{"id":1187,"date":"2013-10-12T12:48:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T17:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.wordpress.com\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2013-10-12T12:48:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T17:48:09","slug":"dionysiac-sketches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/12\/dionysiac-sketches\/","title":{"rendered":"Dionysiac Sketches"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A pair of sketches from the last few days: a female satyr (unattested in the 5th and 4th centuries Greece, but appearingin the Roman era and rife in later neo-Classical periods) and a Dionysiac phallus.<\/p>\n

From Eric Csapo:<\/p>\n

The zoomorphic concept of the phallus is pervasive in Greek thought-one has only to think of the many representations of phallus birds<\/strong> in Greek art.\u00a0 It is also essentially Dionysiac. The phallus icon of Dionysus and the phalli carried<\/strong> in Dionysiac processions are always regarded as independent living organisms,<\/strong> of which the glans is a head, equipped with eyes<\/strong> and sometimes with (phallic, horse-like) ears and other animal attributes (see Plates 1A, 1B, 1C, 3, 4, 8A, 8B).41 The eyes, ears, and the phallus are the essential organs of the Dionysiac creature, but especially the eyes and phallus, because, though one can be possessed by music through one’s ears and possess others through theirs, it is by one’s own <\/strong>eyes and phallus that one is both possessed and takes possession.<\/strong>
\n— p.260 \u201cRiding the Phallus for Dionysus: Iconology, Ritual, and Gender-Role De\/Construction.\u201d Phoenix.<\/i> 51. no.3\/4 (Autumn \u2013 Winter, 1997): 253-295. Emphasis mine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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