... foundations created by these very rituals. Additional occurrences of animal sacrifice take place in the Dionysiac religion, which is centered on Dionysus "the god of vegetation, consists of the Bacchae (female worshippers of Dionysus), and Satyrs (the male counterparts). In mythology, however, both groups of followers appear slightly more than human. They worship Dionysus through crazed periods of ecstatic dancing ... the raw flesh of a sacrificial animal, a ritual believed to bring the worshippers closer to the god, as he was believed to be present inside the victim (Girard 119). In th...

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