If you read my posts I didn't say that part was included in the play, it was included in the
myth.
According to greek mythology, the maenads, in their frenzy, would tear apart any males that came in their way, animal or human. For example, Orpheus died in this way.
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Shattered by grief (for not saving Eurydice), Orpheus wandered the forests of Thrace, singing his wife's lament, and was attacked by the maenads (Dionysus orgiastic women) who tore him to pieces. His singing head floated down the river, and all was lost. Eventually the head floated ashore on Lesbos, and that's how the island became the centre of poetry.
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Mythology also associates the maenads with other unconventional behaviour, including eating the raw flesh (omophagia) of their victims, animals and humans.
Core Ritual of Dionysus: The core ritual associated with the worship of Dionysus was orgiastic, meaning that it involved states of trance-like ecstasy, “outside-of-oneselfness,” merging with and possession by the god. It was celebrated every two years, at mid-winter near the time of the solstice, on barren mountain tops, especially Mt. Parnassus overlooking Delphi. There were three parts to this ritual:
* oreibasia (“mountain dancing”): To the accompaniment of flutes, drums, and cymbals, the worshippers, particularly women, danced themselves into ecstatic trances.
* sparagmos (“tearing to pieces”): In these trances they caught snakes and small animals and dismembered them with their bare hands. This vase painting shows Dionysus himself participating in the ritual.
* omophagia (“eating raw flesh”): By eating the bloody flesh of these animals, the worshippers became one with the god and with the wild natural forces that he represented.
Of course I wouldn't trust them per se but regardless of that History in itself is self-renovating, and each year, each month, new discoveries are made which enable us to better understand what really happened.
Just a question, why do you say "Hellinic" and "Hellin"? Is that the correct pronouciation/spelling for the most common "Hellenic"?