Years ago, Dr Marv Myer, a wonderful professor at Chapman University who also shed light on th Gospel of Judas, professed that the Dionysus and maenads orges were the prototype for the Christ Eucharist. Those Christians get so mad when they discover their pagan roots!
Yes I have seen that suggestion too. Early Christians apparently explained away the close resemblance of Christian mythology to other dying and resurrecting deities either by saying that they were prefiguring Christ or that the devil sent them to confuse the faithful (or something). But I thought it would be more fun to write a post about willies 🍆
What's interesting to me is that because I only first saw the still image with everyone standing in front of the table/catwalk with the train on it, I didn't really see how anyone was getting a reference to either event out of it. Then I heard it was supposed to be the Feast of Dionysus and had to go searching for more information. I finally found the image with Dionysus on the table. I'll admit that I'm not familiar with Greek mythology, but that was certainly enough to convince me it wasn't the Last Supper!
A lot of the photos only showed 12 people, when there were actually 17 people in the show. Looks like they were deliberately cropping the photos to make it look more like the last supper. Hmm, I wonder what they wanted to distract us from? Another massacre in Palestine perhaps? Or the fact that the Orange Beast told them they would never have to vote again if they vote for him?
I meant, of course, a fascinator on your hat, not a fascinating. Darn autocorrect
And here is the painting of the Greek gods feasting which is possibly the one that the tableau was based on
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/jan-hermansz-van-bijlert-le-festin-des-dieux-the-feast-of-the-gods
Years ago, Dr Marv Myer, a wonderful professor at Chapman University who also shed light on th Gospel of Judas, professed that the Dionysus and maenads orges were the prototype for the Christ Eucharist. Those Christians get so mad when they discover their pagan roots!
Yes I have seen that suggestion too. Early Christians apparently explained away the close resemblance of Christian mythology to other dying and resurrecting deities either by saying that they were prefiguring Christ or that the devil sent them to confuse the faithful (or something). But I thought it would be more fun to write a post about willies 🍆
And what wonderful images you found!
Wild Hunt article with (mostly positive) reactions from Hellenic polytheists
https://wildhunt.org/2024/07/hellenic-pagans-polytheists-react-to-the-olympics-opening-ceremony-controversy.html
What's interesting to me is that because I only first saw the still image with everyone standing in front of the table/catwalk with the train on it, I didn't really see how anyone was getting a reference to either event out of it. Then I heard it was supposed to be the Feast of Dionysus and had to go searching for more information. I finally found the image with Dionysus on the table. I'll admit that I'm not familiar with Greek mythology, but that was certainly enough to convince me it wasn't the Last Supper!
A lot of the photos only showed 12 people, when there were actually 17 people in the show. Looks like they were deliberately cropping the photos to make it look more like the last supper. Hmm, I wonder what they wanted to distract us from? Another massacre in Palestine perhaps? Or the fact that the Orange Beast told them they would never have to vote again if they vote for him?