Omophagia

As Omophagie (Greek ωμο OMO " raw "; φαγητó phagitó "food ", " food" ) is referred to in the cult of Dionysus, the on the putative Sparagmos tearing of live animals (and humans) following eating raw meat.

To what extent the tearing or raw eating animals actually was part of the cult practice, or whether it is merely part of the Dionysian myth is unclear. In any case, " raw eaters" ( ὠμηστής, ὠμάδιος ) an epithet of Dionysus.

In research, the concept of Omophagie, though so far mostly associated with Dionysus and his cult, in a work of 1990 has Joan O'Brien but on the significant use of the term in the Iliad of Homer down. There, the concept appears particularly related to Hera, but also to other figures of the epic, such as Achilles, where he acts as a metaphor for unbridled, " barbaric " blood thirst.

In a broader sense Omophagie is eating raw meat in a cultic context.