Orgies

Webster's Dictionary

(1): (n. pl.) A sacrifice accompanied by certain ceremonies in honor of some pagan deity; especially, the ceremonies observed by the Greeks and Romans in the worship of Dionysus, or Bacchus, which were characterized by wild and dissolute revelry.

(2): (n. pl.) Drunken revelry; a carouse.

(3): (pl.) of Orgy

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Festivals among the Greeks and Orientals generally connected with the worship of nature divinities, in particular Demeter ( q. v .), Dionysos ( q. v .), and the Cabiri, celebrated with mystic rites and much licentious behaviour.