maenad
Wine god's reveler
A maenad was a female follower of Dionysus in Greek mythology, known for ecstatic, frenzied worship involving wine, dancing, and sometimes violent ritual.
The word now describes any woman in a state of wild frenzy or intoxication: She danced like a maenad, oblivious to everyone around her.
The image suggests abandon that borders on madness.
Greek deity of wine
- BacchusRoman wine god
- satyrGoat-legged forest deity
- nymphNature spirit or larva
- ThebesAncient city, two locations
Euripides · sparagmos · ivy · vine · wine · revelry · Agave · Orphism
Acute mental disorientation
- maniaIntense, consuming obsession
- furyIntense violent anger
- rageIntense, violent anger
- hysteriaUncontrollable emotional excess
rapture · ecstasy · possession · trance · abandon · wildness · rampage · pandemonium
Formal ceremonial acts
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
- processionFormal moving line
- chantingRhythmic repetitive vocalization
invocation · sacrifice · libation · offering · torch · dance · drumming · mysteries
Not domesticated
- feralWild after domestication
- savageFierce and untamed
- primalFirst in origin
- animalisticResembling brute nature
unbridled · unrestrained · frenzied · fierce · possessed · raving · disheveled · barefoot
Dionysus
Greek deity of wine
Thebes · Euripides · sparagmos · ivy · vine · wine · revelry · Agave · Orphism
delirium
Acute mental disorientation
hysteria · rapture · ecstasy · possession · trance · abandon · wildness · rampage · pandemonium · tumult
rites
Formal ceremonial acts
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
- processionFormal moving line
chanting · invocation · sacrifice · libation · offering · torch · dance · drumming · mysteries · initiation
untamed
Not domesticated
animalistic · unbridled · unrestrained · frenzied · fierce · possessed · raving · disheveled · barefoot · roaming
- DionysusDionysus, bacchantes, bacchante, grape vines, grapevine
- Female Spiritsbanshee, ghost bride, La Llorona, lady in white, white lady
- pastoral spiritssatyr, faun, nymph, dryad, Pan
- priestesseshigh priestess, sibyl, sacred virgin, druidess, mambo