The God of Ecstasy Through the Ages
The long, strange life of Dionysus
Man, religion used to be pretty different from what it is today. Nowadays, we associate faith with a certain seriousness. Religion is supposed to be morally strict, buttoned down, elevated. But this hasn’t always been the way people have worshipped the divine.
There’s no better example of how different some ancient religions used to be than the worship …
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