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:''This article is about the form of worship in ancient Greek religion. For other uses, see Orgy.'' In ancient Greek religion, an ''orgion'' (ὄργιον, more commonly in the plural ''orgia'') was an ecstatic form of worship characteristic of some mystery cults.〔Georg Luck, ''Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds'' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985, 2006, 2nd ed.), p. 504.〕 The ''orgion'' is in particular a cult ceremony of Dionysos (or Zagreus), celebrated widely in Arcadia, featuring "unrestrained" masked dances by torchlight and animal sacrifice by means of random slashing that evoked the god's own rending and suffering at the hands of the Titans. 〔Madeleine Jost, "Mystery Cults in Arcadia," in ''Greek Mysteries: The Archaeology and Ritual of Ancient Greek Secret Cults'' (Routledge, 2003), pp. 144–164.〕 The ''orgia'' that explained the role of the Titans in Dionysos's dismemberment were said to have been composed by Onomacritus.〔Pausanias 8.37.5; Fritz Graf and Sarah Iles Johnston, ''Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets'' (Routledge, 2007), p. 70.〕 Greek art and literature, as well as some patristic texts, indicate that the ''orgia'' involved snake handling.〔Jacquelyn Collins-Clinton, ''A Late Antique Shrine of Liber Pater at Cosa'' (Brill, 1976), pp. 33–34. Among Church Fathers see Arnobius, ''Adversus Nationes'' 5.19; Clement of Alexandria, ''Protrepticus'' 2.12.2; Firmicus Maternus, ''De errore profanarum religionum'' 6.〕 ''Orgia'' may have been earlier manifestations of cult than the formal mysteries, as suggested by the violently ecstatic rites described in myth as celebrated by Attis in honor of Cybele and reflected in the willing self-castration of her priests the Galli in the historical period. The ''orgia'' of both Dionysian worship and the cult of Cybele aim at breaking down barriers between the celebrants and the divinity through a state of mystic exaltation:〔Giulia Sfameni Gasparro, ''Soteriology and Mystic Aspects in the Cult of Cybele and Attis'' (Brill, 1985), p. 53 and 11–19.〕 Initiates of the Orphic and Bacchic ''orgia'' practiced distinctive burial customs (see ''Totenpass'') expressive of their beliefs in an afterlife; for instance, it was forbidden for the dead to wear wool.〔According to Herodotus 2.81, as cited by Graf and Johnston, ''Ritual Texts'', p. 159.〕 Members of a group devoted to performing ''orgia'' are called ''orgeônes'', whose activities were regulated by law. The cult of the Thracian goddess Bendis was organized at Athens by her ''orgeônes'' as early as the Archaic period.〔Corinne Ondine Pache, "Barbarian Bond: Thracian Bendis among the Athenians," in ''Between Magic and Religion'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), p. 8.〕 The participation of women in ''orgia'', which in some manifestations was exclusive to women, sometimes led to prurient speculation and attempts to suppress the rites. In 186 BC, the Roman senate tried to ban Dionysian religion as subversive both morally and politically.〔Celia E. Schultz, ''Women's religious activity in the Roman Republic'' pp. 82–88.〕 Isidore of Seville says that the Latin equivalent of ''orgia'' was ''caerimoniae'' (English "ceremonies"), the arcane rites of ancient Roman religion preserved by the various colleges of priests.〔Isidore of Seville, ''Etymologiae'' 6.19.36.〕 ==See also== * Bacchanalia * Cult of Dionysus * Thiasos 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Orgia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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