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ORGY (through French from Lat. orgia, Gr. 6pyca, in derivation connected probably with 'ipyov, work; cf. Lat. operare, to sacrifice)

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 269 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ORC-PAI
ORGY (through French from Lat. orgia, Gr. 6pyca, in derivation connected probably with 'ipyov, work; cf. Lat. operare, to sacrifice) , a
term
  originally denoting the
secret
  rites or ceremonies connected with the
worship
  of certain deities, especially those of Dionysus-Bacchus. The Dionysiac orgies, which were restricted to women, were celebrated in the winter among the Thracian hills or in spots remote from city life. The women met, clad in fawn-skins, with
hair
  dishevelled, swinging the thyrsus and beating the cymbal; they danced and worked themselves up to a state of mad excitement. The holiest rites took place at night by the light of torches. A
bull
 , the representative of the god, was torn in pieces by them as Dionysus-Zagreus had been torn; his bellowing reproduced the cries of the suffering god. The women tore the
bull
  with their teeth, and the eating of the raw flesh was a necessary part of the ritual. Some further rites, which varied in different districts, represented the resurrection of the god in the
spring
 . On
Mount
 
Parnassus
  the women carried back Dionysus-Licnites, the child cradled in the winnowing fan. The most famous festival of the kind was the Tpiropls celebrated every second winter on
Parnassus
  by the women of Attica and
Phocis
 . The celebrants were called
Maenads
  or Bacchae. The ecstatic enthusiasm of the Thracian women, KXc roves or MiaXAoues, was especially distinguished. The wild dances, songs, drinking and other " orgiastic " ceremonies which were characteristic of these rites have given rise to the use of the word "orgy " for any drunken, wild revel or festivity (see DIONYSUS and MYSTERY).


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