gods of pagan Oral stories, theater plays, entertainment and art;

Their name literally translates as “raving ones”. Often the maenads were portrayed as inspired by him into a state of ecstatic frenzy, through a combination of dancing and drunken intoxication.

In this state, they would lose all self-control (the state of becoming gay), begin shouting excitedly, engage in uncontrolled sexual behavior, and ritualistically hunt down and tear to pieces animals — and, at least in myth, sometimes men and children — devouring the raw flesh of raw meat. 
Stimulating of desire of eating meat with blood was also one of the inspired activities, inspired by the maenads.

The maenads are also known as the wild energies which takes over the body of a drunkard human being, putting him/her into the motion of dancing wildly, shouting, breaking loose, having wild sex, practicing orgy or group sex, and misbehaving.

The Art of mixing of Alcohol and the selling of it was always done in the honor of the Bacchus god, Dionysus and the maenads.

The maenads were also known as Bassarids (or Bacchae or Bacchantes) in Roman mythology, Maenads in female nature were sexual attractive women, dedicated to the nursing of god Dionysus. 

The fantasy or act of sexual desires which draws men to engage in group sexual acts with many women. The story in the bible talks about the two daughters of Lot, who decided to make made their father drunk, and then have sexual intercourse with him.