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Dionysus and Christ: Good Friday in Athens in the 1950s

Dionysus and Christ: Good Friday in Athens in the 1950s

Litani in front of Agios Dionysios at Scova, Athens, in the 1950s.

In Athens in 1950, Mr Manos Hadjidakis Younger starts Mini Commander In his “communion” it seems that the beginning will be Holy Week. “Strange,” Menis Komantaris comments many years later in “The Planodio Trumpeter” (Kedros, 1989). “Those whom I had never before heard speak of aunts, many of whom even expressed their disdain for the religious teachings that families used to send us, they themselves, as soon as Holy Week came, began to fanatically go to church. (…) on Maundy Thursday and Friday Covenant, the Metochi group visited the Holy Sepulcher in Plaka.

The group’s names cause some confusion today: “Apart from Hadjidakis, the congregation consisted of Tsar, Argyrakis, Morales, Ielitis and Koundouros, in whose house on Heraclitou Street we listened again to the ‘Carmina Burana’ ».

Let us follow the commander’s wonderful account: “Everyone reverently listened to the bridegroom’s procession, singing praises every time Epitaphius’ procession stopped at a crossroads to give the same redemption to the young.”

The leader sees it gatsu(…) Holy Week was a performance, not of hypocrisy and piety, as we had been taught until then, but a ritual in which Dionysus and Christ participated in Tournament.The tour, modest through the still unlit streets of Plaka, took place without the tourists and the barbaric voices.(…) After the circumnavigation, the procession descended into Bakaliarakia, a cave in Kidathinion, where it snacked on cod, garlic, pickled octopus and olives , all fasting … (…) and from Bacaliarakia, the procession, through the steam of wine cured by Dionysus to Christ, had Hadrian unwrapped, and entered the Philhellenon, following a course towards Syntagma which was modestly lit by lanterns in a row like a county square, with The old mansion and the unknown soldier in the background. We ended up at “Gianaki”, the eponymous coffee shop at the time, a corner of Bucharest and the university. (…) I was returning home to my parents, upset. The resurrection the next day, with my family in Agios Vasileios of Metsovo Street, was relatively devoid of obscurity…”.

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