture/philos/coulter.html (4796 words)

	Dionysus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His own rites the Dionysian Mysteries were the most secretive of all (See also Maenads) Many scholars believe that Dionysus is a syncretism of a local Greek nature deity and a more powerful god from Thrace or Phrygia such as Sabazios.
		The bull, the serpent, the ivy and wine are the signs of the characteristic Dionysian atmosphere, infused with the unquenchable life of the god.
		In contrast, the Russian poet and philosopher Vyacheslav Ivanov elaborated the theory of Dionysianism, which traces the roots of literary art in general and the art of tragedy in particular to ancient Dionysian mysteries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dionysus (2684 words)

	Thiasos Lusios - Other Dionysian Festivals
		The author intends to continue his research into the more obscure Dionysian festivals celebrated in the ancient world, and is open to comments from anyone who has additional information to add regarding the festivals described herein.
		While the Trieteric festivals were by their very definition Dionysian festivals of the "two-year period" some localities, such as Delphi and Phrygia, may have observed their Trieteric festivals on an annual basis.
		This festival may not originally be a Dionysian festival, considered by some to have evolved from a festival celebrating some ancient naval victory.
	www.winterscapes.com /thiasoslusios/other_festivals.htm (3774 words)

	Nietzsche, Dionysus and Apollo
		Apollonian and Dionysian are terms used by Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy to designate the two central principles in Greek culture.
		The Dionysian, which corresponds roughly to Schopenhauer's conception of Will, is directly opposed to the Apollonian.
		He used the names Apollonian and Dionysian for the two forces because Apollo, as the sun-god, represents light, clarity, and form, whereas Dionysus, as the wine-god, represents drunkenness and ecstasy.
	www.historyguide.org /europe/dio_apollo.html (442 words)

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	Dionysia Tradition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In the Dionysian tradition, emotions, fantasies, and sexual longings are summoned forth and embraced as inherent parts of the self.
		In the practice of the Dionysian mysteries, the essential unit is not the isolated individual but the group-in-action, which manifests its collective energy through the throbbing patterns of song, dance, and orgiastic sex among its individual participants.
		In the Dionysian tradition, mind-altering substances (a category into which wine was originally placed) are openly used in accepted, traditional, structured rituals aimed at self-growth.
	www.hyperreal.org /raves/spirit/culture/Dionysian_Tradition.html (574 words)

	Welcome to the Dionysian Underground!
		the dionysian current was always on the side of the oppressed, like voodoo in haiti, used during the slaves revolution 200 years ago.
		Amongst those greatly influenced by Nietzsche's notion of the Dionysian were many talented writers and avant garde artists (particularly the lineage of Decadents-Symbolists-Surrealists), but especially Sigmund Freud (for all his other faults) and the psycho-analysts who followed him.
		The 'Dionysian' also has several parallels with Marcuse's concept (from Eros and Civilization) of the wild, revolutionary 'Promethean' current in western culture (though Marcuse's pagan rebel is more rational).
	www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/ukraine/231/dionintro.html (1070 words)

	DIONYSIAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		DIONYSIAN is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		DIONYSIAN: In religious studies, describes "lunar- or nature-oriented" religions that emphasize the ecstatic and emotional aspects, and the liberating of the psyche from the limitations of mundane consciousness, to enable union with the "group mind", or collective consciousness of the group (named for Dionysus, the Greek God of wine and Ecstasy).
		The philosophers, dramatists, and historians who held the Dionysian mythos to be purely allegorical and symbolic take in the great names of antiquity, including Plato, Pythagoras, all the Neoplatonists, the greatest historians, and a few of the early Christian Fathers, notably Clement of Alexandria; Eusebius, Tertullian, Justin, and Augustine, also write of it.
	www.experiencefestival.com /dionysian (2594 words)

	Mimesis and the Aesthetic Experience
		In the transitional period between totemic mythologies and the Socratic world view, the mimetic experiences of the bard and chorus were instrumental to both the actualization of ethical consciousness and its reunion with the 'superhuman cosmology' of classical mythology.
		The impact of the confrontation, the immediacy and strength of the illusion, is Dionysian.
		The Dionysian aspect of the aesthetic experience allows psychic energy that is normally barred from escape to flow out and include the object of perception.
	www.westland.net /venice/art/cronk/mimesis.htm (1138 words)

	SparkNotes: The Birth of Tragedy: Chapters 2 & 3
		The Dionysian Greek was protected from the wild destructive ecstasies of the Dionysian barbarian by the influence of Apollo.
		Dionysian music, on the other hand, is defined by its power to evoke emotional states.
		The Dionysian world is all around him, but it is shrouded in glowing beauty that the Greeks in their miserable existence felt necessary to drape around themselves.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/birthoftragedy/section2.rhtml (1106 words)

	DIONYSIAN ICONOGRAPHY IN GREEK VASE ART
		He has exerted a fascination upon later generations, and theories and interpretations of the Dionysian religious phenomenon are as diverse and paradoxical and shape-shifting as the god himself.
		He rejects attempts to see Dionysian images as ‘sacred’ and, finding ‘nothing inherently admirable’ about Dionysos, states that depictions of the Dionysian ‘carry...no demands for religious awe.’ (FCA, p 120) It is the very adamancy of this stance that might lead one to question some of his interpretations.
		Carpenter traces several of the new iconographic elements in Dionysian imagery to Attic vase painters of the Athenian Ceramicus in the mid-to-late sixth century.
	home.earthlink.net /~delia5/pagan/dio/vase_art.htm (3017 words)

	Freemasonry
		If such was the meaning and import of the Eleusinian and Dionysian rites, symbols, and ceremonies, it must be allowed that a society or sect, which was employed in the contemplation of such sublime truths, cannot be looked upon as trifling or profligate.
		The Latin translator of Strabo renders the Dionysian Artificers scenicos artificers; because Bacchus or Dionysus was supposed to be the inventor of theaters and scena, derived from the Heb.
		But it is natural to suppose that the Dionysian Artificers would not have attempted to introduce those rites among the religious Jews, as a mere matter of idolatry, for the worship of the sun.
	myweb.cableone.net /subru/Freemasonry.html (9220 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 51, No. 2 - July 1994 - BOOK REVIEW - Pseudo-Dionysius: A Commentary on the Texts and an ...
		Thomas Aquinas, who cited the Dionysian writings seventeen hundred times, was especially drawn to the Areopagite as being of equal authority with Augustine.
		This work is organized according to the Dionysian framework of procession and return, that is, all things proceed from and return to the same source and goal.
		It was primarily through Hugh of St. Victor that Dionysian themes flowed into the West to shape the thoughts of Bonaventure, "Cloud of Unknowing," Albert the Great, and Eckhart.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jul1994/v51-2-bookreview13.htm (670 words)

	Nietzsche's idea of "the overman" (Ubermensch) is one of the most significant concept in his thinking
		On the other hand, the Dionysian views things as a living whole where one is a part of a larger reality.
		In his later work, the importance of the Dionysian principle in living a life with values and meanings is expressed clearly.
		To him, the Dionysian is not completely dark and evil as opposite to the Apollonion which is associated with light and reason.
	www.stanford.edu /~pj97/Nietzsche.htm (2344 words)

	The Aesthetic Life
		The aesthetic truth is a fluid truth, an ever-changing truth, the Dionysian element in one’s life that derives from the stable Apollonian truths.
		The survivor rejects both the Dionysian and Apollonian, and becomes as much of a corpse as the Buddhist, except he stays in the world and does not run away into a monastery.
		Dionysian art becomes intelligible, immediately apprehended in the wonderful significance of musical dissonance, and also with tragical myth - both transfigure a region in whose joyous harmony all dissonance, like the terrible picture of the world, dies charmingly away.
	members.rediff.com /orpheus/26mol.html (6042 words)

	dionysian
		Again, the burning of the library at Alexandria haunts our endeavors; very little of what was written of them remains, and they, like modern Freemasons, were not prone toward writing their secrets down where the profane might find them.
		Strabo mentions them thus: "Lebedos was the seat and assembly of the Dionysian Artificers, who inhabit Ionia to the Hellespont; there, they held their solemn meetings and festivities in honor of Bacchus." Their religion was said by Plutarch to be of Egyptian origin: "...
		Osiris is the same as Dionysos, and who should know better than you, Clea, since you are at once the leader of the Thyades at Delphi and have been consecrated in the Isirian rites...?" <*36> Manly Hall wrote that they "...
	members.aol.com /setzer693/page13.htm (1262 words)

	Pagan Regeneration: Chapter III: Dionysian Excesses
		Dionysian mythology named her Semele, the daughter of Cadmus, founder of Thebes, and this name betrays her real significance as a personification of the earth (cf.
		Plutarch connected the Dionysian frenzy with the Bacchic custom of chewing ivy leaves during this ceremonial, and affirmed that thus "the violent spirits which caused their enthusiasm entered into them.", Dionysus was god of the ivy quite as much as god of the vine.
		The historian said of the king that "the god took possession" of him so that "he was maddened by the god and played the part of Bacchus." Thus, in the frenzy of the ritualistic revel, as in the orgy of eating raw flesh and drinking wine, the Bacchanals experienced communion with their god.
	www.sacred-texts.com /cla/pr/pr05.htm (5515 words)

	O’odham Creation and Related Events. Excerpt. University of Arizona Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		I think she liked some Dionysian sparks that arose from them, but she herself must have sensed that the whole thing was not of that nature.
		To revert to a word in the last line of the preceding passage, she probably believed this was a "slant" in all native North American cultures except for the Pueblos, who, she stated, were an "island" of measure and sobriety in a sea of vision seekers (Benedict 1934:119).
		The hallmark of Dionysianism was the seeking of visions, that is, of temporarily raised consciousness.
	www.uapress.arizona.edu /samples/sam1397.htm (4132 words)

	The Birth of Tragedy: an analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Nietzsche claimed that the Dionysian element in the tragedy of the Greeks was destroyed by an opposition between the Dionysian and the Socratic.
		The use of nous opposed the occurrence of the Dionysian intoxication; this intoxication being that which helps one reach Apollo’s images of truth through unconsciousness.
		Dionysian art is created when the artist is almost in an intoxicated state.
	www.eecs.berkeley.edu /~tmatthew/personal/birthoftragedy.htm (776 words)

	Bart Bryant- Apollo and Dionysus: From Warfare to Assimilation in The Birth of Tragedy and Beyond Good and Evil
		Perhaps more warranted is the view that he shrinks back from the Dionysian to the degree that his horror at facing the roots of his own existence is mitigated by a faith in the presence of an underlying unity that is meaningful and transcendent.
		The Dionysian is thus a necessary mediating force that, on one hand, allows man to come into enchanted contact with his painful existential reality, and that allows him on the other hand to endure his awareness of that reality after the enchantment has gone.
		Such were the Dionysian roots that led to tragedy as a new form of expression in art and human existence, simultaneously.
	www.janushead.org /JHFall98/bryant.cfm (9305 words)

	Phish Management Company Dionysian Productions To Close
		"Dionysian Productions will be a non-entity as of the end of the year," Paluska, Phish's manager for 16 years, tells Billboard.
		Dionysian's staff, including Phish Dry Goods, the band's merchandising company, numbered more than 25 when the band was on the road.
		Jason Colton, a key executive at Dionysian, will continue to work with Phish bassist Mike Gordon as manager; Gordon is recording a second album with Leo Kottke in December and the pair will tour together again.
	www.glidemagazine.com /news1539.html (630 words)

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		The term "Dionysian" can be used by itself, and in some of its other forms such as "Dionysiac" it not infrequently is. Most commonly though, "Dionysian" or Dionysiac" is used as a comparative to, or in opposition to, the term "Apollonian".
		The Dionysian compares roughly with what poor old mixed-up Schopenhauer called "The Will".....by which I believe he clearly meant to say; not the individual human will, which is distinctly and unarguably Apollonian, but rather the atavistic, or sub-conscious, animal-instinctive drive to submersion in a greater, safer, more secure whole.
		All forms of wild enthusiasm and ecstacy are Dionysian and that definitely includes the performance of the Shamanic function, for in such emotional states, a person totally gives up their individuality, and at least temporarily submerges themselves and their individuality in some other whole.
	www.parascience.org /BKTWO-07.htm (3000 words)

	Dionysian -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche used the terms Dionysian and Apollonian to analyze and explain the character of Greek tragedy in his book The Birth of Tragedy.
		These are opposed to the Dionysian characteristics of excess, irrationality, lack of...
		Present-day ideas of music as a symbolism owe much to two German philosophers, Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) and Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), who brought to the theory of music a new concept, articulated by each in different ways and in divergent terms but faithful to the same principle—dynamism.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9124825?tocId=9124825 (559 words)

	Discovering the Dionysian Experience in Ballroom Dancing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In our lives, there's no available release like Dionysian orgies; there's no wonderful enchantment by a deity that can rid frustration and agitation; there's no religion that does the job the way Dionysus supported his worshipers.
		Instead, there are constructive releases, such as modern ballroom dancing, that give energy and passion and relief similar to Dionysian rituals; through exploring how the Dionysian experience applies to ballroom dancing, we can see how the emotion and self- deliverance in Dionysian rituals possibly emerged.
		Ballroom dancers move in pairs and maneuver around one another on the dance floor, but all the pairs are held captive by the same beat, make movement to the same rhythm, and are vitalized by the same energy.
	www.ocf.berkeley.edu /~llau/piecesofwork/dionysus.html (843 words)

	GENDER AND THE PHALLUS IN DIONYSIAN RELIGION
		In the organic, ecstatic, and often bloody effusion that characterized the Dionysian, the Greeks found a clear indication of the feminine, as they understood it within their own cultural context.
		The phallic in a Dionysian context, far from guarding a boundary, marks the dramatic penetration of barriers, a forceful intrusion of the wild, chaotic and mysterious god into the rational, restrained confines of the Greek psyche.
		The Dionysian phallus is therefore a threat to, rather than a reinforcement of, the established social order.
	home.earthlink.net /~delia5/pagan/dio/tp99s-dnys-donnr.htm (4510 words)

	Opinion: The Dionysian Dialectic - The Accent of Choice - Amending the School Prayer Amendment - Chinese Greeting Cards ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Within the context of myth it was a tension that united temporal with spiritual, secular with transcendent, and Dionysian with Apollonian.
		As such, we must recognize the Dionysian in every private and social equation if we are truly to understand and serve the order we call "justice"-and that is, in fact, the only ground and embodiment of our rights.
		If, as Aristotle says, matter is the principle of individuation, then the Dionysian consciousness demands that no disembodied abstraction diminish me: let no system ignore my age, my womanhood, my manhood, my intellect, my artistic gifts, my vocation.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9505/opinion/opinion.html (6107 words)

	Amazon.com: Dionysian Imagery in Fifth-Century Athens (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Red-figure vases provide the richest source of Dionysian iconography, but the significant volume of evidence supplied by architectural sculpture, coins, and the theatre also demands attention.
		It is also argued that the introduction of accessories associated with ecstatic worship in Dionysian scenes can be explained with reference to narratives rather than attributed to cult practices.
		While seeking to unravel the important social and cultural implications of this religious imagery, Carpenter takes care to point out the problems inherent in the evidence available for scrutiny.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0198150385?v=glance (428 words)

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