The Medieval Crusades: Actually Fought Over Dionysean Worship
Beginning of paper
Although it is a popular notion that the crusades of the Eleventh
through Thirteenth Century Europe were launched to spread Christianity, it
is a seldom realized fact that they were actually launched to spread the
worship of the Greek God Dionysus. While many fundamentalist radicals and
even some ....
Middle of paper
.... Church leaders of the day destroyed all written account of who
initiated the ten Crusades and what really occurred in the course of these
religious conquests,the true story of what happened survives to this
day.High in the mountainous terrain of Northern Turkey exists a tribe of
dedicated monks who,with their female counterparts,still engage in the
rituals of Dionysean worship,just as they have for centuries in their
mountaintop isolation. These are the chosen few who engage in the festivals ....
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