The Medieval Crusades: Launched to Spread Worship of Dionysus :: European Europe History

The Medieval Crusades Launched to Spread Worship of Dionysus Although it is a popular notion that the crusades of the El steadyththrough Thirteenth Century europium were launched to beam Christianity, itis a seldom realized fact that they were actu all in ally launched to spread theworship of the Greek God Dionysus. While many fundamentalist radicals andeven some historians who ought to know better will dispute this,itis,nevertheless,true. During the Middle Ages in Europe,there were a series of ten spiritualcrusades launched over a detail of three centuries.It is commonly believedthat these were organized and carried out by Christian spectral leaders tounite more territory under the red and white-hot flag of their cherishedreligion. The fact that accounts of the Crusades were recorded as they arein the history books is due to the overwhelming influence exerted byoverzealous ghostlike leaders on historians of the day.It is an unfortunatefact that little remains of the his torical representations of what actuallyhappened. While the Church leaders of the day destroyed all written account of whoinitiated the ten Crusades and what really occurred in the course of these ghostlike conquests,the true story of what happened survives to thisday.High in the mountainous terrain of Northern Turkey exists a tribe ofdedicated monks who,with their female counterparts,still engage in therituals of Dionysean worship,just as they put up for centuries in theirmountaintop isolation. These are the chosen hardly a(prenominal) who engage in the festivalsof wild drinking and the shared group enjoyment of their femalemembers characterizing their worship of this fun-loving God.It is to thesefew that practice not the self-denial of the Christian Church,but ratherthe indulgent,free-spirited way of the Dionysean pursuance that the truestory of the Crusades is known. While the historical accounts of the participants and the motives behindthe Crusades are inaccurate,they do correctly identify the routes taken bythe Crusaders.Their objective was to come up through Europe,eventuallyarriving in Turkey,staging festival after festival a presbyopic their way,in much(prenominal)the same manner as the original followers of Dionysus did. Afterthat,however,they mean to return through what is now the SovietRepublics,so as to avoid wrathful festival-goers recovering from the illeffects of excessive alcohol consumption and conglomerate social diseasescontracted during the festivities.After the tenth Crusade,after numerousmilitary encounters with opposing religious groups occupying variousterritories,they had arrived in Turkey. There,a tremendous celebration andpublic orgy was held,as this would be their final destination beforereturning home. Unfortunately,however,the group lingered too long and wasoverrun by unruly,hung-over citizens.The Dionysean companys chariots andwagons were burned,and they were forced to flee into the mountains of