Omophagia may have been a symbol of the triumph of wild nature over civilization, 

There is another possible instance of omophagia in The Bacchae. At one point in the play, the maenads go into a nearby town and carry off the children; it is possible that the maenads then consumed them. In art and myth, this incident is linked to 
Omophagia.

It might also have been symbolic that the worshippers were internalizing Dionysus’ wilder traits and his association with brute nature, in a sort of “communion” with the god, where people rape, child molest children, sexually abuse women, use words of insults, behave like wild beasts for the sake of becoming one or joined with god Dionysus and god Bacchus.


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Mythology sometimes depicts Maenads, Dionysus’ female worshippers, eating raw meat as part of their worship and human sacrifice.