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    Sparagmos (Ancient Greek: σπαραγμός, from σπαράσσω sparasso, "tear, rend, pull to pieces") is an act of rending, tearing apart, or mangling, usually in...
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  • the son of Zeus and Semele. This dismemberment of Dionysus Zagreus (the sparagmos), together with an assumed Orphic anthropogony, in which human beings...
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    role in what is often considered to be the central myth of Orphism, the sparagmos, that is the dismemberment of Dionysus, who in this context is often given...
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    of Zeus and Persephone, who was torn apart by the Titans in an act of sparagmos. After tearing Zagreus apart, the Titans devoured him, except for his...
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  • Rachel Morgan / The Hollows series is a series of urban fantasy novels in an alternate history setting by Kim Harrison that take place primarily in the...
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    often a fertility deity. The deity typically undergoes dismemberment (see sparagmos), scattering, and reintegration, as narrated in a myth or reenacted by...
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    bull (the symbol of Dionysus) apart with their bare hands, an act called sparagmos, and eating its flesh raw, an act called omophagia. This latter rite was...
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  • Beltane Maypole Mother goddess Phallic processions Sacred prostitution Sparagmos Ananti, Emmanuel (January 1986). AnthonyBonanno (ed.). Archaeology and...
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  • Cheeseburger..." (Tweet) – via Twitter. Atoms, Maxwell (September 21, 2021). "Sparagmos Industries". Tumblr. Retrieved March 24, 2022. So yeah. Mandy's probably...
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    Pentheus down and tore him limb from limb (as part of a ritual known as the sparagmos). When his true identity was later discovered, officials exiled the women...
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    concept of the “political unconscious” Patricia Vicari, in her essay Sparagmos: Orpheus Among the Christians, says that in Sir Orfeo Orpheus the hero...
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    Epode Kommós Mêchanê Monody Ode Onomastì komodèin Parabasis Phlyax play Sparagmos Stásimon Stichomythia Strophê Thalia (Muse) Theoric fund Roman theatre...
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  • Jessie Weston Life-death-rebirth deity Myth and ritual Sir Michael Tippett Sparagmos The White Goddess R Fraser ed., The Golden Bough (Oxford 2009) p. 651...
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    subject of debate among scholars. The dismemberment of Dionysus (the sparagmos) has often been considered the most important myth of Orphism. Many modern...
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  • colony of huge seven-tailed scorpions called Stingerheads. Bondrewd uses Sparagmos, a relic that generates a mysterious blade of light, to blast his way...
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    4 million years ago. The Dupnisa Cave was used for Dionysian Rituals (Sparagmos) in ancient times. Even the name of Dionysus is associated with Mount...
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  • promoting the growth of new crops with the blood of the young victim of sparagmos, the Greek Dionysiac ritual of dismemberment." The Medea soundtrack includes:...
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    tragedies, and the clear "purpose" moment of the tragic rhythm. It had its Sparagmos, in which the royal victim was literally or symbolically torn asunder...
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  • (1965) .... Mikes Papadimas Blood on the land (1966) .... father Hormovas Sparagmos (1965) O Epanastatis (1965) Katigoro tous anthropous (1966) .... Elefterios...
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  • Danger Drive, Sparagmos, Acid Drinkers, Master, Demolition Hammer, Grave, Paradise Lost, Sepultura, Massacre Lineup: Betrayer, Sparagmos, Kat, Valdi Moder...
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  • well. Gilbert Murray saw Hippolytus, Glaucus and their ilk as undergoing sparagmos as vegetation deities. In the Georgics, Vergil casts the neglect of Venus...
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  • sparagmos is mediated by the sign and thus directed towards the central object rather than the other members of the group. By including the sparagmos...
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  • hagios prinkēps] (1972). Sparagmos (1967). Translated by the author into Greek as Σπαραγμός: τα πάθη του αστερίου [Sparagmos: ta pathē tou asteriou] (1970)...
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  • star graduates". 15 March 2007. Atoms, Maxwell (21 September 2021). "Sparagmos Industries". Tumblr. Retrieved 9 February 2023. So yeah. Mandy's probably...
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  • pp. 256–258. ISBN 978-1538103739. Atoms, Maxwell (21 September 2021). "Sparagmos Industries". Tumblr. Retrieved 24 March 2022. So yeah. Mandy's probably...
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  • Outline of the History of Ebla (Part I)." Eblaitica 3 (1992): 3-82. "Sparagmos, Omophagia, and Ecstatic Prophecy at Mari." Ugarit Forschungen 24 (1992):...
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    by the Titans is also hinted at as the text resorts to the concept of sparagmos (Ancient Greek: σπαραγμός,: Section XII, line 7  from σπαράσσω sparasso...
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