Dionysian-light - Dionysian~Light

With Dionysos, the music changes. At the heart itself of life on this earth, alterity is a sudden intrusion of that which alienates us from daily existence, from the normal course of things, from ourselves: disguise, masquerade, drunkenness, play, theatre, and finally trance and ecstatic delirium. Dionysos teaches or compels us to to become other than what we ordinarily are, to experience in this life here below the sensation of escape toward a disconcerting strangeness.

Jean-Pierre Vernant, “Mortals and Immortals: Collected Essays” (via jaded-mandarin)

"May you live to be a hundred, and may I live to sing at your wake!” "To your coffin: May it be carved from the wood of a one-hundred year-old tree that you and I will plant tomorrow.” "May the sun shine warm upon your face, And may the rain fall soft upon your fields.” "To a full moon on a...

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

Albert Camus (via purplebuddhaproject)

An elk, which died with its antlers stuck in a tree (probably from spring jumping and fighting with another buck). With no natural predators left, it died and rotted undisturbed, with only birds and insects to clean its bones, leaving the legaments intact.

Picture stumbling into this in the dark…

MAENAD

[noun]

1. Greek mythology: the female followers of Dionysus (Bacchus in the Roman pantheon), the most significant members of the Thiasus, the god’s retinue. Their name literally translates as “raving ones”. Often the maenads were portrayed as inspired by Dionysus into a state of ecstatic frenzy, through a combination of dancing and drunken intoxication.

2. a frenzied woman.

Etymology: Greek μαινάδες, mainádes. Latin Maenas, from Greek mainas - madwoman.

[Glyn Smith]