Bacchic Mountain Dance (Ancient Greek Lyre Music)

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A nightclub is more religious than a church, as it is the place where the original religious rituals of our prehistory still take place today. The act of dancing to music, forgetting ones problems, losing ones sense of individual self and becoming part of a larger whole or feeling at one with others have always been natuaral human needs. Whether they take place in a shamanic circle, Dionysian procession, dance hall or rock concert, the psychological benefits which this behaviour brings are not lost on us.
What is a religious communion and where do these rituals come from? Eating & drinking are religious rituals. When we eat we assimilate the properties or nutrients of the food. If we ourselves were to be eaten our own powers would be taken on by our devourer. This is clear in early religions that were agricultural, the God was in the food which was grown and then consumed. This idea has survived even into the monotheisms with bread representing the God whose powers are taken on through being eaten. The meaning of communion is precisely this, to take on the powers of the God by eating him or her. This sort of communion is common and is apparent from the Bacchaic rituals of Dionysos to Jesus' last supper. The baccants eat the raw flesh of animals and drink wine to become intoxicated with the power of the God just as a Christian comes to be one with Christ by eating the bread & wine of communion. We should speak less of the food of the gods, like Terrence McKenna does, and see rather that the food is the God itself. When we eat we assimilate the powers, which is still apparent in the Christian tradition of thanking God before commencing a meal. We take our powers from whatever we choose to eat and assimilate into our bodies. As it is commonly said that character can be determined by diet. This is more specifically the case with those who choose to consume what our society calls "drugs". Narcotics have always been considered to be powerfully spiritual and hence their demonisation as "drugs" in modern societies. Both Catholicism and the secular state have felt threatened by the individuals direct contact to the divine through these mediums, not needing an intermediary. There are many examples similar to the better known Dionysiac cult of intoxication through wine, such as Corn Dolly deities sacrificed in various rural communities even to this day and age. The God is drunk as ale, or eaten as mushrooms and other psychedelics, which are now considered "drugs" were once called entheogens, quite literally to "put the God within you". This is also clear with the idea of the state of ecstasy. Literally from the greek for ex- stasis, out of the body.
Nightclubbers are thus engaging in the same Dionysian or shamanistic rituals today when they let a combination of music, alcohol & drugs, get them out of their everyday experience. A night club is then far more religious than a church, as it is only here where people, quite unknowingly for the most part, engage in the original religious rituals of dance and intoxication to become one with the world around them, while partaking of the same cathartic benefits that this ritualistic behaviour has always had and still brings us.
More lyre music available at: / ataraxia-alpha
Thanks for listening!

[@anto-sk4ce]

Here in sicily, when someone says that the food he is eating is bad, there is a proverb that goes lile "don't say it! There's jesus in the food!" i don't know if it is related to the agricultural religions' heritage but it's interesting, i've Never thought about it

[@DionisoBaco.]

Probabilmente. Dioniso era considerato "il cibo", e insieme alla dea Demetra erano "il pane e il vino", la stessa idea dell'eucaristia della chiesa cattolica o anche del cristianesimo in generale, tutti originati dalle divinità agricole.

[@titaschoudhury4556]

Love the description! The ancient customs of Greece live on, unmentioned yet on the front, with different names, through time. Also enjoyed the music deeply

[@leandroscorieltauvorum]

yeah, music still has its raw power, no matter how sophisticated... or "primitive" 😀

[@dire-decadence]

What I would do to have partaken in a Bacchanalia!

[@VsevolodSidorenko]

if you have enough money its not hard to organize right now

[@leandroscorieltauvorum]

yeah, although i see that any modern nightclub has the same rituals, I'd still love to go to one with ancient music!

[@dire-decadence]

@@leandroscorieltauvorumto be sure!

[@craigsurette3438]

Be careful. Some people get torn apart alive and eaten at Bacchinalia .Ask Penthus ;)

[@craigsurette3438]

IO Dionyssos !

[@cris88acquario]

"A nightclub is more religious than a church, as it is the place where the original religious rituals of our prehistory still take place today." Oh, that's what I always said ;D

[@ThefrenziedMercury]

"prehistory"? Maybe you could be still right if the subject were the cavemen.

[@zealotzealot4848]

What do you smoke?

[@cris88acquario]

@@ThefrenziedMercury You are right Mr. Pedant, you can pat yourself on your shoulder. Edit: on a second thought (it took me some time to process)... Cavemen are prehistoric. So I don't understand the point of your comment.

[@cris88acquario]

@@zealotzealot4848 davidoff gold slim ✌🏻

[@zealotzealot4848]

@@cris88acquario no, you smoke cheap marijuana.

[@despis2160]

Υπέροχο ! γιατί λείπουν όλα αυτά από την εκπαίδευση μας;

[@leandroscorieltauvorum]

Γειά σου! Δεν νομίζω ότι λείπει, γιατί δεν χρειάζεται να κατανοήσουμε τη μουσική και τον πολιτισμό πνευματικά για να μπορέσουμε να λάβουμε τα οφέλη... 😌

[@Jobe-13]

Nice

[@m.valentina3387]

Está la versión completa de la película por KZbin?

[@leandroscorieltauvorum]

82 / 5,000 Hola, no sé a qué película te refieres, esta canción es de un jam que hicimos hace un tiempo 😄

[@arturzitosqgostadechitus3289]

Who recorded this?

[@zealotzealot4848]

Homeros

[@sheipi4766]

It was in Alexander´s spotify favs list

[@leandroscorieltauvorum]

I wouldn't upload any music that wasn't my own 😁

[@calonarang7378]

I prefer to stay abstinent, smoke all day and trip to look for Absolution.

[@user-yb2mn3to4v]

Болше на монгольского музику похожа

[@zealotzealot4848]

Это не греческая музыка. Это фантазии современных профанов.

[@zealotzealot4848]

Mongol music. It's not Greek

[@HyperBoreana-mf4ql]

false

[@zealotzealot4848]

@@HyperBoreana-mf4ql it's mongol music. Greek music is different.

[@HyperBoreana-mf4ql]

@@zealotzealot4848 modern greek music is different, ancient greek music is similar to east asian music bc of its use of pentatonic & the instruments.

[@zealotzealot4848]

@@HyperBoreana-mf4ql Greeks did not come from East Asia. Greeks always lived in Greek lands. They have nothing to do with mongols.

[@desi9390]

It is greek. Mongolian has throat singing. Which is not featured in the video. And Mongolian people usually use different instruments than the ones used here. I'm sorry your racist beliefs made you think you and ancient Greeks were some higher people. News flash, we've all been on this earth for a long time and you can't fool anyone with the "civilized" and "uncivilized" thing. All societies and cultures were/are all wonderful and part of great civilizations. But being civilized isn't just a westerner or a white people thing. In fact, white people around the world have a huge history of being violent, money hungry brutes. So where's the civilized behavior in that? Yes all cultures and people have acted in violence. But never on such a destructive scale and oppressive power as white colonizers. May the world go back before what blood thirsty brutes told us it was. The world is for all of us.