Orphic Mysteries
The Thracians worshipped Ares, the god
of war; Sabazios, the
sky father god; and had
faith in the Sun, son
of the goddess Bendis,
the incarnation of perfection and immortality.
The most popular cults
were the Dionysian
mysteries, which surely
came to Greece from
Thrace, along with the
cult of Orpheus and the
Orphic mysteries.
Following Orpheus’ footsteps, I ascended to the
top of a mountain to the
ruins of an abandoned
place called Perperikon
in Southern Bulgaria.
It is a real city temple,
which can still be seen
in the stone altars that
were part of a temple
dedicated to the God of
wine and sexual ecstasy,
known by the Greeks as
Dionysus and Bacchus
by the Romans. It is
the most sacred and
Bacchus
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