How to pronounce“maenad”in English
a religious experience in which the worshippers' instincts were liberated from the bondage of social custom." The Romans called this the bacchanal, after their version of Dionysus, Bacchus.
The cultic rituals of Dionysus are performed by women called Maenads, who leave home, go into the woods and drink and dance and hunt and tear wild animals to pieces as a sacrifice.
Yeah, it's all beer pong and keg stands until the ladies start devouring the flesh of still living beasts.
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Definitions of “maenad”
A female follower of Dionysus (“the god of wine”), associated with intense revelling.
“VVild yuie) for it is dedicated to Bacchus & therefore it is ſayd that the Mænades (that is Bacchus franticke prieſtes) vſed in theyr ſacrifice to carry Thyrſos, vvhich vvere pointed ſtaues or Iauelins, vvrapped about vvith yuie.”
An excessively emotional or wild woman.
“Blanche Stroeve was in the cruel grip of appetite. Perhaps she hated Strickland still, but she hungered for him, and everything that had made up her life till then became of no account. She ceased to be a woman, complex, kind and petulant, considerate and thoughtless; she was a Maenad. She was desire.”