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.

    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
    Next give me this thyrsos from your hands.
    bacchae
    Take it from me yourself.
    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