The Dionysiaca

[anansi]

From what I have read so far Nannos was either a Kemitic speaking Greek or a Greek Egyptian born in upper Kmt, I get a little confused at times with the subject of the Pygmies vs Ostriches he said India but sounds like Africa, and I am not sure if the womanish worriors were the blackmen being mention or another group under Thyrusus who is also womanish; Is he talking about Amazons or Gays??

In the morning, the god went forth to war, driving before him the violence of the black men, that he might free the neck of the Lycians and those who dwelt in Phrygia and Ascania from the yoke of cruel tyranny. Then Bacchos sent two heralds to give proclamation of war, either to fight or to fly: and with them went goatfoot Pan, his long-haired beard shadowing his whole-chest.

At the mouth of the Astacid lake many a son of India was cut up by the steel of the Curetes. The warriors surrounded the battalions of the foe with blow for blow, and imitated the rhythms of the armour-dance in the wheeling movements of their feet. Leneus broke off a crested peak from a mountain, and lifting this in his hairy hand, he cast the jagged mass among the enemy: the Bacchant yelled in triumph, the Bassarid cast her vinewreathed point, the heads of many men in that blackskin crowd were brought down by the womanish thyrsus. Eupetale was ready, and pierced a bold man with her deadly shaft, then let fly her pointed ivy covered with vineleaves to smash the steal. Stesichore with her bunches of grapes skipt into the mellay, and shooed off a tribe of enemies with manbreaking bullroarer, waving a brazen pair of loudclashing cymbals.
www.theoi.com/Text/NonnusDionysiaca14.html

[Tukuler al~Takruri]

From what I know of Greek mythology and from what I can make out
in your given source this is what I can come with on your questions.

Pygmies of Aithiopian Libya fought cranes not ostriches and Nonnus
is only referring to sound made in their battles likening the war cries
in this Indian War to them.

Not sure if the warriors are described as womanish or rather what they
brandish, the thyrsus, a fennel plant stalk capped with a pine cone that
Dionysus' female followers, the Maenads, used as if spears in this war
incident.



So I think neither Amazons nor gays are what Nonnus means. When the
Maenads were f--ked up on whatever wine and drugs they imbibed in the
name of Dionysus they were then known as Bassarids, who would cut,
stab, and rip apart whoevere or whatever they came across.



BTW True Blood loosely based the 2nd season villainess on the Maenads.
truebloodnet.com/maryann-maenad/
truebloodnet.com/maryann-forrester-mysterious-mad-maenad/

[anansi]

Thanks Al-Takruri ,Cranes not Ostriches were mentioned.

But the terms Womanish and Amazons were spoken of

But swiftshoe Hera, likening herself to an Indian, the curly-headed Melaneus, warned Astraëis, the spearshaking captain of men, not to uplift the thyrsus nor to heed the yell of drunken Satyrs, but to raise war to the death against Dionysos. She spoke these words to move the Indian chief: “You’re a nice one, to fear a feeble troop of women! Fight, Astraëis! Arm yourself too, Celaineus, and take a sharp blade to cut down Dionysos and his ivy-bunches! Thyrsus is no match for spear! No, no, look out for Deriades! He will be mad, and make an end of you, if you shrink from a weak unarmed woman!”

So is this to be taken that they were just weak men?aka punk asses?

Btw thanks for the hook-up to the series will check it out.