How To Use Thyrsus In A Sentence
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The thyrsus was a long staff, carried by Bacchus, and by the Satyrs and Bacchanalians engaged in the worship of the God of the grape.
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII
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Satyrs often carry the thyrsus: the rod of Dionysus tipped with a pine cone.
Pan and Satyrs
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Theban blood; with no wild waving of the thyrsus, clad in fawnskin thou dancest, but with chariots and bitted steeds wheelest thy charger strong of hoof.
The Phoenissae
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Theban blood; with no wild waving of the thyrsus, clad in fawnskin thou dancest, but with chariots and bitted steeds wheelest thy charger strong of hoof.
The Phoenissae
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Neither celebration had anything in common with the wild orgies of the Bacchae, but women employed maenadic ritual equipment like the thyrsus and crowns of ivy in polis festivals.
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His symbols are the phallus, the thyrsus, and the bull.
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The heaven in this poem is so far from being the incorporeal - the spiritual heaven of orthodox Christianity that you have an image of an actual orgy, the festal orgy raging under the thyrsus .
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Bacchus being carried by a satyr brandishing a thyrsus, and a torch-bearing bacchante.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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He is dressed a maenad, with a long linen dress covered by a fawnskin, a thyrsus in his hand, a long blond wing bound with a ribbon on his head.
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As she worshipped the god she typically held a thyrsus, a giant fennel staff topped with a pinecone.
The Spartacus War
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The Dionysian thyrsus, like the later withche's wand, was willow.
Helen of Troy
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Hath strook with pointed thyrsus through my heart;
On the Nature of Things
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Primal Wild: A Supernal Realm where the Ruling Arcana are Life and Spirit. Mages who walk the Thyrsus Path claim a Watchtower in this realm.
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For though the ironshod dart would draw no blood from them, they with the thyrsus, which they hurled, caused many a wound and put their foes to utter rout, women chasing men, by some god's intervention.
The Bacchantes
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A thyrsus (thyrsos) was a sacred implement at religious rituals and festivals.
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He is often to be found on this blog, either riding the Behemouth with a cowboy whoop or following behind it on foot, having set it off on a rampage with a swipe of his sacred thyrsus across its arse.
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