noun
- The practice of eating raw flesh, especially in ancient religious rituals; ritual consumption of raw meat.
Usage: archaic; historical; often used in reference to ancient Greek Dionysian rites
Examples
- Ancient texts describe omophagias as part of Dionysian festivals.
- The practice of omophagias was documented in classical Greek literature.
- Scholars study omophagias to understand ancient religious ceremonies.
- Omophagias represented a form of ritual consumption in antiquity.