Bacchanalian cult

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The Bacchanalian cult in the medieval Western Europe[edit | edit source]

'Classical Antiquity', the Dionysian bacchanalian cult was widespread in Western Europe not in 'deep antiquity', but in the XIII-XVI cc. It was one of the forms of the Royal Christianity. Ceremonial prostitution was an integral part of Western Christian liturgy. Another example is the cult of love in some Indian temples on the Hindustan peninsula.

The necessity to restrain the orgiastic cult inspired the establishment of the Imperial Inquisition and the enactment of rigorous reforms both in the church and social life of Europe in the XV-XVI cc. In the Eastern Orthodox Church and, in particular, in Russia, bacchanalian practices have never proliferated. That is why there was no Inquisition in the Orthodox Church. It was due to the pressure of the negative implications of the bacchanalian religious ceremonies that the Western Church was compelled to ban the Dionysian orgies and to change over to a more moderate form of the cult [1v], [2v1], ch.1.

The famous descriptions of the 'diabolical Sabbaths' in Western Europe tell us about the same Christian 'agape'-Bacchanalias, but already declared by the reformers of the Western Church to be the 'work of the devil'. One of the main characteristics of the agape-Sabbaths, as the Scaligerian history tells us, were the orgiastic Bacchanalia. Naturally, the new Western 'Renovated Church' put the onus for the agape-Bacchanalia on the 'devil' in order to smother any recollections among the congregation of their quite recent bacchic-Christian past. It was ruthlessly cut off and accredited to a 'different religion'. And under a term 'classical antiquity' banished it to the deep past.

A XIX century scientist Champfleury wrote: 'Time after time when I explored the old cathedrals in an attempt to uncover the mysterious truth behind their beguiling indecent ornamentation, all of my explanations seemed to me to be a commentary on a book written in some language which was entirely foreign to me... What is one to think, for example, of a strange sculpture placed in a shadow of a column of a subterranean hall in a Mediaeval Cathedral in Bourges?' Quoted according to [544], v.5, p.661. The human buttocks in an indecent pose and analogous imagery are being depicted [2v1], ch.1.

All such imagery and sculptures are not the mockery of the church, but have the same purely invitational meaning as an image of the jugs of beer spewing froth above the doors of the German beerhouses. Of course, all of this meant something only prior to the unfolding repressions of the new evangelical church and Imperial Inquisition of the XV-XVI cc. against the Western Christian Bacchanalian cult.

In a close connection with the Christian pornographic imagery are also the analogous 'ancient' monuments, for example, in 'ancient' Pompeii. However, falsely perceived 'coyness' prevents the scientific community from studying these most interesting materials.

V.Klassovsky tells us about the excavations in Pompeii: 'Those of the paintings which represent some acutely erotic and indecorous scenes so loved by the ancients, are kept locked... in the house of the loose women... SOMEONE DURING THE NIGHT SCRAPED OFF THE INDECOROUS FRESCOES WITH A KNIFE ... Lately all the Pompeii paintings and sculptures which are not compatible with the modern notions of decency, are being kept in the SECRET DEPARTMENT of the Bourbon museum, where only those, who present a special permit from the top authorities, are allowed access. To obtain such a permit in a lawful manner is not easy'[389], p.75-76.

In Pompeii some houses were discovered where above the entrances stone phalluses were attached. The connection between a phallus and the Christian cult can be seen not only in the Western-European temples. 'In Hierapolis there were carved out of granite phalluses of an enormous size, 180 feet high and higher; they were placed in the threshold of a temple [389], p.122. V. Klassovsky naively thought that these enormous phalluses served as a 'moral instruction' to 'those who were praying' (?) [389], p.122. But most likely it was a conventional symbol, like a signboard. Like the analogous stone phallic depictions of Indian Shiva Lingam murti [2v1].

Let us go back to the eruption of Vesuvius which destroyed Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum. Their destruction in the XVI or even in the XVII century (year 1631) reflected in the Old Testament as the downfall of Sodom and Gomorrah. In the Bible this is described as the punishment of the inhabitants of those cities for their lecherous sexual behavior. So what do we see in the excavated Pompeii? Take a walk down the streets of Pompeii. You will see brothels, many indecent frescos with graphic scenes of sexual nature. In this part of the city in the XV-XVI cc. there were organized mass orgies. The authors of the Old Testament, more chaste Christians, were outraged by this debauchery, which reflected in their account of the ruin of Sodom (Stabiae) and Gomorrah (Herculaneum).

Today it is considered that practically all the Mediaeval Roman Christian churches are built allegedly 'on top of the ruins of the pagan temples' [2v], ch.1. Where these 'preceding ancient monuments' were for some reason approximately of the same purpose and even having the same name as the Christian temples [196]. For example, St. Dionysius Church was built allegedly in place of the 'ancient pagan temple of Dionysus, etc. The picture is clear. Having declared its recent bacchanalian past 'unsound', - under the pressure of some or other external factors, - the Eastern Christian Church having transgressed to the reformist phase of the XV-XVI cc. simply RENAMED its pagan-bacchanal temples and announced the former Christian-Bacchanal gods to be the new Evangelical Saints. Sometimes even preserving their names. And the congregation got used to them.