Ménades
In the Greek Mythology, the Ménades (in Greek old Μαινάδες / Mainádes , of μαίνομαι / maínomai , “to be delirious”), or Bacchantes at the Roman , is the accompanying ones of Dionysos.
The majority of the ménades are the nurses of the god, the nymph S of the mount Nysa, to which Hermes had entrusted the divine infant. They escort it, vêtues skins of animals, while playing of the tambourine and by shaking their thyrse S, in prey with is delirious dionysiaque.
One also designates by this name the participants of the Dionysies, celebrations religious Athenian in the honor of the god.
The accompanying ones of Dionysos are drunk permanently and carry tattooings on the face as a camouflage. They do not pay attention so that they make. They sing the joy of driving out the goats. When sometimes Ménades become insane, they do not have any pity, dismembering the unhappy travellers and by eating their raw flesh (see in particular Orphée). Their month of predilection is that of October because it is the time of the Vendange S.
Is delirious, characteristic qualifying ménades, is not only ethyl. The participating ones of Dionysies consumed beer added with bays of ivy, poisons, but psychodysleptic with low dose, as well as mushrooms like the Fly agaric, Hallucinogène.
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