bacchants
Frenzied ritual celebrants
Bacchants are frenzied followers of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine.
In ancient ritual, they were devotees—often women—who celebrated with wild dancing, intoxication, and ecstatic abandon.
The term now applies figuratively to revelers or anyone caught up in drunken, orgiastic festivity: The party devolved into a scene of bacchants stumbling through the garden.
Greek deity of wine
Trailing climbing plant
- grapesClustered vine fruit
- intoxicationSubstance-induced mental impairment
- libationCeremonial drink offering
- drinkingLiquid consumption act
goblet · vintage · vineyard · inebriation · drunkenness · symposium · krater · amphora
Intense, consuming obsession
- deliriumAcute mental disorientation
- madnessMental derangement or folly
- ecstasyOverwhelming intense delight
- raptureOverwhelming ecstatic feeling
possession · trance · intoxication · euphoria · fervor · hysteria · berserk · wildness
Boisterous drinking spree
- feastElaborate ceremonial meal
- orgyUnrestrained collective indulgence
- celebrationFestive event marking occasion
- dancingRhythmic bodily motion
merriment · festival · carnival · reveling · procession · merrymaking · nocturnal · torchlit
Formal admission ceremony
- ritesFormal ceremonial acts
- processionFormal moving line
- chantingRhythmic repetitive vocalization
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
libation · worship · mysteries · torchlight · altar · incantation · invocation · oracle
Dionysus
Greek deity of wine
Orpheus · Thrace · Ariadne · ivy · sparagmos · Agave · Orphism
vine
Trailing climbing plant
- grapesClustered vine fruit
- intoxicationSubstance-induced mental impairment
- libationCeremonial drink offering
drinking · goblet · vintage · vineyard · inebriation · drunkenness · symposium · krater · amphora · revelry
mania
Intense, consuming obsession
- deliriumAcute mental disorientation
- madnessMental derangement or folly
- ecstasyOverwhelming intense delight
rapture · possession · trance · intoxication · euphoria · fervor · hysteria · berserk · wildness · abandon
carousal
Boisterous drinking spree
- feastElaborate ceremonial meal
- orgyUnrestrained collective indulgence
- celebrationFestive event marking occasion
dancing · merriment · festival · carnival · reveling · procession · merrymaking · nocturnal · torchlit · abandon
initiation
Formal admission ceremony
- ritesFormal ceremonial acts
- processionFormal moving line
- chantingRhythmic repetitive vocalization
sacrifice · libation · worship · mysteries · torchlight · altar · incantation · invocation · oracle · purification
bacchantsascetics
People practicing severe self-discipline
teetotalers · monks · nuns · meditators · abstainers
bacchantscontemplatives
Those practicing sustained reflection
Quakers · Buddhist monks · Trappists · cenobites · scholastics
bacchantsprudes
Overly modest people
moralists · gentlemen · pillars of society · conformists · bourgeoisie
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