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Anonymous ID: ca4d56 April 2, 2019, 8:25 a.m. No.6017602   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7688 >>7959

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  1. THE BACCHANALIAN CULT IN THE MEDIAEVAL WESTERN EUROPE

 

'Classical Antiquity', the Dionysian bacchanalian cult was widespread in Western Europe not in 'deep antiquity', but in the XIII-XVI cc. It was one of the forms of the Royal Christianity. Ceremonial prostitution was an integral part of Western Christian liturgy. Another example is the cult of love in some Indian temples on the Hindustan peninsula.

 

The necessity to restrain the orgiastic cult inspired the establishment of the Imperial Inquisition and the enactment of rigorous reforms both in the church and social life of Europe in the XV-XVI cc. In the Eastern Orthodox Church and, in particular, in Russia, bacchanalian practices have never proliferated. That is why there was no Inquisition in the Orthodox Church. It was due to the pressure of the negative implications of the bacchanalian religious ceremonies that the Western Church was compelled to ban the Dionysian orgies and to change over to a more moderate form of the cult [1v], [2v1], ch.1.

 

The famous descriptions of the 'diabolical Sabbaths' in Western Europe tell us about the same Christian 'agape'-Bacchanalias, but already declared by the reformers of the Western Church to be the 'work of the devil'. One of the main characteristics of the agape-Sabbaths, as the Scaligerian history tells us, were the orgiastic Bacchanalia. Naturally, the new Western 'Renovated Church' put the onus for the agape-Bacchanalia on the 'devil' in order to smother any recollections among the congregation of their quite recent bacchic-Christian past. It was ruthlessly cut off and accredited to a 'different religion'. And under a term 'classical antiquity' banished it to the deep past.

 

A XIX century scientist Champfleury wrote: 'Time after time when I explored the old cathedrals in an attempt to uncover the mysterious truth behind their beguiling indecent ornamentation, all of my explanations seemed to me to be a commentary on a book written in some language which was entirely foreign to me… What is one to think, for example, of a strange sculpture placed in a shadow of a column of a subterranean hall in a Mediaeval Cathedral in Bourges?' Quoted according to [544], v.5, p.661. The human buttocks in an indecent pose and analogous imagery are being depicted [2v1], ch.1.

 

All such imagery and sculptures are not the mockery of the church, but have the same purely invitational meaning as an image of the jugs of beer spewing froth above the doors of the German beerhouses. Of course, all of this meant something only prior to the unfolding repressions of the new evangelical church and Imperial Inquisition of the XV-XVI cc. against the Western Christian Bacchanalian cult.

 

http://chronologia.org/en/how_it_was/05_08.html#the9