{"id":13261,"date":"2023-03-03T18:28:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T01:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13261"},"modified":"2023-03-03T20:28:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T03:28:13","slug":"phallephoria-2023-paganism-in-the-streets-of-athens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13261","title":{"rendered":"Phallephoria 2023 \u2014 Paganism in the Streets of Athens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wWrz1SJZit0?start=6\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2014, I posted about a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6332\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revival after 2,000 years of Phallephoria, the festival of Dionysus in the city of Athens, rain or not.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was a break for Covid, but now it&#8217;s back. And look how many people are following the costumed participants now! Look at the 2014 video and then at this one to see the difference!<\/p>\n<p>Some dancers are still wearing body suits \u2014 well, it <em>is<\/em> February.<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone wants to live and breathe Paganism 24\/7. But give them something to participate in  , and they will be there. Don&#8217;t turn your backs on the polis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisathens.org\/events\/phallephoria-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">After all, the polis wants to put it in the tourist guide.<\/a> Learn more from the <a href=\"https:\/\/phalliphoria.gr\/en\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">organizers&#8217; website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2014, I posted about a revival after 2,000 years of Phallephoria, the festival of Dionysus in the city of Athens, rain or not. There was a break for Covid, but now it&#8217;s back. And look how many people are following the costumed participants now! Look at the 2014 video and then at this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[321,33,5,298],"class_list":["post-13261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dionysus","tag-greece","tag-paganism","tag-ritual"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-3rT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6332,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6332","url_meta":{"origin":13261,"position":0},"title":"Phallephoria 2014 \u2014\u00a0Honoring Dionysus in Athens","author":"Chas S. 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Frazer's The Golden Bough. In its day, it was academic. 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