He had confounded the rich-vested and royally maintained band of Baal's priests, and in spite of their orgiastic leapings and self-mutilations had put to shame their Sun-god under his own burning sun.
There was nothing tumultuous ororgiastic in his proceedings.
The religious gladness of the Semites tended to assume an orgiastic character and become a sort of intoxication of the senses, in which anxiety and sorrow were drowned for the moment.
Celtic women performed orgiasticrites on islands, as has been seen.
They are called Bacchantes because they conciliated Bacchus with mysteries and sacrifices; in other words, they observed an orgiastic cult of a god equated with Bacchus.
These are reminiscences of orgiastic rites in which pain and pleasure melt into one.
Mr. Nutt, Voyage of Bran, derived the origin of the rebirth conception from orgiastic cults.
This is especially true of agricultural peoples, who propitiate Earth with sacrifice, worship her with orgiastic rites, or assist her processes by magic.
The fact that the rites were called Dionysiac is no reason for denying the fact that some orgiastic rites were practised.
The cult of fertility was usually associated with orgiastic and indiscriminate love-making, and it is not impossible that the cauldron, like the Hindu yoni, was a symbol of fertility.
This orgiastic rite may once have included the intercourse of the sexes--a powerful charm for fertility.
Thus while the state religion in its debauched condition was losing influence, the orgiastic element in worship was gaining power through these newly acquired Oriental cults.
To be sure, he leaned on Liszt and the French, but booming melancholy and orgiastic frenzy may be found in some of his symphonies.
A further step was taken by the Emperor Claudius when he incorporated the Phrygian worship of the sacred tree, and with it probably the orgiastic rites of Attis, in the established religion of Rome.
Moreover, a wine was brewed from these seeds, and this may partly account for the orgiastic nature of the rites of Cybele, which the ancients compared to those of Dionysus.
But in cultivated Greece, Dionysus, in spite of the surviving orgiastic ceremonies, is a poetic incarnation of blithe, changeable, spirited youth.
In the chapters dealing with the ethical character of music Aristotle dwells (as will be remembered) upon the exciting and orgiastic character of the Phrygian mode, and notices its especial fitness for the dithyramb.
Hence the music suited to the chorus is that of emotion venting itself in passive complaint:--a description which fits the other modes, but least of all the exciting and orgiastic Hypo-phrygian.
When the cult members give themselves up to ecstatic and orgiastic dances, therefore, they believe that they are magically influencing the sprouting and growth of the seeds.
Even more than was the case with the Greek mysteries, these Oriental cults carried over into the cults of the beyond, into which they developed, certain ecstatic and orgiastic elements of ancient vegetation cults.
Similar orgiastic phenomena recur wherever peoples are primarily concerned with agriculture and are anxious for the welfare of the grain.
These demons the orgiastic cult arouses to heightened activity, just as the labourers and dancers mutually excite one another to increased efforts.
This hypothesis, which presupposes the joint influence of orgiastic vegetation cults and ancient sacrificial usages, is, of course, not susceptible of positive demonstration.
It is only in the more extreme form of the ecstatic-orgiastic dance that both sexes participate.
Those who execute the orgiastic cult dances regard themselves as one with the spirits of vegetation, whom they wish to assist, by their actions, in increasing the productive forces of nature.
The hopes of a beyond, which were involved in the ecstatic practices of the orgiastic cults, opened up a new field to prophecy, and supplied divination with additional methods--the dream and the vision.
Relying upon this noble illusion, she can now move her limbs for the dithyrambic dance, and abandon herself unhesitatingly to an orgiastic feeling of freedom, in which she could not venture to indulge as music itself, without this illusion.
The orgiastic ritual of the priests of Kybele made at first little appeal to the more disciplined temperament of the Roman population.
From modern human nature the ancient orgiastic impulse of savage revelry has almost died away.
Truly these men and women were no orgiastic rioters!
It strove to rival the new faith by ritual splendour and orgiastic rites, and ‘the extreme sensuality of superstition.
The worship of Magna Mater was essentially an orgiastic cult, and theologically arid.
It was a populace at once sensual and superstitious, passionately devoted to all excitement, whether of games or orgiastic religious festival, with a jeering irreverent vein, which did not spare even the greatest Emperors.
Magna Graecia and Etruria were the first points assailed by the invasion of the orgiastic rites.
In art the Corybantes appear, usually not more than two or three in number, fully armed and executing their orgiastic dance in the presence of the Great Mother, her lions and Attis.
From their first appearance in literature, they are already often identified or confused with them, and are distinguished only by their Asiatic origin and by the more pronouncedly orgiastic nature of their rites.
In the Dionysus cult the orgiastic rites (in which women took a chief part) seem to have grown up from old agricultural ceremonies in which the spirit or god of vegetation was invoked to give his aid.
The cult of the Asian Great Mother (whom the Greeks identified with their Leto) had orgiastic elements.
The Greek mysteries, then, derived their orgiasticside partly from Thrace, partly from Asia Minor.
Moreover, a wine was brewed from these seeds,(825) and this may partly account for the orgiastic nature of the rites of Cybele, which the ancients compared to those of Dionysus.
And he had intermittently dozed during the progress of the demonstration and its orgiastic sequel.
It was the morning of the third day of Bursley Wakes; not the modern finicking and respectable, but an orgiastic carnival, gross in all its manifestations of joy.
In the multiplicity of deities the ordinary people were prepared to accept as many more as you chose to offer them, especially if the worship attaching to them contained mystic or orgiastic ceremonies.
To these we may add for processions the straight trumpet and the curved horn, and, for more orgiastic occasions or celebrations, the panpipes, cymbals, and tambourine or kettledrum.
The young fellows at the ball did carry on so," he said, chuckling with reminiscence of that orgiastic occasion.
All was confusion, all a kind of wild and orgiastic dream, culmination of heredity, of a spirit run amok.
Of a sudden the rage seemed to die in Hal, spent in that last, orgiastic convulsion of passion.
