Purificación y sacrificio. El orfismo y su herencia dionisiaca-apolínea

Abstract

The quest for the divine in humankind led the orphics to gather around the form of Dionysus. However, this cult was reformed from an Apollonian point of view, which allowed believers to eliminate the bacchic rituals and the particular sanguinary sacrifices demanded by such divinity. These changes can be explained, as shown in this article, by the concept of purity that Orpheus’ followers had.