The Death and Rebirth of Dionysus: Every Extant Ancient Version
Every extant ancient version of the Dionysus death and rebirth myth, translated and compared from Onomacritus to Nonnus.
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Heracles, the Great Mother, and Eve Theory: Amazon Girdles, Eleusis, and Initiation
Reading Heracles’ labors—especially Hippolyta’s girdle and the Eleusinian initiation—as ritual memories where male consciousness apprentices to the Great Mother’s sovereignty.
The Great Mother and Sacred Prostitution: a phenomenology of hieros gamos and cultic eros
How older scholars stitched the Great Mother to temple sexuality—through hieros gamos, consecrated personnel, and fertility rites—using Greek, Near Eastern, and Roman evidence.