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The typical concert is an orgiastic rite of communion between the public and celebrity.
Festivals held in his honor often resulted in human sacrifices and orgiastic rites.
Freyja's worshippers involved orgiastic rites which horrified and outraged the Christians.
He considers Tantric sexuality, chastity as a means of transforming the sexual drive into higher forms, and pagan orgiastic rites, among others.
As the central deity of fertility and possibly orgiastic rites Min became identified by the Greeks with the god Pan.
The orgiastic rites will climax with Buckner meeting a hideous fate at the hands of Saul Stark.
For all its eye-popping scenes of those nasty Satanists' orgiastic rites, the plot doesn't bear close scrutiny, depending as it does on coincidence and sheer contrivance.
Dionysus or Dionysos A Greek deity, originally of Thracian origin and having bloodily orgiastic rites.
Close by to the city were the renowned groves of Daphne and a sanctuary dedicated to Apollo, where orgiastic rites were celebrated in the name of religion.
But this Eden also has its darker side in the mysterious Taboo Groves, shady religious precincts where Tommo suspects that cannibalism and orgiastic rites are practiced.
More devastating yet, Spender knows that beneath the surface glitz and fleshy opulence of the Azure Coast lie older traditions of Greek orgiastic rites.
However, he'd begin celebrating success with that famous bacchanal, the orchestra en forte, hot orgiastic rites, these being an appropriate accompaniment for what would be, in the end, a blood sacrifice.
Not that Forrester had anything against the orgiastic rites indulged in by the Dionysians, the Panites, the Apollones or even the worst and wildest of them all, the Venerans.
This Great Vow becomes the archetypical basis of the ascetic sect of the Kapalikas or Mahavratins, who are equally noted for their indulgence in the orgiastic rites of Tantric character.
Once Montreal's most charming enfant terrible, the choreographer and dancer Marie Chouinard has brought back her marvelous menagerie of mythic beasts and orgiastic rites in a 20-year retrospective of her solos.
Faunlike in flat angular silhouettes and sporting either Mohawk hair crests or piled-up hair, the dancers hark back to the mythic beasts and orgiastic rites that Ms. Chouinard has brought to New York for nearly 25 years.
The Christians of Benevento would have connected these frenzied rites with their already-existing beliefs about witches: in their eyes the women and the warriors were witches, the goat was the incarnation of the Devil, and the cries were orgiastic rites.
Originally, in effect, the potential wickedness of these women was not in the context of a religious sense; Christianity depicted them as women who had made a pact with the Devil, and as a sort of opposite to the Madonna, dedicated to orgiastic rites and bearers of infertility.