Agrionia
Template:Short description Agrionia was an ancient Greek religious festival in honor of Dionysus Agrionius. It was celebrated annually, especially at Orchomenus in Boeotia.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
According to Plutarch, agrionia was celebrated at night with only women accompanied by the priests of Dionysus, who often wore black garments.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Women pretended to search for Dionysos and then declared that he had fled to the Muses and hidden there.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". After that, they feasted and began to present and solve riddles.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
According to legend, the Minyades or Template:Proper name (Script error: No such module "Lang".), the daughters of king Minyas of Orchomenus, who had despised the Dionysian rites, were seized with a desire to eat human flesh of one of their children.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". They cast lots to decide which of their children they would eat and selected Hippasus, son of Leucippe.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Plutarch also explains that the festival included a human sacrifice. At this festival, it was originally the custom for the priest of the god to pursue a woman of the Minyan family with a drawn sword and kill her.[1] This practice was discontinued after the occurrence of bad omens.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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- ↑ Script error: No such module "Footnotes". cites Plutarch, Quaest. Rom. 102, Quaest. Graecae 38.
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