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"ecstatic revelations and frenzied dancing". The mythical female followers of Dionysus, including bacchants and thyiads as well as maenads, were said to have sought the "wild delirium" of possession by the god so they could "get out of themselves", which was called "ekstasis". The male counterparts of the Maenads were the Korybantes , armed and crested ecstatic dancers who worshipped the Phrygian goddess Cybele with drumming and dancing. They

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