Английская Википедия:Agrionia

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Agrionia was an ancient Greek religious festival in honor of Dionysus Agrionius. It was celebrated annually, especially at Orchomenus in Boeotia.Шаблон:Sfn

According to Plutarch, agrionia was celebrated at night with only women accompanied by the priests of Dionysus, who often wore black garments.Шаблон:Citation needed Women pretended to search for Dionysos and then declared that he has fled to the Muses and hidden there.Шаблон:Sfn After that they feasted and begun to present and solve riddles.Шаблон:Citation needed

According to legend, the Minyades or Шаблон:Proper name (Шаблон:Lang), the daughters of king Minyas of Orchomenus, who had despised the Dionysian rites, were seized with a desire to eat human flesh of one of their children.Шаблон:Sfn They cast lots to decide which of their children they would eat and selected Hippasus, son of Leucippe.Шаблон:Citation needed

Plutarch also explains that the festival included a human sacrifice. At this festival it was originally the custom for the priest of the god to pursue a woman of the Minyan family with a drawn sword and kill her.[1] This practice was later discontinued after the occurrence of bad omens.Шаблон:Citation needed

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  1. Шаблон:Harvnb cites Plutarch, Quaest. Rom. 102, Quaest. Graecae 38.