All language subtitles for The Bacchantes - 1961

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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 bacantes women who

worshipped the new god

the 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 bowie

and to his birthplace the city of thebes

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 proud capital founded by

cadmus

and preserved by pentheus seemed marked

for destruction

by the gods

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so

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outside the city walls was the never

failing spring of naisa

the last in all boetsia that still

offered the thebans a trickle of

precious water

it was surrounded by guards and by order

of agave

mother of king pentheus who was away

from thebes 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

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beginnings

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 from thebes 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 pentheus prohibits

the recognition of dionysius

the thebans do not dare to pronounce his

name even one alone there

the blind tyresius 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 thieves thieves will

come to me

farewell little monto farewell

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so

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look at that 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 collars you're glad

to give up her bath

well luckily penthouse will soon return

sure the minute he gets back he'll bring

water to your staple

oh thiebans my sons listen once more to

the power of my words

the power of words does not quench third

quiet 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 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 thieves

and that is dionysus thieves

gave him birth and in the whole of the

world only

thieves refuses to render him honor

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 pentheus who may

be at fault

the whole of thieves will be punished

you speak well tiresias but then who

will protect us from the wrath of the

king

no one at all except your faith in the

power of the god

if you have it

he has never lied to us 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 pentheus 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 you

go in you will see

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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

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

you'd remember me thank you drc

what is the matter your eyes are not

happy

yet to be consecrated to demeter is a

great great honor

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 to have to leave my father and all

my friends

and worse lock down more 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 fate

chosen by the gods run along now and get

ready

the high priest awaits you go

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um

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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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to you demeter i offer the vanity of

manto

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

lacdamo

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 it's you who are queen

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

is it 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 then the

work's over oh i'm glad it's over

now go back and get another load

let's go everybody out don't waste time

boom get him

let's go let's get out come on

i was afraid you wouldn't come

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

i am promised to demeter and no 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

well what's in it wine the sacred wine

of dionysus

wine and thebes how did you get it at

the fountain of nisa 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 beating 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

lead me

and i don't want to go well then why

must we submit to a fate which we do not

wish

why create such great unhappiness tell

me what can i do

renounce the temple we'll flee far from

here

in a single night we can reach distant

locris or walking toward the sun even

attica 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

i'll be waiting

the king his pentheus returned to

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thieves

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all boazia is dying

a plane of coffee's always been turned

into a desert

famine has spread from the fauquies 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

pantheous even in thebes 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 him sacrifice

the rebels says nothing it only repeats

now out with his name who is it who

incites them tyresius

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

the devoted followers of dionysus are

not all barbarians who are speaking

i feliquities from the tribes of

atamante

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 gods

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 rest 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

speak if you will panthers the people

are discontented

but it's folly to give into 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 thebans the drought

has exasperated them

and the prattling of tyresius 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 at all cost a

revolt 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 tyresius

monto 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 prophet no it would be too

dangerous

after so much desert at last an oasis

dear see

welcome back pencils before me always

during my difficult journeys to the

ultimate beauty of your eyes

or in going through the plains of my

realm i've remembered you often

i'm honored all of me does you anna

but nothing makes you rejoice why is

that

you recoil from my hand no but don't

tell me it's your modesty

the 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 thebes

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 sitaron

and performed miracles it was said that

they were worshippers 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 implacable to the

enemies of their god

they were the bakandi's 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 then 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

u-branch struck the earth

and when she did so a stream of water

sprang up

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 is i tell you tyresius was

right it is the god who was angry at

thebes

it's the fault of king panthers who

refuses to honor him he's the guilty

wonderful i heard should die i've got to

honor dionysia the king has to be me to

listen to us i say take

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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

manto

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

from 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 la damo

it's useless to wait any longer panthers

will not run out this time he's got to

give in

we will all

we must sacrifice

you know the truth now i am putting your

destiny back into your hands where it

belongs

you alone must make up your mind

go proclaim throughout thieves that the

king wishes to address his people

oh

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pretty strange

i don't know whether i should still call

you by the name of phoebens

because if you do bear that name i alone

panthers 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

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 o thebans 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 it's all yours

my son now the people are with you once

again

as long as they have water

is

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uh

what's going on

hey what's happening the king has given

us water but why because tomorrow we'll

have rain

tomorrow

tonight i want to be in the very front

row me too i feel much better now human

sacrifice that doesn't happen every day

of the week does it you said 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

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manto

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manto

you're too late like damn 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 lactama

i will speak to the king in a few days i

will be the queen

he has to listen to me stop this

sacrifice

manta has not yet been consecrated to

the meter she's only been promised

you cannot have her killed manto 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 tempo

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

who in a few days will be my husband to

save manto

what is the name of this young man like

dharma

he's only a slave but noble in spirit

if monte dies it will also be his death

what you're asking of me is no longer in

my power i've told the people and

promised that monto would be sacrificed

and what the king says is the law and

it's absolutely impossible for me to

change it but it isn't human

and one of the gods they two are inhuman

and a king is more similar to a god than

to a man

dionysus i tiresias

here humbly do you honor

on the ritual stoned i have spilled

the blood of a tender goat for i have

none other to offer you

and you you dionysus who more than any

other god

has always loved man's frail short life

i implore you not to let little manto

die

you a god-born of mortal woman

who understands all our joys and all our

anxieties

have pity on your blind servants and oh

dionysus give me a sign

to show me the way

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 rains 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 tyresius speak come

close to me dear say

it is you the future queen who must

first do honor to dionysus to god

how in great secret

gather this very night the most

beautiful and noble fieben maidens

and light up with them the sacred mount

citroen

there at the entrance to the cavern 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 dance you

you must lead your companions in the

sacred dances 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 thieves

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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so

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so

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so

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yes

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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 a most

happy reunion

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what's this

hurry up

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so

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oh

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dionysus i pray that you perform a

miracle

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foreign

oh

he's over here

watch people of thieves and take heed

it's the great goddess to meet her

preparing as promised to receive mantha

and sacrifice

and before your eyes shine her

benevolence the rain is upon us it's not

true

it is a lie it's not demeter 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 by the deep sound

of his voice

and not after human blood flows on the

stone

let us proceed with the sacrifice

to you demeter i sacrificed manto for

the people's welfare

arrest that arrogant stranger

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no one will ever capture

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a three-month-old

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nearly all of the young people of thebes

climbed the heights of the sacred mount

citron the miracle that had saved monto

and brought rain to boetzia 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

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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 sidaran to celebrate

the forbidden baccanal

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 its potency he incited

the youths and their maidens to defile

their purity

such conduct deeply offends the customs

of thebes

and they have made a mockery of the law

i now hold them within my power

i order you to deploy your troops to the

sitter run 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 orgies he has brought

i love you lockdown i want to live at

your side for the rest of my life

so do i my mountain 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 her more than

your happiness and your joy

and your exaltation

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 tobaccos

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 avoid sing to dionysus

sing to thy nieces gave away

a boy

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if dionysus the son of zeus wanted to

save the life of manto

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 she

betrothed to lockdown

i know full well 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 over here

now thievins this man whom you've

believed to be a slave

low and insignificant is the son of ino

the sister of agave of the valiant race

of cadmus

and it was agave who plotting to

preserve the throne for pentheus and his

future descendants

had the boy kidnapped in his infancy to

be brought up as a slave among slaves

thus hiding the truth of his noble

origins

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 manto

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

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what's happening

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i risked every one of them

come with us don't touch her come on

let's go

oh

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oh

we've managed to capture all of them and

the stranger

disappeared there

we'll search that grotto

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there seems to be no way into this

passage no entrance of any kind

yet it looks like the cavern continues

on that side of the stones

from what i can see there's no way to

escape from over there

let's go

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hmm

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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 manto like

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

who gave all her love to zeus

with whom she conceived dionysus

igor didn't want to believe in that love

the child was called illegitimate

and semillar found dishonor and then

death

but zeus whose power is infinite why

didn't you repair 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 dionysus 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

dioenesis will abandon his human aspect

and his human destiny

what a wonderful reward for simile

to find again through love that which

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 dears

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

um

me

here my friends is dearsey of helenan of

antalis

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 bowitsia

are gathered here to do your honor and

to present you with their gifts

i salute you dear see may the future

bring you much happiness

the tribe of atamonte will bring to you

20 of the softest bear skins ever

brought down from our mountains

and to pentheus your husband and our

king the ever invincible armor of cadmus

the founder of thebes which we have

jealously kept in our custody till now

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okay

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i heard that you're looking for me

panthers 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 are dressed you

hail from the land of barbarians

however your costume doesn't seem to me

to be that of a priest

nor certainly that of a warrior what is

it then that brought you to thebes

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 profane one is a just

king who forbids such impure back anals

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 disrobe then abandon 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

bacante

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 citroen

a meal for the eagles and a prey to 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

soldiers take him away

you know neither what you do know what

you are i am king panther your son of

agave in a q

a pin theos 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 siddharan

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 thebes the

great rejoicing for my wedding be

unmarred

i order that every single young thievin

captured on mount sidderran

be now put at liberty thank you benthus

mine is not only clemency it is justice

attention young thievins the clemency of

king pentheus is great

he has given you your freedom open up

not you why not no

where are you taking us let go of me

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

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 quartered 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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they will soon be in slumber

you see actin in a public punishment

before the populace

the condemned 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

pentheus

what will you do my men and i will fight

and bring them to lock down

our people's true son and the real king

of thebes

far too many soldiers stand guard at the

dungeons

there may be only 30 of us from the

tribe of atamonte 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

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

free 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 dircy 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 you the now the god dionysus

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 dammo i must follow you no matter

what you do or say even if you use

force to stop me oh my love

then i will drink the potion before you

and open for you myself the gates of

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darkness

look look over there disappeared

you are free to go and your wife along

with you who are you

poligrity's 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 mountains

pentheus the infantry and the sacred

guard are ready to move how many

warriors does polygraphies have with him

no more than 30 what road have they

taken they're fleeing toward mount

sidaran

the cavern where the stranger is hidden

with dear say

we'll wipe out his men in a single blow

long before the new moon is risen

many lives will have drowned in the

bloody river of history

go now await my arrival at the head of

the army

who is it in this house comes sneaking

out of the darkness

a shadow or a man

it is i darisius what is it you want of

me now

prophet of disaster i have come to you

to persuade

you to follow the way of wisdom and what

marvels this wisdom teaches

it promises to men of justice such as i

am that they themselves

have the power to crush and destroy any

enemy who appears to oppose them be

careful pentheus

the gods will punish all men who follow

the road of evil

what is that evil if mine are evil ways

then all men stand condemned for you'll

never find the man who with gold and

with power

won't seek to surpass his fellow man the

gods wait a long time

watching the acts of men and then the

impious ones are overthrown

and i don't fear your gods and i don't

fear the law for a king can change any

law in his favor

it is bitter penthouse to taste the

vengeance of the gods

i am the king and i have the courage to

meet my destiny without fear

do not go your fate is already sealed

don't go son

perhaps dionysus will really prove to be

a god

mother even you give in

i am afraid remember the prophecy of the

sybil

i will challenge that prophecy once and

for all

now i have orders to give to our

soldiers my son don't take chances

it's better for you to render honor to

the god accept him and save your life

i feel my life has no meaning if i must

cringe and crawl like a vile serpent

son i implore you stay

here i have a terrible feeling i'll

never see you again

i must fight i have a proud name and

i'll bow to no one neither mortal nor

divinity

that is how you brought me up mother and

if the road which you have always chosen

for us

should lead to our ruin you alone are

guilty

and you will pay the price he's no

longer to blame

only my own folly he too

has offended the god you and he will be

overthrown

in the same disaster

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emptiest men are attacking on two sides

and we'll be there to greet them

warn loch domo and monto not to move out

of the cavern for any reason whatsoever

very well

politics the infantry is honest they've

come up from the plane

hurry up all of you get to the rocks

let's go

the battle between the mountaineers of

poligrades and the heavily armored

infantry of thebes

was heroic and tragic a magnificent

sacrifice

the 30 men from the tribe of aramantes

slowly retreated to the innermost

reaches of citaron

defending the caves they fought to the

death with the ranks of theban soldiers

as they had promised their chieftain for

every one of them who fell

ten thieben 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

the last of the heroes had fallen the

king's triumph is inevitable

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oh

hmm

uh

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oh

now pray for help to your god dionysus

to the cavern

o zeus my divine father i invoke you

and you women of my following pakantes

raise up your thirsties

climb the joyous symbols of fridger that

you may defeat the legion of pentheus

hey boy

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and away

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do

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makanji's

it's the god

there say enter into yourself

again it is your king who orders it

i'm no longer dear i no longer know you

the god commands me out of my way then

then go quickly

being a woman could never save you from

the wrath of pantheous much greater the

rage that you will encounter

dear say this is the day you were

destined to join your life with mine

my life belongs to the god and yours

is already veiled in darkness

it is

you may finish the carnage

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what's happening look look there

the rocks the rocks are turning red

the burning what heat they're glowing

they're melting

let's go run for your lives

run for your life

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so

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forward soldiers

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hahahahahahahahaha

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for the last time render homage to

dionysus

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

intimidated

surrender for you're 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 dionysus

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

loch darmo i will never retreat before

my fate

on your guard luck domo it is not yet

written that pentheus is vanquished

oh

oh

hmm

and now luck domo it's either me

or you

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the fates have decreed it

look at me now luck domo see how a king

of thebes meets death

dionysus

darcy

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 is over

no 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 but the 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

passions

give me dionysus the necessary strength

so that i can endure this pain you dear

say will lead the bacantes

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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so

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oh

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so

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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

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before

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you