Revival of the Mystery Megagraphy Pompeii

Revival of the Mystery Megagraphy Pompeii

In a large banqueting hall excavated a few weeks ago in the heart of Pompeii, in Insula 10 of Regio 9 a nearly life-size bas-relief was discovered Megalography comes from the Greek large picture 1st century BC A slaughtered goat is carried on its shoulder or holds a sword and its entrails A young satyr with pointed ears plays a pair of flutes while another performs an acrobatic act of sacrificial wine pouring wine from an animal's horn into a low cup a patera. The new large-scale frescoes reveal the mysteries of Dionysus in the classical world The frescoed hall appears with the initiation into the mysteries and the procession of Dionysus 

This is a rare megagraphy like the famous Villa of Secrets More than 100 years after the discovery of the Villa of Secrets a cycle of large human figures which stretches around three sides of the room the fourth side opens onto a garden The bas-reliefs show a procession of Dionysus the god of wine Bacchans is depicted as a dancer but also as a fierce hunter

Pompeii from UNA SALA AFFRESCATA The beginning of AI Mister and Corteo Di Dioniso 

and UNA RARISSIMA "MEGALOGRAFIA" of SEC. A.C. came to La Celebrima Villa dei Mister.

In the center of the picture is a woman and an old man Silenus holding torches She is the proto or dead woman who having undergone the nightly rites is about to enter into the mystery of Dionysus the god who died and came back to life promising his followers. Discovered in the Villa of Mysteries a new large-scale fresco reveals the mysteries of Dionysus in the classical world A young satyr with pointed ears plays a pair of flutes while another performs an acrobatic ritual of offering wine pouring wine from drinking horns over his shoulders into a low pedera In the center of the painting is a woman with an old Silenus holding a torch The maiden who has undergone the nightly ritual is about to be introduced to the mysteries of Dionysus a god who died and came back to life by promising his followers

Dionysus extending a drinking cup kantharos late sixth century BC

Dionysus was the last god to be admitted to Mount Olympus He was the youngest god and the only one born to a mortal mother Dionysus god of the grape harvest winemaking and wine The ritual hysteria and ecstasy in the Linear B tablets suggest that he may have been worshipped by the Mycenaean Greeks from around 1500–1100 BC Traces of a Dionysian cult can be found in the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete His origins are uncertain and his cult has many forms Some ancient sources describe it as Thracean some as Greek and some as Eastern. His festivals were the driving force behind the development of Greek drama. He was an example of a dying god Foreign traditions may have inherited and were important to the cult and were popular in Greek mythology and religion and are included in the list of Olympian gods