#ancient ritual

• Female adorant — A female representation in sculpture, painting, or relief, captured in a ritualistic attitude of verification, prayer, or worship before an altar or divinity. As an adjective, the term describes a silhouette, manifestation, or posture characteristic of a woman rendering a mystical cult or sacred homage.
• Attis — A Phrygian deity of vegetation, rebirth of nature, and consort of the mother goddess Cybele, famous in mythology for his tragic death and structural transformation into a pine tree. His mystery cult, later adopted into the Roman Empire, celebrated the annual cycle of death and resurrection through orgiastic rituals and initiation ceremonies deeply linked to earth regeneration.
• Bacchante — A woman who belonged to the mystical retinue of the god Bacchus (Dionysus) and participated in his ritual festivals, seized by an ecstatic delirium and sacred frenzy. In a figurative and literary sense, the term describes a woman with a behavior of exuberant, passionate, or uninhibited sensuality, who lives her emotions with a wild intensity, reminiscent of the nymphs of classical antiquity.