The original Mysteries of Dionysus seem to have had no hierarchy at all ; only ritual functionaries ( such as the Phallophoroi ) are mentioned, the rest being participant Bacchoi, Thyiades or Maenads.

When Orpheus incurred the wrath of the god Dionysus he was dismembered by the Maenads and of his body parts his head and his lyre found their way to Lesbos where they have " remained " ever since.

( The ancient Bacchante were also known as Maenads, and there had also been a HMS Maenad.

Dionysus and two Maenads, as depicted by the Amasis Painter circa 550-530BCE.

Maenads are the primary symbol of the city of Tetovo depicted prominently of the city's coat of arms.

Dionysus, Pentheus's cousin, himself lured Pentheus to the woods, Pentheus wanting to see what he thought were the sexual activities of the women, where the Maenads tore him apart and his corpse was mutilated by his own mother, Agave.

Mythographers claim that the Maenads ( or wild women ) resisted the Bacchic urge and were driven mad, while the Thyiades ( or ravers ) accepted the Dionysian ecstasy and kept their sanity.

* Parnassus: A mountain associated with the cult of Dionysus ( as practised by the Maenads ) overlooking Delphi, one of the most sacred sites in ancient Greece.

In Euripides's play, " The Bacchae ", Theban Maenads murdered King Pentheus after he banned the worship of Dionysus because he denied Dionysus's divinity.

She joined the Maenads disregarding her pregnancy, and got into labor when she was dragging a sacrificial bull by the horns.

It is not known whether the Oracle participated with the Dionysian rites of the Maenads or Thyades in the Korykion cave on Mount Parnassos, although Plutarch informs us that his friend Clea was both a Priestess to Apollo and to the secret rites of Dionysus.

The wild ecstasy of their cult can be compared to the female Maenads who followed Dionysus.

Maenads, possessed by the spirit of Dionysus, traveled with him from Thrace to mainland Greece in his quest for the recognition of his divinity.

Mark W. Edwards in his paper " Representation of Maenads on Archaic Red-Figure Vases " traces the evolution of maenad's depictions on Red-Figure vases.

Maenads, along with Bacchus and Silenus, appear in C. S.

Whilst looking for the automaton table, Buford, Leo, Jason, and Piper run into the Maenads, who were searching for Dionysus.

* Edwards, Mark W. " Representation of Maenads on Archaic Red-Figure Vases.

Maenads were reputed to tear their own children limb from limb in their madness.

The character Connie yearns for the passion felt by Iacchos and the Maenads.

The thyrsus, associated with Dionysus ( or Bacchus ) and his followers, the Satyrs and Maenads, is a symbol of prosperity, fertility, hedonism, and pleasure / enjoyment in general.

Resisting the arrival of the god, Lycurgus had pursued all of Dionysus ' followers, the Maenads, with an ox-goad and imprisoned them ; Dionysus was forced to flee to the undersea grotto of Thetis the sea nymph.

Other inhabitants of the Narnian world based on known mythological or folkloric creatures include Boggles, Centaurs, Cruels, Dragons, Dryads, Earthmen ( the Narnian version of gnomes ), Efreets, Ettins, Fauns, Giants, Ghouls, Griffins, Hags, Hamadryads, Horrors, Incubi, Maenads, Merpeople, Minotaurs, Monopods, Naiads, Ogres, Orknies ( perhaps from Old English orcneas " walking dead "), Winged Horses, People of the Toadstools, Phoenix, Satyrs, Sea Peoples ( a version of the merpeople ), Sea serpents, Sylvans, Spectres, Sprites, Star People, Trolls, Unicorns, Werewolves, Wooses, and Wraiths.

: A nature nation, consisting of halfmen from Greek mythology like Pans and Maenads.

In the temple to Apollo at Delphi, there was also a shrine to Dionysus, and his Maenads are shown on drinking cups playing the aulos, but Dionysus is sometimes shown holding a kithara or lyre.

If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

`` We've been looking for work, but all the ranchers have turned us down ''.

She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.

A detailed scouring of the entire area revealed nothing beyond a ledge of rocks that might have been the rifleman's hiding place.

Yet had he not visited the girl at Saw Buck he would never have been involved in this latest tangle.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

Their product had been endorsed by Good Housekeeping, the A.M.A., and the Veterinary Journal, among other repositories of higher wisdom, and before much longer if you didn't have a cake of their soap in the john, even your best friends would think you didn't bathe.

`` The commercials have just been for money, there hasn't been any real incentive for me to do them, but in Underwater Western Eye I'd have a chance to act.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.

( Would she have been able to had she known that the blanket belonged to a young ballet dancer Nicolas had found his first night in one of Walter's marked bars??

It had been a mistake, but anything would have been a mistake, as it turned out.

`` They wouldn't have sold me in the first place if there'd been food enough to go around ''.

The body may have been two or three weeks' dead.

She might have been someone he had once loved.

Benson said, and Ramey wondered how close their thoughts might have been.

And he would have enjoyed it just as much if he had been a Nazi.

The deeds of countless western bandits and outlaws have been glorified almost to the point of hero-worship, but because Billy Tilghman remained strictly on the side of the law throughout his action-packed career, his achievements and the appalling risks he took while taming the West have remained almost unsung.

Something was beginning to stir and come alive in her, too ( it may have been there for a good while, since she was twenty now ; ;

Had Dandy been older or wiser, instinct might have warned him that he would be well advised to flee from the Lalauries' tender care if he valued his life.