#bacchus temple

[cocainaenvenenada]

Jonestown | a protestant utopia.

#newscore #crackheads #ground #catholic #bacchus temple #vatican #satanic church #jonestown

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 10: Ancient History III

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration. I'm combining some similar ones, so some are going to be a little vague. I'm going to also split into a whole lot of different polls because there were so many good and creative ideas. (Seriously, I love the people of Tumblr).

Please add new suggestions for this category below if you have them for future consideration.

You are welcome to suggest specific things from the Library of Alexandria. There will be polls for that.

#Time Travel #The Acropolis #The Library of Alexandria #Eleusinian Mysteries #Indigenous History #Bacchus #Great Zimbabwe #Ancient Egypt #Akrotiri #Thera #Minoan #Jewish History #The First Temple #Picantes #Etruscans #Dacians

[didoofcarthage]

Baalbek from the South and Interior of the North Wall of the Temple of Jupiter [Temple of Bacchus, Baalbek, Lebanon] by Francis Bedford 

English, 1862

albumen print

Royal Collection Trust

#Baalbek #Lebanon #ruins #photography #Francis Bedford #English #photo #photograph #Temple of Jupiter #Temple of Bacchus #albumen print #Royal Collection Trust #columns #temple

[philoursmars]

Au Louvre-Lens, il y avait une expo fort intéressante : “Champollion - La Voie des Hiéroglyphes”, sur l’homme, son époque, l’image de l’Egypte en Europe avant l’Egyptologie....

- à part le dernier : le camée Carpegna du Triomphe de Bacchus - 50 apr. J-C. ; monté par Luigi Valandier, 1780

- le dernier : lion du Sérapéum - Saqqara, temple de Nectanébo, Basse époque, 370 av. J-C.

#louvre-lens #égypte ancienne #égypte #champollion #archéologie #expo #la voie des hiéroglyphes #camée #camée carpegna #carpegna #bacchus #lion #sérapéum #luigi valandier #saqqara #nectanébo #basse époque #temple de nectanébo

[kvetch19]

Temple of Bacchus in Baalbek, Lebanon

#bacchus #temple of bacchus #blue skies #dyonisus

[dlyarchitecture]

#The Temple of Bacchus (Lebanon) #it was the biggest one in the Roman empire

[lionofchaeronea]

Baalbec: Ruins of the Temple of Bacchus, David Roberts, 1840

#art #art history #David Roberts #landscape #landscape painting #ruins #Baalbec #Baalbek #Lebanon #Orientalism #Orientalist art #British art #Scottish art #19th century art #oil on canvas #Walker Art Gallery

[howamidrivinginlimbo]

Artifacts of Pompeii, in Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

1. Fresco of Bacchus and Mount Vesuvius. 2. Roman amphora with cupids and Dionysian harvesting. 3. Roman padlock, fibula and other tools. 4. Fresco of Serapis between two cobras, from the Temple of Isis.

#pompeii #ancient history #roman art #antiquity #ancient art #ancient rome #archeology #roman empire #napoli #naples #italy #italia #italytravel #art history #history #museum #fresco painting #ancient #amphora #bacchus #dionysos #egyptian gods #gods #mythology #greek mythology #roman mythology #museum photography #art museum #travel #travel photography

[psikonauti]

Marc Chagall (Russian-French, 1887–1985)

Temple Et Histoire De Bacchus, 1961

Lithograph printed in colours

#Marc Chagall #upl #va #art #prints #lithograph

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778), "View of the interior of the Tomb of Saint Costanza, built by Constantine the Great, and erroneously called the Temple of Bacchus, now the Church of Saint Costaza"

#Giovanni Battista Piranesi #art #drawing #neoclassicism #rome #ancient rome #classical architecture #medieval architecture #columns #18th century art

[mask131]

The Dionysos gallery (2)

Next on our travel down the Dionysos museum, we have an entire section dedicated to the Bacchanals in painting - with a few analysis here and there.

Titien's The Bacchanal of the Andrians

The Museum's website adds that this depicts the legend of how Dionysos gifted the inhabitants of the island of Andros with a river of wine. It was one of the numerous "miracles" attributed to the god by folk-belief when he became the god of the grapevine. Already in his "Bacchants" Euripides had told how, by touching a stone with his thyrsus he created a stream of fresh water, and where his narthex had touched the ground a stream of wine flowed ; and those that sought milk only had to scratch the ground near the god to see it flow, and from the god's thyrsus honey dropped...

In Ionia, on the island of Teos, a similar legend existed: it was said, by Diodor of Sicily and Pline the Elder, that at a fixed date in a calendar a stream of wine regularly flowed. At Elis, on the eve of the god's feast-day, empty jars and jugs were sealed and left alone in Dionysos' temple: by the morning, when they were opened, they were filled to the brim with wine.

Giovanni Bellini and Titien's The Feast of the Gods

The museum adds this mention: the painting is a depiction of the legend of Lotis collected by Ovid. One night, as the gods had a feast, the nymph Lotis fell asleep. Priapus got close to her, and with his famous ithyphallic nature, he decided to rape her. But as he was about to touch her body, the donkey of Silenus started making loud noises - waking up everybody, including Lotis. Lotis fled from Priapus' embrace, and all the gods laughed and mocked the god.

This painting was most notably the favorite painting of Fernand Botero.

Dosso Dossi's Bacchanal with a drunk Silenus and Bacchants frolicking around grapevine

Niccolo Frangipane's Bacchanal

Nicolas Poussin's Bacchanal

Nicolas Poussin's Bacchanal with a guitar player ; also called "Great Bacchanal"

Nicolas Poussin's Bacchic Scene

Pier Francesco Mola's Bacchus supervising the Satyrs pressing wine

Gerrit van Bronckhorst's Bacchanal with Silenus

Jacob van Loo's Scene with Bacchants

Michaelina Wautier's Bacchanal

Jacques Jordaens' Bacchanal

Giulio Carpioni's Bacchanal

Michel-Ange Houasse's Bacchanal

Francesco Zuccarelli's Bacchanal

#dionysos #the art of the myth #dionysus #bacchanal #the dionysos gallery #silenus #bacchants #greek mythology #painting #art

[ancientorigins]

A spectacular view of the immense Roman Temple of Bacchus (aka Temple of the Sun) at Baalbek in the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon - dedicated to the Roman god of wine. Built between 150 and 250 CE.

[lux-vitae]

Baalbek, Ruins of the Temple of Bacchus by David Roberts (1840)

#david roberts #art

[superstjarnasvass2171]

Dionysus/Bacchus!

@bacchant-of-dionysus @devoted-to-the-gods @goldenlyre @honeyedawn @just-another-dionysus-devotee @miss-oshun99 @nysus-temple

#dionysus deity #bacchus #polytheism #hellenic polytheism

[bruntalism]

Baalbec - Ruins of the Temple of Bacchus 1840 David Roberts

[the-chronicle-of-holy-days]

Day 12

Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli

III

1. I was the priest of Ammon-Ra in the temple of Ammon-Ra at Thebai.

2. But Bacchus came singing with his troops of vine-clad girls, of girls in dark mantles; and Bacchus in the midst like a fawn!

3. God! how I ran out in my rage and scattered the chorus!

4. But in my temple stood Bacchus as the priest of Ammon-Ra.

5. Therefore I went wildly with the girls into Abyssinia; and there we abode and rejoiced.

6. Exceedingly; yea, in good sooth!

7. I will eat the ripe and the unripe fruit for the glory of Bacchus.

8. Terraces of ilex, and tiers of onyx and opal and sardonyx leading up to the cool green porch of malachite.

9. Within is a crystal shell, shaped like an oyster — O glory of Priapus! O beatitude of the Great Goddess!

10. Therein is a pearl.

11. O Pearl! thou hast come from the majesty of dread Ammon-Ra.

12. Then I the priest beheld a steady glitter in the heart of the pearl.

13. So bright we could not look! But behold! a blood-red rose upon a rood of glowing gold!

14. So I adored the God. Bacchus! thou art the lover of my God!

15. I who was priest of Ammon-Ra, who saw the Nile flow by for many moons, for many, many moons, am the young fawn of the grey land.

16. I will set up my dance in your conventicles, and my secret loves shall be sweet among you.

17. Thou shalt have a lover among the lords of the grey land.

18. This shall he bring unto thee, without which all is in vain; a man’s life spilt for thy love upon My Altars.

19. Amen.

20. Let it be soon, O God, my God! I ache for Thee, I wander very lonely among the mad folk, in the grey land of desolation.

21. Thou shalt set up the abominable lonely Thing of wickedness. Oh joy! to lay that corner-stone!

22. It shall stand erect upon the high mountain; only my God shall commune with it.

23. I will build it of a single ruby; it shall be seen from afar off.

24. Come! let us irritate the vessels of the earth: they shall distil strange wine.

25. It grows under my hand: it shall cover the whole heaven.

26. Thou art behind me: I scream with a mad joy.

27. Then said Ithuriel the strong; let Us also worship this invisible marvel!

28. So did they, and the archangels swept over the heaven.

29. Strange and mystic, like a yellow priest invoking mighty flights of great grey birds from the North, so do I stand and invoke Thee!

30. Let them obscure not the sun with their wings and their clamour!

31. Take away form and its following!

32. I am still.

33. Thou art like an osprey among the rice, I am the great red pelican in the sunset waters.

34. I am like a black eunuch; and Thou art the scimitar. I smite off the head of the light one, the breaker of bread and salt.

35. Yea! I smite — and the blood makes as it were a sunset on the lapis lazuli of the King’s Bedchamber.

36. I smite! The whole world is broken up into a mighty wind, and a voice cries aloud in a tongue that men cannot speak.

37. I know that awful sound of primal joy; let us follow on the wings of the gale even unto the holy house of Hathor; let us offer the five jewels of the cow upon her altar!

38. Again the inhuman voice!

39. I rear my Titan bulk into the teeth of the gale, and I smite and prevail, and swing me out over the sea.

40. There is a strange pale God, a god of pain and deadly wickedness.

41. My own soul bites into itself, like a scorpion ringed with fire.

42. That pallid God with face averted, that God of subtlety and laughter, that young Doric God, him will I serve.

43. For the end thereof is torment unspeakable.

44. Better the loneliness of the great grey sea!

45. But ill befall the folk of the grey land, my God!

46. Let me smother them with my roses!

47. Oh Thou delicious God, smile sinister!

48. I pluck Thee, O my God, like a purple plum upon a sunny tree. How Thou dost melt in my mouth, Thou consecrated sugar of the Stars!

49. The world is all grey before mine eyes; it is like an old worn wine-skin.

50. All the wine of it is on these lips.

51. Thou hast begotten me upon a marble Statue, O my God!

52. The body is icy cold with the coldness of a million moons; it is harder than the adamant of eternity. How shall I come forth into the light?

53. Thou art He, O God! O my darling! my child! my plaything! Thou art like a cluster of maidens, like a multitude of swans upon the lake.

54. I feel the essence of softness.

55. I am hard and strong and male; but come Thou! I shall be soft and weak and feminine.

56. Thou shalt crush me in the wine-press of Thy love. My blood shall stain Thy fiery feet with litanies of Love in Anguish.

57. There shall be a new flower in the fields, a new vintage in the vineyards.

58. The bees shall gather a new honey; the poets shall sing a new song.

59. I shall gain the Pain of the Goat for my prize; and the God that sitteth upon the shoulders of Time shall drowse.

60. Then shall all this which is written be accomplished: yea, it shall be accomplished

#thelema #thelemic holy season #argentum astrum #holy days #silver star #tarot #wheel of fortune