Avid watchers of HBO's "True Blood" know that the Maenads were the rabid female followers of Bacchus (also called Dionysus).
It is a thyrsos.
Bacchus is the Roman name of the god that the Greeks called Dionysus.
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In Rome he was called Bacchus.
His Roman name was Bacchus.
Satyrs, their leader is Silenus.
The followers of Hinduism are called Hindus
Thyrsos (a pine-cone tipped staff).
...Bacchus...
Followers of god Shiva are called Shaivites.
Bacchus was the Roman god of wine and revelry. His Greek analogue was Dionysos. In each culture, he was honored through dramatic festivals. Euripides' play The Bacchants features Dionysos as he was worshipped by the Maenads, frenzied women.
Kamara Bacchus's birth name is Kamara Nadine Bacchus.