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• Thyrsus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  In Greek mythology, a thyrsus (thyrsos) was a staff of giant fennel (Ferula communis) covered with ivy vines and leaves, sometimes wound with taeniae and always topped with a pine ...

• thyrsus (Greek religion) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

  Britannica online encyclopedia article on thyrsus (Greek religion), in Greek religion, staff carried by Dionysus, the wine god, and his votaries (Bacchae, Maenads). In early Greek ...

• thyrsus - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about thyrsus

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