I think I’m going to have to slightly modify my offer, because I just remembered that I’m going to be helping Pete Helms put on a ritual for Ares at the Hellenic Revival Gathering.
That makes doing the Maiuma there a very bad idea.
It was basically a week-long festival celebrating Dionysos and Aphrodite boinking each other. Although there were all sorts of parades and theatrical shows and lavish dinner parties leading up to it, the culmination was a mad, drunken rush into the waves followed by a communal orgy. It was such a popular festival in Rome and Antioch that a Byzantine Christian emperor had to repeal the laws against the festival or risk insurrection.
Be that as it may, I’m not going to be the one to rub the god of war’s nose in his wife’s infidelity.
Smart satyrs get to keep their skin.
Tagged: aphrodite, ares, dionysos
