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you

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in the ancient lands of phrygia and

persia

in india and in greece there were women

who danced with the grace and delicacy

of wild deer

and who were feared as much as the

murderous furies

these were the bakandis women who

worshipped a new god

young and handsome dionysus thousands

and thousands of years ago

when the gods still walked the earth

with mortals

and history was still mingled with

legend

dionysus wandered throughout the world

spreading the cult of his worship

at last he returned to the land of

boeitzia and to his birthplace

the city of thieves

but a terrible scourge afflicted that

part of greece

drought the earth was scorched

no longer refreshed by protecting clouds

and life-giving rains

flocks and herds perished

and thebes the capital founded by cadmus

and preserved by pentheus seemed marked

for destruction

by the gods

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it was surrounded by guards and by order

of agave

mother of king pentheus who was away

from thieves at the time

what little water remained was carried

by servants and slaves

into the cellars of the royal palace for

the use of the court

the common people of thieves were

allowed to collect

only a few drops

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and so it was in that far off time

so remote that it survives only in the

memory of poets

the events of this story had their

beginning

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i'm thirsty give me a drink

here

you're generous water belongs to the

thirsty

please forgive me for having had to ask

you but i have traveled such a long way

aren't you i hail from the orient

from far away fridger where the sun

rises

what is your name

i'll remember it here this is my gift to

thank you for your kindness

what is it the bitter liquor of the

grapes

wine sacred to the god of joy dionysus

dionysus no stranger i cannot accept it

and why

because i am destined to demeter this

very day i must go to the temple to make

her a presentation

if you fear to offend demeter with wine

sacred to another god

i will present it to anyone you choose

no one will ever want to accept it

don't you know king panthers prohibits

the recognition of dionysus

the stevens do not dare to pronounce his

name even one alone there

the blind tyreses he's my father

he alone in his great wisdom knows the

power of dionysus and doesn't fear

pentheus

take it then you who are his daughter it

yields joy to friends and folly to

enemies

and grants love to the one who has love

in his heart

thank you stranger

will you come to things thieves will

come to me

farewell little montauk farewell

with only one of these urns i could save

my milking cow tell it to the queen i'm

sure that for one of your milking cows

you're glad to give up her bath well

luckily pence will soon return sure the

minute he gets back you'll bring water

to your staple oh demons my sons

listen once more to the power of my

words

the power of words does not quench the

right it's let me listen

it is useless to rebel and your contempt

is futile

a light has filled the blindness of my

eyes

and that is why i taress theresa say to

you again

that the drought which destroys our

herds of cattle

and our crops is none other but a divine

scourge

now one alone one only of all the

deities of olympus has caused to be

angry with thee

thieves gave him birth and in the whole

of the world

only thieves refuses to render him

harder

and this is the reason for his

discontent

this is the cause of the horrible thirst

which now burns up the land of boeitzia

and we tiresias what must we do you must

sacrifice to the god dionysus

honor him with ritual of song and dance

for even though it is penthouse who may

be at fault

the whole of thieves will be punished

you speak well tiresias but then who

will protect us for the wrath of the

king

no one at all except your faith in the

power of the god

his eyes may be in darkness but his

vision penetrates where no other mortal

sight can ever see

perhaps but it is dangerous even to have

listened to him

i don't believe that we'll see when he

returns

here i am father i've succeeded in

getting you a little water

thank you my daughter go go into the

house there's someone waiting for it

go in you will see

what a great honor for me to receive the

future queen of thebes in my own house

for you i'll be a friend not a queen

come i have something i want to show you

what is it go open it

oh how marvelous for you you shall wear

it for the offering at the temple today

i wanted to weave it myself so that on

the most beautiful day of your life

could remember me thank you dear

what is the matter your eyes are not

happy

yet to be consecrated to the meat

as great an honor as it is to reign as a

queen

of course i know but why is it

neither my eyes nor yours are glad today

even though you're going to be the bride

of penteus

this has been established since my early

childhood and it's my destiny even if

tell me even if in my heart there exists

another life

a life far away from these dismal walls

of the court

a gay free life full of songs and dances

and love but it's only a dream

with the new moon the doors of the

palace will close behind me

and the ones of the temple will open to

take me in forever

as this too has long been established

and you will be the first in every

ceremony

and i will sit on the throne what better

destiny

it's true but i have to leave my father

and all my friends and worse

locked up you love him don't you

we both grew up together he's been like

a brother to me

i'm sad i won't see him again no one can

oppose the faith chosen by the gods

run along now and get ready the high

priest awaits you

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go

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oh

so

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oh

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let not a single glance till the coming

of the new moon presumed to profane your

face

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so that you may accept her in purity

among your other humble devotees

the sacred fire is going out

the prophecy

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there's no doubt about it the fate of

child the sybil foretold to us

on the day lakdama was born ismanto are

you sure

the signs are all too clear she will be

consecrated to demeter

said the sybil and at her offering

the sacred fire will go out thus

it has occurred finally

from certain rumors i have heard of late

do you mean that she already knows la

damo yes and wouldn't it be strange if

between them

there was born that love which according

to the prophecy be still

what do you suggest

it's within the power of a mere mortal

to change any woman he wishes what's

your conclusion

the conclusion lies with whoever has the

power say

that dumb

maybe clemency is not always a great

virtue

i didn't have to keep him alive up to

this day of course not

for to light the flame a spark is always

necessary

yet you need only do away with it and

there will be no fire

i see smother it out

at its source yes my queen but how is

this feasible

the fated child is sacred to demeter and

it is not they the gods

who decide the fates of the mortals

believe me it will be to meet her

who will rule the life of manto

well finished at last i'm good and the

work's over

it's over now go back and get another

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load

let's go everybody out don't waste time

go get em

let's get out come on oh keep moving

there

i was afraid you wouldn't come

but what is it why don't you look at me

i am promised to demeter i know other

than she can see my face

but i had something to tell you before

saying goodbye

that's why i've come here

take it it's yours but what's in it

wine the sacred wine of dionesis

wine and thebes how did you get it at

the fountain of visa a stranger

i gave him water and he offered it to me

in exchange what a strange odor

what does it taste like i don't know but

it must be the wine of witchcraft

the stranger said it gave joy to friends

and madness to enemies

and afterwards and afterwards

and afterwards it grants love

to one who has love in his heart

go on then why don't you drink it

it would be a sacrilege for me

look at it the color is as shiny as the

most precious stone

it seems almost alive it gives joy

love and more

mantle drink it with me

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the beginning of my heart is stronger i

feel it

it gives joy love too manto

now i must say farewell to you

farewell that's a meaningless word isn't

it

when we say farewell we often find each

other again

and if it's really farewell we never

know it

but this time it's true believe me no

it can't be true i don't want you to

leave me

and i don't want to go well then why

must we submit to a faith which we do

not wish

why create such great unhappiness tell

me what can i do

renounce the temple we'll be far from

here

in a single night we can reach distant

locris or walking toward the sun even

after

the consequences might be terrible but

how much more so to deny your own life

a new god will protect us who will judge

us too

yes tomorrow when the sun rises

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returned to thieves

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has been turned into a desert famine has

spread from the pokeys to the locris

from the mountains of laconia all the

way down to the gulf of corinth

one can hardly find a single crop that

has not been ravaged

pentheus even in thieves the situation

is perilous

the people are rebelling there might be

violence what wrong have i committed

they're saying that the drought is a

scourge sent by the gods to punish you

for still refusing to recognize dionysus

and offer himself

the rebels says nothing it only repeats

now out with his name who is it who

incites them tiresias

i'm positive he must be possessed to

sacrifice the dionysus

to a pretender exiled from thieves a

fraudulent usurper

who conquered his hordes of frenzied

barbarians

with inebriating wine and with orgies of

impure women

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when my beloved king was still alive and

was husband of the sister of your mother

he knew dionysus then very young and

took good care of him

and he believed in his divinity your

king i believe died young

which hardly demonstrates the excessive

favor of the god that may well be

pentheus

but in the famine which torments thebes

the people see only the anger of the

deities

to placate the souls and entreat once

more the favor of olympus

i propose a great sacrifice to demeter

goddess of the earth

and divine mother of crops with her and

her alone

risk the power to end the disaster which

plagues us

this then will be done

tell the people that pentheus their king

publicly invokes the favor of the gods

by sacrificing to demeter

go

mother i'm most happy to see you again

the high priest has asked for an

audience with you it would be well for

you to listen to him

i will

the people are discontented but it's

folly to give in to the populace

and it's for their affliction in their

perennial misery two forces only are to

blame

the gods who rule the sky and the powers

who rule the earth of course

but the gods are out of reach and

eternal while the powers of earth

remain but mortal son you well know the

siebens

the drought has exasperated them and the

prattling of teresius has done much to

excite them

and if the gods do not send rain of

course the fault must lie with the king

very well what is it you wish to suggest

to me i already proposed it in the

audience

a truly great sacrifice to demeter which

must prove to all and without question

you're still favored by divinity we must

avoid it all cost a result of the people

we must divert them we must return to

the customs of our forefathers

and to do that order a human sacrifice

and who would be the victim monto the

daughter of tyrese

no never and why not

we would also be rid of the father who

was your enemy if all i wanted was to

destroy tiresias i would have done so

but he's much too dear to the thebans

who are convinced he's in contact with

the gods

and their profit no it would be too

dangerous

after so much desert at last an oasis

dear say

welcome back before me always during my

difficult journeys to the ultimate

beauty of your

eyes for in going through the planes of

my realm i've remembered you often

i'm honored all of me dodged you on

but nothing makes you rejoice why is

that

you recoil from my hand no but don't

tell me it's your modesty

a modesty of women melts with love like

snow in the sun

not mine but why refuse my love

i was promised to you and i will keep my

vow

it's just

what i really want from you is a sun

an heir who might carry on the name of

my race

all the rest of it i leave to those

silly fools who follow the heart instead

of reason

but the king's return did not bring calm

to the people of thieves the populace

was disturbed by strange rumors

circulating in the city

woodsmen and shepherds down from the

mountains told stories of fantastic

creatures

beautiful and mysterious women who

appeared in the caves of mount citron

and performed miracles it was said that

they were worshipers of dionysus

that they had assembled from every

corner of the world

they had vowed to follow him everywhere

and do him honor

beautiful and graceful as they were in

their mysterious rights

they were cruel and implicable to the

enemies of their god

they were the bakanti and there they

were all at once you could see them

every one of them deeply immersed in

sleep exhausted

all of them so sweet so beautiful

that i found myself suddenly stopping to

spy on them

but then one of the bulls in a nearby

herd sent out a mighty bellow

i shouted and tried to capture it but at

that shout

the girls all woke from their sleep of

abandon and ran away

and ben go on you said you saw them

produce a miracle

it's true what was it one of them

her young head crowned with a flowering

you branch struck the earth

and when she did so a stream of water

sprang

another one hit the earth with a simple

rod and from it rose a fountain of wine

while in the meantime from their rich

staffs adorned with thick twining ivy

oozed a marvelous mellow honey it's

dionysus who has said i tell you tyrese

was right this is the god who was angry

at thebes

it's the fourth of king panthers who

refuses to honor him he's the guilty

wonderful i heard should die

on a dionysus king has to be made to

listen to us

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give me the order and i will disperse

the people with my men no

the thebans have great need of water and

sacrifice and i must do my best to

satisfy them will you sacrifice to

dionysus i intend for demeter to be so

honored

one god or another does not make such a

great difference when blood runs on the

altar and water in the houses

listen my son to my counsel sacrifice

mantle

only in that way can we preserve the

throne which is ours

but why your words apparently veil a

secret

it is so

you are dismissed

and now speak mother if there is a

motive which can justify the death of

manto

now is the time to reveal it

and from a virgin consecrated to demeter

will be born the new ruler of thebes

and it is from their union that your own

ruin will begin

what are you saying mother that oracle

was prophesied by a sybil

and it was at the birth of luck dumbo

it's useless to wait any longer it will

not rise this time he's got to give in

we will all go to him

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thank you

you know the truth now i am putting your

destiny back into your hand forever long

you alone must make up your mind

go proclaim throughout thieves that the

king wishes to address his people

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ah

i don't know whether i should still call

you by the name of even

because if you do bear that name i alone

pentheus must still be your king

and it doesn't appear to me just or

right for his loyal subjects to present

themselves to him

armed with sticks and filled with

rebellion

i know you're going through a trying

period

as trying and difficult a time as when

attica attacked and plundered boeitzia

and i pentheus saved you and won a

victory

and now once more i promise pentheus

will save you all

you're claiming that your gods are for

some reason much angered with your king

it is true i have sinned and here before

all of you i do confess it during the

games of this

past autumn given in honor of demeter

i did not sacrifice as much as i should

have

but i promise you i will make amends i

have given an order

to be carried out in great pump and

ceremony

for a solemn sacrifice to demeter of

something which is very dear to me

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or what can be closer to the heart of a

king than the life of one of his

subjects

thus to placate the goddess i have

decided to offer in sacrifice to demeter

the youngest of our virgins

and the name of the one so honored is

montoya

and now oath even you may go to your

homes in peace

because on the great day of the

sacrifice the bountiful goddess will

send us rain

and to prove here and now my devotion to

you i give you permission to run one and

all to the royal sellers

and help yourselves to all the water you

need

my son now the people are with you once

again

as long as they have water

down here

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what's going on

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hey what's happening the king has given

us water but why because tomorrow will

have rain get out of the way

that doesn't happen every day of the

week does it is that a human sacrifice

yeah and it's not a day too soon the

youngest and fairest of all the sacred

virgins the innocent daughter of tyrese

that's right manto

what's the matter with him

hey watch yourself

manto

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manto

you're too late they took her away last

night i couldn't warn her in time

i had come to warn her too but i was

late also but we can't let them kill her

we must try to save her life at any cost

don't despair

i will speak to the king in a few days i

will be the queen

he has to listen to me stop the

sacrifice

manta has not yet been consecrated to

the meter she's only been promised

you cannot have her killed monto knows

that it's a great honor indeed to be

sacrificed to the goddess

she surely did not send you here to beg

me for her life manto is at the temple

you know that well it is your own grief

then which makes you come to plead for

her

not only what else then a young man who

loves her is suffering more than

anyone else in the world and it is in

the name of this love that i ask you

pencils

or in a few days will be my husband to

save manto

what is the name of this young man

he's only a slave but noble in spirit

if mountain dies it will also be his

death what you're asking of me is no

longer in my power

i told the people and promised that

manto would be sacrificed and what the

king says is the law

and it's absolutely impossible for me to

change it but it is inhuman

and one of the gods they two are inhuman

and a king is more similar to a god than

to a man

dionysus i tyrethius

here humbly do you honor

on the ritual stone i have spilled

the blood of a tender goat for i have

none other to offer you

and you you dionesis who more than any

other gods

has always loved man's frail short life

i implore you not to let little monto

die

you a god born of mortal woman

who understands all our joys and all our

anxieties

have pity on your blind servants and old

dionysus give me a sign

to show me the way

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you are like yes and with you is dear

yes it is the divine dionysus who has

sent you here

i see it all in my mind's eye suddenly

the whole truth shines clearly

yes the thieves must turn

to dionysus

and the reigns at last will fall

if it should happen to rain before the

ceremony there would be no reason for a

sacrifice

what shall we do tyrese speak come close

to me

dear see

it is you the future queen who must

first do honor to dionysus the god

how in great secret

gather this very night the most

beautiful and noble female maidens

and light up with them the sacred mount

saturn

there at the entrance to the gather but

no thievin has ever dared to enter the

cave before

there in the dark cavern it is said that

the god himself

appears down there he is celebrated as a

god should be

with much song and death

you you must lead your companions and

the sacred dancers to dionysus

and with them you must dance until your

strength runs out

will it not be a sacrilege to dance for

dionysus

i am destined for the throne of thebes

i'm afraid

here it's the wine secreted dionysus

please drink it it will give you new

strength drink it dear see and forget

everything which oppresses you

drink it and be free

be yourself

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do

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so

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so

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who are you a stranger dionysus has sent

me

dionysus so he has heard us nothing

pleasant ever eludes the god

and beauty is forever pleasant to him

does he know why we invoked him most

definitely

because dionysus is in you and in every

creature who liberates itself

and breaks off the absurd limitations

which bind him tell me stranger will the

god help us

for this reason he has sent me return to

thieves have no more fear

i have faith in you

then go now and wait for the day with

confidence

dionysus the god will keep his promise

thank you stranger and goodbye you

mustn't say goodbye

before the sun has finished its course

toward the moon you will see me again

it will be your most happy reunion

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oh

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funky

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dionysus i pray that you perform a

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miracle

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oh

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watch people of thieves and take heed

it's the great goddess to meet her

preparing his promise to receive mantho

and sacrifice

and before your eyes shine her

benevolence the rain is upon us

not true it is a lie

it's not demeanor it's dionysus who has

called the clouds clouds heavy with rain

nothing is more repulsive to him than a

human sacrifice

and he has proved it even by the deep

sound of his voice

and not after human blood flows on the

stone

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malto for the people's welfare

arrest that arrogant stranger

no one will ever capture

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that's three months old

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so

nearly all of the young people of thebes

climbed the heights of the sacred mount

citron

the miracle that had saved manto and

brought rain to boeitzia

persuaded the thebans to celebrate the

right sacred to dionysus

among the crowd luck domo and manto were

radiant with joy

at being reunited they were unaware of

the strange destiny

guiding their footsteps

what happened this morning before the

eyes of all of thebes has made you lose

your entire authority

and your dignity as well what are you

waiting for to act

to the people of thieves the virgin

mantle was never mocked by sacrilege and

the stranger was the one who correctly

predicted the miracle

it would be a great mistake to persecute

them now we need to wait until the

people in their rebellion go against the

law

that will be the right moment then the

moment you await is upon us

a great number of the theban youths have

assembled on mount siddharan to

celebrate the forbidden bacchanal

cups overflowing with wine are

circulating among the women and they

have abandoned themselves to all manner

of orgies

but rendering homage to venus not

bacchus who was the leader of this orgy

it was the stranger he provided the wine

and profiting by his potency he incited

the youth in their maidens to defy their

purity

such conduct deeply offends the customs

of thieves

they have made a mockery of the law i

now hold them within my power

i order you to deploy your troops to the

citroen and i order the immediate arrest

of all those who worship a false god

capture the stranger and bring him here

to the palace to be stoned publicly

bitter indeed will be the aftertaste of

the origins he has brought

i love you lockdown i want to live at

your side for the rest of my life

so do i my mom i will never leave you

and will treasure our love to the end of

my days

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be jubilant youth of thebes you who have

come to worship dionysus

remember nothing pleases no more than

your happiness and your joy

and your exaltation

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and now we'll observe a moment of

religious silence

i will start the triumphal chant which

is sacred to dionysus

oh happy is he who delights in the gods

and their mysteries

may your life be happy and pure as you

all pray together

under the blessed aura while the hills

around us him

tobacco's you'll be cleansed and

purified exalted and rejoicing

and your hearts will be filled with

goodness as you render honor to dionysus

sing to the god

to the sound of the symbol cry to him a

voice

sing to thy nieces sing to thy neither

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so

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and spare her from darkness it was not

mere chance

he has preserved the girl's life because

it's his wish that this night should be

betrothed to lock

i know full down what's in your minds

marriage by one of demeter's virgins

is unspeakable it's a sacrilege

but learn now that the law which

dionysus would never want to violate

bears an exception made by your

forefathers a virgin is freed from her

vows if it's for the good of the state

if a king or an heir to the throne asks

for her hand in marriage

tonight the truth must be revealed

come

this man whom you believed to be a slave

low and insignificant

is the son of eno the sister of agave

of the valiant race of cadmus

and it was agave who plotting to

preserve the throne for penthus and his

future descendants

had the boy kidnapped in his infancy to

be brought up as a slave among slaves

thus hiding then i must be the one

legitimate pretender to the throne of

cadmus

and the future king of thieves

and now we'll celebrate the wedding with

the sacred rites of dionysus

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time seems to have stopped for me mantle

this magical moment knows no beginning

and no end it's true that love has power

to join the heavens and the earth

for in my heart i too feel as you do and

strangely free

what's

every one of happening

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come with us don't touch her come on

let's go

we've managed to capture all of them i'm

the stranger

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is

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so

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have they taken them all everyone

but you didn't do anything to save them

why why didn't you invoke dionysus

why didn't the god save them for god's

ways cannot possibly be understood by

mortals

what will become of mantle like dawn

what the fates have established for them

you've done everything you could to save

them

i was i was grief-stricken also for you

i know nothing is more generous than a

woman's heart

sister of agave yes

family

family who gave all her love to zeus

with whom she conceived her nieces

my girlfriend didn't want to believe in

that love the child was

called illegitimate and similar found

dishonor

and then death but zeus whose power is

infinite

fighting to prepare this injustice

he has done so he has allowed dionysus

to descend into shadowy hades

to bring out his mother and take her to

mount olympus

but before that he must learn to know

the grief and the love of mortals

for this their nieces has become a man

and only when he has cleared his

mother's memory and will have completed

all his work

on that day that hour of penance

dionysus will abandon his human aspect

and his human destiny

what a wonderful reward for simile

to find again through love that's what

you lost for the sake of love

i know but it is terrible for a mortal

to love a deity

in abyss of eternity parts them and the

void of the finite and the infinite is

quite immeasurable

don't ever forget it dearson

and now my dear they'll be wondering

about your absence

will i see you again only one more time

before the rise of the new moon

uh

so

here my friends is dearsie of helenan

who from tomorrow on will sit on the

throne beside me and will reign as your

queen

the heads and the representatives of all

the tribes of bowietsia

are gathered here to do your honor and

to present you with their gifts

i salute you dearestly may the future

bring you much happiness

the tribe of atamonte will bring to you

twenty of the softest bear skins ever

brought down from our mountain

and to pentheus your husband and our

king the ever invincible armor of cadmus

the founder of thied which we have

jealously kept in our custody till now

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i heard that you're looking for me

pinterest so i've saved you i'm in the

trouble of finding me

i find it undignified for any man who

loves liberty as much as i do

to be brought to you in chains your

arrogance will lead you nowhere

for there is nothing easier than to

enchain a lover of liberty

that is the habit of tyrants

as well as judges

i see from the way you were dressed you

hailed from the land of barbarians

however your costume doesn't seem to me

to be that of a priest

or certainly that of a warrior what is

it then that brought you to thieves

dionysus has brought me to thieves to

celebrate his rituals among you

and what are they tell me these rituals

they are not revealed to anyone profane

especially if the profaned one is a just

king who forbids such impure backinell

he who sees evil where there is none is

impure himself

you claim then that i am wrong when i

say these orgies we speak of are soaked

with wine

and that the women drunk with liquor

dance disrobed and abandoned themselves

without any restraint whatsoever

no you're not wrong but there is nothing

bad in that

in the holy ritual is born of great joy

sacred and divine

in freeing the senses you liberate the

spirit the enjoyment of liberty

that is the only happiness nature meant

for us which satisfies our god

then how is it they are held only in the

night these sacred honest rituals

the night is much sweeter and the

darkness divine

and a beautiful accomplice to the

corruption of women sin can also take

place in the daytime

you are almost able speaker stranger

what a pity your words say nothing

to the fool the words of a wise man seem

obscure you will pay dearly for your

insults and provocations

and you for your pride you impudent

barcanti

but you'll sing another tune when you

hear your punishment what harm can you

do me

in chains i will make you perish on the

cliffs of the citaren

a meal for the eagles and a prey of the

hyenas if i wish it my god will save me

and where is that god

where that i cannot see him right beside

me but you can never see him no

and why is that because in your foolish

pride the evil within you has made you

blind

you have offended me and with me you are

offending thieves

take him away

you know neither what you do know what

you are i am king pence a son of agave

in a q

a pin fierce how much you will have to

regret

away take him out of here and chain him

securely to the rock of the eagles on

mount sidderran

so that in staring at the sun he may be

blinded forever and rot in darkness in

imprisoning me

you're offending the god take him away i

say

do not shed blood on our wedding day

i am not killing him only putting him in

chains

and i will show you darcy that i know

how to be generous

pay attention so that in thieves the

great rejoicing for my wedding the

unmarred

i order that every single young thievin

captured on mount siddharan

be now put at liberty

mine is not only clemency it is justice

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attention young stevens the clemency of

king pentheus is great

he has given you your freedom open up

not you why not no

where are you taking it let go of me man

let me go i tell you

leave her alone she hasn't done anything

what more do you want from her you'll

find out from the king

in there

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you may go but pinterest get out i tell

you

hail cousin

you may sit down now since i've learned

that you're my equal you may act as such

a need not stand

your kindness does not deceive me what

do you want

i have come here to give you help when a

powerful man offers to help one that's

weaker

there's no doubt he wants to get

something out of it it is often as you

say

but this time you are quite wrong well

then what is it that this brought you

here

your cruelty and delight in having the

power to torment others

if i were as cruel as you say i am then

you wouldn't be here

for many years by now you would have

been buried in the tomb with your

ancestors

but let that pass you well know the

punishment we have reserved for a man

who profanes a sacred virgin

it is to be drawn and courted alive i

know it

and i will be able to face it but i have

no desire

for you to suffer a servant will fetch

you a cup of hemlock poison

that way you will have a much easier

death i thank you

and in order to make your last night on

this earth a more pleasant one

i have commanded that your spouse be

brought to you here in prison

and then will she be saved if she wishes

it

farewell my cousin when we see each

other again

we will no longer suffer from any

earthly ills

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oh

they will soon be in slumber

you see actin in a public punishment

before the populace

the condemn speaks in his own defense

inventing the most absurd lies and

stories

whereas a suicide is the most undeniable

confession

of the guilt of a prisoner

this is why i have called you here i

want you to know

who they have imprisoned with my

daughter i thank you

and i swear by all the gods that the

armor of cadmus will never belong to

penteus

what do you do my men and i will fight

and bring them to loch damo

our people's true son and the real king

of thebes

ah too many soldiers stand guard at the

dungeons

there may be only 30 of us from the

tribe of atomante but every one of us is

worth 10 of those soldiers

before night we will have freedom both

oh let her pass what are you doing here

i want to speak to the prisoner i will

go with you

no but you know very well it's not

possible

i tomorrow i will be your queen

remember that

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stranger i do not know who you are

but it is clear that dionysus your god

is your friend

you may be sure of that and i pray you

i beseech you to invoke him to come and

pray you

why do you wish for a stranger to flee

from the law of your people i

i do not want you to die i am ready to

do anything to save you from this

horrible end

but why do you see do not torment me

do not ask me to explain that which is

already clear to you

oh say it if you want my safety

i love you i love you with all my heart

and soul

when you first appeared to me i knew you

would be the man of my destiny

how long i've wanted to hear these words

at last

love meant for a man what do you mean

dionysus has known the grief of mortals

but now

because of you he knows of love without

love

without the power that gives love i

would never have been able to achieve

the ultimate miracle

you he would another call of diamies

you see the man within me lives the god

does that frighten you when i'm near you

i know no fear

except that of losing you you're

immortal

and although my entire life be just an

instant of the

immense time that you possess i offer it

to you

do you see are you prepared to declare

before the world that you worship

dionysus

that you are consecrated to him and that

you will follow him as a bacanti

yes i am ready to do that

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we'll be together in death for all

eternity

since life would not unite us no

i won't let you knock down i must follow

you no matter what you do or say even if

you use force to stop me

[Music]

oh my love then i will drink the potion

before you

and open for you myself the gates of

darkness

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mcdonald you are free to go and your

wife along with you

who are you poligrity the chief of the

tribe that was your fathers

these warriors are your own people and

stand ready to die for you we recognize

you as our prince and sovereign lord of

thieves do you have a plan

yes to take you with us to our mountain

pentheus the infantry and the sacred

guard are ready to move how many

warriors does polygamys have with him no

more than 30. what role have they taken

they're fleeing toward mount siddharan

the cavern where the stranger is hidden

with darcy

we'll wipe out his men in a single blow

long before the new moon has risen many

lives will have drowned in the bloody

river of history

go now await my arrival at the head of

the army

so

is

is

is

me

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but the battle between the mountaineers

of poligrades and the heavily armored

infantry of thebes

was heroic and tragic a magnificent

sacrifice

the thirty men from the tribe of

adamantius slowly retreated to the

innermost reaches of citaron

defending the caves they fought to the

death with the ranks of steven soldiers

as they had promised their chieftain for

every one of them who fell

ten thievin soldiers paid with their

lives until at last

the whole battlefield was a mass of

lifeless bodies

the guards of the invincible king

pentheus had victory within their grasp

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oh

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uh

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now pray for help to your god dionysius

to the cavern

o zeus my divine father i invoke you

and you women of my following bacardi's

raise up your thirsties

climb the joyous symbols of fridger that

you may defeat the legion of pencils

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so

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enter into yourself again

it is your king who orders it i'm no

longer a dear friend

i no longer know you the god commands me

out of my way then and go quickly being

a woman could never save you from the

wrath of pantheon much greater the rage

that you will encounter dear save

this is the day you were destined to

join your life with mine my life belongs

to the god

and yours it's already veiled in

darkness

it is time follow me the guards will

date

infantry you may finish the carnage

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what

let's go run for your lives

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go

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forward soldiers

[Laughter]

um

for the last time render homage to

dionysus

as long as i hold a sword i'll never be

intimidated

surrender for your only a man i am a

king

and i will fight like a king the gods

see very little difference between a

king and a slave

i swear before the heavens that i stand

ready to engage in combat with you

that's not possible for i am dying i'm

still prepared to fight you

no another is eager to bring justice

back to thieves

and he wears the invincible armor of

cadmus

like darma

i will never retreat before my fate

on your guard locked almost it is not

yet written that pentheus is vanquished

huh

uh

and now lock domino it's either me

or you

[Music]

the fates have decreed it

[Music]

look at me now see how a king of thieves

meets death

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i need this

my human journey comes to an end

the vast fields of legion of phrygia the

lands of faraway persia

cities of barbarians and greeks

all of that now

i've learned the heartaches and the love

of mortals

now i must be gone do not leave me

i must finish the work i've come to do

i will descend into hades and release my

mother from the eternal shadows

and you will not return

the man in me is dead there's nothing

left after god

stay remain then but why

to watch you die and after you to have

to see others vanish

other young faces to watch forever the

infinite stream of lives go by before my

eyes interminably

no it's too horrible

i am immortal dear say remember that

and on olympus i want to forget about

earth

and i want to forget the power of human

passion

give me dialysis the necessary strength

so that i can endure this being you

dear sir will lead the bacanti's you

alone will guide their legions on earth

and you will proclaim to all who live

the cradle of dionysus

that true beauty is goodness and that

beauty

knows no death

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infinite and mysterious are the ways of

the gods

and the will of heaven can never be

foretold

while hope was still alive there was no

help

and only when all hope was lost did the

will of the god

when least expected reverse the will of

mortals

and this is the epilogue of all that has

gone before

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you