Thalysia
Thalysia ( Greek Θαλύσια , after thallō ' to bloom') was a harvest festival in ancient Greece that was celebrated in honor of the goddess Demeter .
description
Its mention in Homer indicates the great age of the festival . In the Iliad it is a festival in honor of all gods, but the Oineus forgets the goddess Artemis during his sacrifice , who then lets the Calydonian boar devastate the land.
The third idyll of Theokrits takes place on the day of Thalysia on the island of Kos . The festival is dedicated to Demeter. She had her altar on the threshing floor on which grain was piled up for her; after the work in the fields was finished, the tools were put into this pile of grain. Next to it was a cult image of Demeter holding corn sheaves and poppies. Theocritus does not speak of a sacrifice, with him the goddess is honored with a feast to which guests are invited and at which the festival participants lie on freshly cut rushes and grapevine leaves.
Otherwise there are only a few reports that refer to the festival. Athenaios reports that the bread baked from the first grain was called Thalysion ( θαλύσιον ), Nonnos of Panopolis calls each first- child sacrifice Thalysia and uses the word as a term for a Demeter priestess.
reception
Derived from this , the vegetarian magazine founded by Eduard Baltzer was called Thalysia . Baltzer calls "Thalysianism" the natural way of life of vegetarians. After that, a number of vegetarian restaurants used the name. There was also a dress named after it in the reform clothing movement .
In the late 1920s, Paul Grams founded a publishing house in Leipzig called Thalysia and published, among other things, the Thalysia monthly books and a Thalysia handbook for health care .
literature
- Willi Göber : Thalysia. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VA, 1, Stuttgart 1934, Col. 1230 f.
- Martin Persson Nilsson : Greek festivals of religious importance excluding the Attic. Teubner, Leipzig 1906. Reprinted by Teubner, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-519-07254-8 . Pp. 330-332. ( Digitized version )
Web links
- Thalysĭa . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 19, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1909, p. 452 .
- Thalysĭa . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 17 . Altenburg 1863, p. 439 ( zeno.org ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homer Iliad 9,534.
- ↑ Theocrites Eidyllion 7.
- ↑ Nonnos von Panopolis Dionysiaka 47, 493.
- ↑ Nonnos of Panopolis Dionysiaka 12, 10; 25, 198.
- ↑ JA Gleizès: Thalysia or the salvation of humanity. (German by R. Springer) Berlinb 1872.
- ↑ Text of an advertisement from the Wiener Mode magazine , 1906 ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
