{"id":256306,"date":"2018-02-18T13:03:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T18:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=256306"},"modified":"2021-04-15T19:53:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T23:53:15","slug":"penis-de-milo-phallic-parade-honors-ancient-greek-god-of-fertility-and-wine-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/penis-de-milo-phallic-parade-honors-ancient-greek-god-of-fertility-and-wine-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Penis de Milo? Phallic parade honors ancient Greek god of fertility and wine making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>The pre-Christian religions were much healthier both mentally and physically. Celebrating sexuality is infinitely better than celebrating the bloody death of a crucified man.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Revellers brought the winter festival season to a close in Athens with a penis-themed celebration of Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and fertility.<\/p>\n<p>Greek culture has presented the world many gifts, from democracy to sculptures like the Venus de Milo. Now witness the unusual and raucous party for a god you may never have heard of &#8211; Dionysus.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of festival goers donned fake penises and masks in honor of the deity, who in Greek mythology is said to have been the product of Zeus\u2019 relationship with a mortal woman.<\/p>\n<p>The yearly festival usually involves lashings of wine, dancing, as well as theatrical plays in the Greek capital.<\/p>\n<p>Footage of the unusual event reveals how revellers enjoying the night out paraded through the historical center of Athens chanting and carrying large phallic objects.<\/p>\n<p>The parade took place near Monastiraki train station before travelling up the Hill of the Muses, where the famous Acropolis, as well as the former prison of Socrates, is located.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/419147-greek-dionysus-penis-parade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/419147-greek-dionysus-penis-parade\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: The pre-Christian religions were much healthier both mentally and physically. Celebrating sexuality is infinitely better than celebrating the bloody death of a crucified man. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":327524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}