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Theater, imagination, the suspension of disbelief? Theater was a central Bacchic practice, and Bacchus/Dionysus is at once the height of loss of self control, a
by wddkcs 3y ago
Theater, imagination, the suspension of disbelief? Theater was a central Bacchic practice, and Bacchus/Dionysus is at once the height of loss of self control, and deeply cthonic. Death overturned by the relinquishing of self, through social enactment or personal initiation.
- _a_a_a_ 3y agoAny links? Am curious, ta
- wddkcs 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysian_Mysteries#:~:text=The%20Dionysian%20Mysteries%20were%20a,return%20to%20a%20natural%20state https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysian_Mysteries#:~:text=Th... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bacchae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bacchae https://uen.pressbooks.pub/mythologyunbound/chapter/dionysusbacchus/#:~:text=Dionysus%20was%20the%20son%20of,After%20Semele%20died%2C%20her https://uen.pressbooks.pub/mythologyunbound/chapter/dionysus... https://www.jstor.org/stable/311453#:~:text=opposite%20aspects%20of%20a%20single,They%20make%20their https://www.jstor.org/stable/311453#:~:text=opposite%20aspec... https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-24348-7_41#:~:text=In%20terms%20of%20human%20psychology%2C,sane%20life%20can%20be https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-0...
- swayvil 3y agoSuspension of disbelief. Or assuming a different set of beliefs. These beliefs being a set of assumptions or rules underlying a story or a game. To move from one world to another. To enter a movie, story, game... we are all pretty familiar with that.
- wddkcs 3y agoI don't think people are familiar with how that structure implies the part is greater than the whole. A lunar ideology hiding within the solar.