{"id":6332,"date":"2014-03-05T20:18:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T03:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6332"},"modified":"2014-03-05T21:58:13","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T04:58:13","slug":"phallephoria-2014-in-athens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6332","title":{"rendered":"Phallephoria 2014 \u2014\u00a0Honoring Dionysus in Athens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QWfMNlxHeIw?list=UUxO68xwEQkp0am4aKIbzzig\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nTwo things.<\/p>\n<p>1. &#8220;Phallephoria, the carrying of a phallus in procession in honor of Dionysus. For the first time after almost two thousand years, Phallephoria was celebrated in Athens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And that is tremendous. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LVQ9CxtRRpU\">There is also a longer, 30-minute YouTube video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although the weather looks rainy in the video, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagedaily.com\/2014\/03\/how-ancient-greek-plays-allow-us-to-reconstruct-europes-climate\/102354\">was it always so, archaeologists wonder.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 After thirty-some years of attending festivals, I know that the Wiccan ritual model of casting a circle is not the solution for big groups\u2014too much standing around and waiting. Instead, the quintessential Pagan large-group creation of ritual space should be by processing, whether in the streets or the open country.<\/p>\n<p>And the Greeks do a good job with masking too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two things. 1. &#8220;Phallephoria, the carrying of a phallus in procession in honor of Dionysus. For the first time after almost two thousand years, Phallephoria was celebrated in Athens.&#8221; And that is tremendous. There is also a longer, 30-minute YouTube video Although the weather looks rainy in the video, was it always so, archaeologists wonder. 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