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How did Dionysus punish the daughters of King Minius who did not want to participate in the Bacchic processions?

Wherever Dionysus appeared, he established his cult. The procession of Dionysus, which was of an ecstatic nature, was attended by satyrs and maenads (Bacchantes), with thyrsus (wands) entwined with ivy. Girded with snakes, they crushed everything in their path.

Seized with sacred madness, the maenads praised Dionysus, beat tympanums, reveled in the blood of torn wild animals, carved honey and milk from the ground with their thyrses, uprooted trees and carried away crowds of women and men. Dionysus freed people from worldly concerns, removed from them the fetters of measured life.

He sent madness on those who resisted him and punished them terribly. One example of the revenge of Dionysus was the three daughters of the Orchomenian king Minius, whose names were Alkifoya, Arsippa and Leucippe. They refused to participate in the Bacchic processions and the only women of Orchomenus remained at home, continuing to spin and do other household chores.

Dionysus himself appeared to them in the guise of a girl, trying to convince them to join the maenads, but this suggestion of the sister was met with ridicule. Hearing the refusal, Dionysus turned first into a lion, then into a bull and a panther, and deprived the sisters of reason. In a fit of madness, they tore Hippasus, the son of Leucippe, mistaking him for a deer.

According to another version, the distraught sisters drew lots to decide which of them should offer sacrifice to Dionysus. The lot fell to Leucippe, and the sisters, tearing Hippasus to pieces, devoured him, after which they began to frantically rush through the mountains until Hermes turned them into birds (some say that Dionysus turned them into bats).

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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