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Adonis and the Adonia Festival

KG

Kassia Glisson

Transcript

THE GARDENS OF ADONIS

RITUAL

* Quickly growing (and dying) plants, such as lettuce, barley, etc., planted on rooftops

* Tossed into the sea after eight days

ADONIA

DAY ONE

* women spend day lamenting; sobbing; praying for the resurrection of Adonis

* plant the gardens of Adonis

* imitating Aphrodite's sadness

DAY TWO

* joyful merriment and feasting

* celebrates Adonis returning to life

  • No specific start date; began to appear in literature around 420 BCE

  • Celebrated solely by women

  • Two days

* Day 1- spent in mourning

* Day 2- celebration

  • Festival fell at height of summer in Attica

* Was occurring when Athens fell at Syracuse

ADONIS' LIFE...

...AND INEVITABLE DEATH

  • Killed by a wild boar, sent by Persephone, in a field of lettuce

  • Ares had grown jealous; some say he took the form of the boar

  • Aphrodite was inconsolable

  • Zeus resurrected Adonis; split time with Aphrodite and in the underworld
  • Adonis placed under care of Persephone; both she and Aphrodite loved him

  • Zeus intervened; split time 4/4/4 (*changing seasons)

  • Aphrodite dissatisfied; seduced Adonis

AFTER DEATH

  • Tied to the idea of Resurrection
  • Deified
  • Became god of vegetation

Tale of Adonis' Birth

  • Mother, Myrrah (or Smyrna), said to be more beautiful than Aphrodite

  • Curse of Aphrodite/Incest

  • Myrrah ran away from home

  • Aphrodite experiences guilt
  • Myrrh tree was still "pregnant"

(*spice of the myrrh tree was

used as an aphrodisiac)

  • Adonis born from the bark

  • So beautiful that Aphrodite placed him in a closed chest

ADONIS

Adonis and the Adonia Festival

  • Life-death-rebirth figure

  • Lover of Aphrodite

  • Promiscuous but incredibly

handsome

  • Born mortal and later deified

THE RITUAL OF ADONIS:

THE ADONIA FESTIVAL

REFERENCES

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Adonis

http://www.paleothea.com/Myths/Adonis.html

http://www.in2greece.com/english/historymyth/mythology/names/adonis.htm

RELIGIOUS MEANING

BY KASSIA GLISSON

AND JOSE DE SARIO

  • Festival had a relatively well-defined position in the Greek religious system

  • Cult of Adonis mentioned by another name in the Book of Ezekiel, under the name Tammuz

  • In ancient Greece, it gave women the exclusive opportunity to practice some form of worship

  • Celebrates deification of mortals who had been killed by gods

  • Great expression of hope and meaning in the ancient religion of Hellenismos
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