Did you perhaps mean one of these? Bauhinia, Boronia
Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An ancient Attic festival in honor of Zeus, more commonly called Diipolia (which see).
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“This they appear to have done in the Athenian sacrifice known as the murder of the OX (bouphonia).”
Chapter 49. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals. § 1. Dionysus, the Goat and the Bull
“This they appear to have done in the Athenian sacrifice known as "the murder of the OX" (bouphonia).”
“This they appear to have done in the Athenian sacrifice known as "the murder of the OX" (_bouphonia_).”
“The resurrection of Dionysus, related in his myth, may have been enacted in his rites by stuffing and setting up the slain ox, as was done at the Athenian _bouphonia.”
“This they appear to have done in the Athenian sacrifice known as “the murder of the OX” (bouphonia).”
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The Other Side of Silence
A sound garden.
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. --Walt Whitmantin cry, chark, gride, scroop, crepitation, stridulation, swazzle, death-ruckle, cronk, rumble, borborygmus, crowling and 165 more...
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