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Sabazius

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  • Charles Sprague Pearce: Religion
    religious symbolism and iconography
    / Pictorial

    For example, the hand of Sabazius, a Greek god sometimes identified with Dionysus (the god of wine), is portrayed as raised in blessing and encircled by a number of rather bizarre appendages. Also, representations of human limbs may be used as votive offerings for the cure of the part of…

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    For example, the hand of Sabazius, a Greek god sometimes identified with Dionysus (the god of wine), is portrayed as raised in blessing and encircled by a number of rather bizarre appendages. Also, representations of human limbs may be used as votive offerings for the cure of the part of…

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