Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Objects

    Thyrsos

    object · 3 works · 4 mentions · 8 anchored passages

    thyrsus · thyrsos · Bacchantes thyrsus-bearing · ivy-clad staff · the wand · thyrsoi

    in the texts

    BacchaeClassical · Greek

    The ivy-wreathed wand carried by Dionysus and his devotees as the emblem and weapon of Bacchic worship.

    Take it from me yourself.
    bacchae
    Next give me this thyrsos from your hands.
    bacchae
    In this land of Hellas, I have first excited Thebes to my cry, fitting a fawn-skin to my body and taking a thyrsos in my hand, a weapon of ivy.
    bacchae

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    Ritual implement of Dionysiac rites, used as a metaphor for the many who are merely called rather than truly chosen.

    "For there are, as those concerned with the rites say, many bearers of the thyrsus, but few bacchants" — hinting that the called are many, but the chosen few.
    book 1

    CyclopsClassical · Greek

    The fennel staff tipped with a pine cone, emblem of Dionysiac worship, whose absence is lamented by the enslaved Satyrs

    no dances here, or Bacchantes thyrsus-bearing;
    cyclops