Also in that comic about Dick, he uses the word Enthousiasmos which is from Greek for “entry of the gods into you” or receiving the holy spirit. This blog entry defines it as “letting god inhabit your body and act through you.” Basically the same idea as what happens in Voodoo possession, where the Gods come down and “ride” the person in a trance. This is also said to have happened during the Dionysian celebrations.
Wow, apparently the word enthusiasm still carries that archaic connotation, of divine possession. I’d never heard it used like that. Also, here’s something from a cached page on Google:
- It might be well to look at the etymology of the word “enthusiasm.” The word enthousiasmou does not occur in scripture. It does occur in ancient secular writings. Democritus, for example, said he wrote from divine inspiration: “met’ enthousiasmou kai hieroupneumatos.” 1 En theos, the root of the Greek enthousiasmos is “to be inspired by a god” or “having a god within.” 2 Pagans have long believed that one can take in or ingest something of the substance of a god, and that that god thereby possesses or deeply affects her or him. If it’s the wine god Bacchus, or the sex god Eros you’ve taken in, you become controlled by that god, indwelt by that god for a period of time. These gods will have certain effects upon your person, and this is the origin of the term “enthusiasm.”
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