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Subject: The thyrsus Path: you​!your-host​!walldrug​!epicac​!thermostellar-bomb-20​!skordokott​!berserker​!plovergw​!shitpost​!mjd Date: 2018-07-25T13:16:29 Newsgroup: sci.math.thyrsus Message-ID: <b77f6d7dd71fbcc7@shitpost.plover.com> Content-Type: text/shitpost Another cool piece of Dionysian paraphernalia is the thyrsus (from Greek θύρσος) which is a staff topped with a roughly conical plant part, canonically (cononically?) a large pine cone, but it could be a flower or an artichoke or something like that. I have sometimes toyed with the idea of carrying one around, but it seems like it would be more inconvenient than useful.