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thyrsus

In Greek mythology, a staff carried by worshippers of the god Dionysus, formed from a stick wound around with the ivy sacred to the god, and crowned with a pine cone.
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Repeated pine reference echoes the thyrsus, a staff crowned by a pinecone and carried bv the maenads.
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