Gaga's character is a Maenad?

[The Surrealist 27,470]

In Greek mythology, Maenads were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of theThiasus, the god's retinue. Their name literally translates as "raving ones." Maenads were known as Bassarids, in Roman mythology after the penchant of the equivalent Roman god, Bacchus, to wear a bassaris or fox-skin.

Often the maenads were portrayed as inspired by Dionysus into a state of ecstatic frenzy through a combination of dancing and intoxication.  During these rites, the maenads would dress in fawn skins and carry a thyrsus, a long stick wrapped in ivy or vine leaves and tipped with a pine cone. They would weave ivy-wreaths around their heads or wear a bull helmet in honor of their god, and often handle or wear snakes.

I mean look at how she looks like next episode.

[SamJ 8,008]

I think she needs a wash tbh.

[Yuuri 21,636]

3 minutes ago, UK Monster said:

I think she needs a wash tbh.

I second this. 

[Blake 7,385]

Hey True Blood.

 

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I thought she was Croatoan lol

[The Surrealist 27,470]

5 minutes ago, flopheart said:

I thought she was Croatoan lol

Croatoan is a tribe/island.

[Yuuri 21,636]

4 minutes ago, flopheart said:

I thought she was Croatoan lol

I think she is, but the thread is talking what she is based on(creatures, animals, gods myths)

"The Croatan (also spelled Croatoan) were a small Native American group living in the coastal areas of what is now North Carolina. They may have been a branch of the larger Roanoke people or allied with them."

[zakariah 11,718]

She's disgusting af this season, I live  

Really hoping we get to see a full backstory of her character, because we still dk wtf she is yet  

inb4 even she doesn't know wtf her character is yet either  

Teas  

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5 minutes ago, Zakariah said:

She's disgusting af this season, I live  

Really hoping we get to see a full backstory of her character, because we still dk wtf she is yet  

inb4 even she doesn't know wtf her character is yet either  

Teas  

"I am putting out a character this year, I won't tell you how!"

[Guest]

They surely have been inspired by maenads, I still don't know how her character is going to evolve

Still have to see ep 3 so we'll see

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2 minutes ago, RF said:

They surely have been inspired by maenads, I still don't know how her character is going to evolve

Still have to see ep 3 so we'll see

You're in for a treat. 

[Guest]

10 minutes ago, Eohl said:

You're in for a treat. 

Really?

Does she have a decent screen time?

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Just now, RF said:

Really?

Does she have a decent screen time?

Her scenes are kinda bit longer and by that I mean a few seconds longer.  

But you really do not want to miss this episode!

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1 hour ago, Sycamore said:

In Greek mythology, Maenads were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of theThiasus, the god's retinue. Their name literally translates as "raving ones." Maenads were known as Bassarids, in Roman mythology after the penchant of the equivalent Roman god, Bacchus, to wear a bassaris or fox-skin.

Often the maenads were portrayed as inspired by Dionysus into a state of ecstatic frenzy through a combination of dancing and intoxication.  During these rites, the maenads would dress in fawn skins and carry a thyrsus, a long stick wrapped in ivy or vine leaves and tipped with a pine cone. They would weave ivy-wreaths around their heads or wear a bull helmet in honor of their god, and often handle or wear snakes.

I mean look at how she looks like next episode.

Cheers From Greece..

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I think she's related to Priscilla! Or at least similar.

Priscilla is half Native American, half European settler, and was outcast because of it. I think Gaga's character is half Native American, half white folk I say this because everything about her says Native American witch doctor to me. In the picture you posted above she had just scalped someone! Native Americans are known for scalping. And in real life the settlers colony of Roanoke were in contact with the Croatoan Indian tribe.

Also, in season one of AHS they have flashbacks to the Roanoke tribe and the Native Americans were there too!

The reason I think she's half white is because Gaga could never pull of being full Native American   that'd be like blackface... and also Priscilla is described as being half of each.