Greek Gods: Dionysus
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- Dionysus was the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness and ecstasy in Greek mythology. He is a god of epiphany, "the god that comes", and his "foreignness" as an arriving outsider-god may be inherent and essential to his cults. Dionysus was the last god to be accepted into Mt. Olympus. He was the youngest and the only one to have a mortal mother. His festivals were the driving force behind the development of Greek theatre.
The text for this audio is from the book Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology edited by William Smith and published in 1849 and is in the public domain. This audio was recorded by LearnOutLoud.com and is narrated by Antonia Bath. Copyright © 2008 LearnOutLoud, Inc. Any reproduction or illegal distribution of the content in any form will result in immediate action against the person concerned.
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+T Sousa, seria interessante se pudessem traduzir, seria muito bom!!!
rui porto - brasil
Is this really human's reading?
The drowner of mans' sorrow, turning it into artistic expression of such feeling that could never be translated. Men turned to beasts, like the dolphin drowning itself, the wolf turning feral and vicious towards common man, or any other similarity man adapts to in times of desperation as he drowns in the ocean of life.
i wonder how people accept the notion of a baccian dionysus as being so in tune with the rest of his personal characteristics.
Im an avid believer and have read much on the subject study case that actually Dionysus is sometimes represented as a dying god, and that the origin of his existence are more than the wine one. He was also, in antique and now almost forgotten times, the representative of massive orgiastic events in which sacred mushrooms containing psilocin (basically a readily digestible form of DMT) were consumed, and thus, god presented himself.
await me world. I will do my best for his rebirth
Do have any links/sources to the stuff about the link between Dionysus and psychedelia? I'd be interested in that as I'm expecting a book which talks of Nietzsche's use of psychedelics.
F**k Google
Found this in a jiffer, but i didnt read that book www.serendipity.li/dmt/forbidden.html
it seems rather intriguing though, how they assume the main ingredient in a certain beverage is either wine or Ergot, (predecesor of LSD) when the divinity status of the cow is widespread everywhere, and not to mention that the Dung beetle in Egypt pushes the Holy shit (cow dung, where the mushrooms grow ready and obvious) and turns it into the Sun
Torbina.exe Thanks, I look forward to reading it.
I love You, Lord Dionysus! God bless You and all the Gods of High Olympus! xoxo :)
Ryan Wilkes Your prayer has been heard, i bless you in my name :))
I can turn water into wine ))
Coda Ferguson you dissapoint me because you say, that i dissapoint you :) :)
+Dionisis Moisides big deal! i can turn wine into pee
Why pee, turn it into something more pleasurable like bier ))
Dionysus was the son of juice.
Mounted Czarina lmaooo
I didn’t wanna like it...
The well lived life is like wine
It gets better with age,
And moderation
The well prayed prayer is like
Breathing, happening constantly
With life itself as our prayer
By living, we increase all life
By meditation we moderate
Balance is the greatest high
And the truest creative love
For which it was named Lo-Ve
Lava
Lover! Lets be lazy susans and know heaven's allowance, that
All suffering is untrue
I love this!
I was thrilled and amazed at your info. THX
Dionysus (Greek: Διόνυσος, Dionysos) is the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, fertility, theatre and religious ecstasy in Greek mythology. His name, thought to be a theonym in Linear B tablets as di-wo-nu-so (KH Gq 5 inscription), shows that he may have been worshipped as early as c. 1500-1100 BC by Mycenean Greeks; other traces of the Dionysian-type cult have been found in ancient Minoan Crete. His origins are uncertain, and his cults took many forms; some are described by ancient sources as Thracian, others as Greek. In some cults, he arrives from the east, as an Asiatic foreigner; in others, from Ethiopia in the South. He is a god of epiphany, "the god that comes", and his "foreignness" as an arriving outsider-god may be inherent and essential to his cults. He is a major, popular figure of Greek mythology and religion, and is included in some lists of the twelve Olympians. Dionysus was the last god to be accepted into Mt. Olympus. He was the youngest and the only one to have a mortal mother. His festivals were the driving force behind the development of Greek theatre. He is an example of a dying god.
The earliest cult images of Dionysus show a mature male, bearded and robed. He holds a fennel staff, tipped with a pine-cone and known as a thyrsus. Later images show him as a beardless, sensuous, naked or half-naked androgynous youth: the literature describes him as womanly or "man-womanish". In its fully developed form, his central cult imagery shows his triumphant, disorderly arrival or return, as if from some place beyond the borders of the known and civilized. His procession (thiasus) is made up of wild female followers (maenads) and bearded satyrs with erect penises. Some are armed with the thyrsus, some dance or play music. The god himself is drawn in a chariot, usually by exotic beasts such as lions or tigers, and is sometimes attended by a bearded, drunken Silenus. This procession is presumed to be the cult model for the human followers of his Dionysian Mysteries. In his Thracian mysteries, he wears the bassaris or fox-skin, symbolizing a new life. Dionysus is represented by city religions as the protector of those who do not belong to conventional society and thus symbolizes everything which is chaotic, dangerous and unexpected, everything which escapes human reason and which can only be attributed to the unforeseeable action of the gods.
He was also known as Bacchus (Greek: Βάκχος, Bakkhos), the name adopted by the Romans, and the frenzy he induces, bakkheia. His thyrsus is sometimes wound with ivy and dripping with honey. It is a beneficent wand but also a weapon, and can be used to destroy those who oppose his cult and the freedoms he represents. He is also called Eleutherios ("the liberator"), whose wine, music and ecstatic dance frees his followers from self-conscious fear and care, and subverts the oppressive restraints of the powerful. Those who partake of his mysteries are possessed and empowered by the god himself. His cult is also a "cult of the souls"; his maenads feed the dead through blood-offerings, and he acts as a divine communicant between the living and the dead.
In Greek mythology, he is presented as a son of Zeus and the mortal Semele, thus semi-divine or heroic: and as son of Zeus and Persephone or Demeter, thus both fully divine, part-chthonic and possibly identical with Iacchus of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Some scholars believe that Dionysus is a syncretism of a local Greek nature deity and a more powerful god from Thrace or Phrygia such as Sabazios or Zalmoxis.
This sounds like the output of a long game of telephone. Like wtf is going on?!
We were taught to love Greek myth in high school Wtf for?
I wonder the difference from him and Aries
Dionysus could do great things using the nature such as turn people into dolphins
Dionysus is son of Indus, native place in India. I also heard the Delphi of the oracle was established over goddess of earth, Gaya. In Sanskrit Gayathri is a goddess of Earth too. Is there relation between these peoples the ancient Aryans of Vedic India and the Greeks
I am doing a greek god/goddess/mythical animal thing and dionysus is my god
Pimps God
MACEDONIAN GOD OF WINE !!! IN my birthtown of Kavadarci we have a celebration in the name of Dionys ! The celebration is for the first day when we start to Grape harvesting ! TIKVES is the ancient-oldest-and biggest winary and grape& wine produce region in Europe who produce wine even for Alexandar the Great and his army , and Kavadarci is the main town in TIKVES REGION ! :) ( Joking :D ) Dionysus is OUR god, GREEK and MACEDONIAN !, but the Tikves region most famuos for the best wine in Europe it's in today Republic of Macedonia . Fact. City of Kavadarci is 30km from ancient city of Bylazora, main city of Filip the Macedonian, father of Alexander III the Great. Just SEARCH IT !!!
it's one and the same with osiris/ra/horus
No its one and the same with Horus.
And Freyr
Well my 🍷 buzz is blessed
Wow
Dionysus is the God of Creativity. There are only two Demi-Gods that live upon Mount Olympus with Zeus and the other Immortal Gods. The reason they are Demi-Gods (Hercules and Dionysus) is that they are a representation of traits, we humans can share with the Gods, which is bravery and creativity. A prophecy befalls Zeus and he needs the help of two mortals to win the war against the Giants. Zeus explicitly creates Hercules for this reason, although he knows he will need two mortal sons. You need bravery and creativity to truly truly overcome adversity. The more I understand Hercules, the more I understand Dionysus and his story. Dionysus is the only God to be challenged and judged by a mortal, why is that? Well, his rituals are women dancing in the jungle with no seemingly good reason, is what the next King of Thebes Pentheus assumed. Creativity is something that is often often judged by people alike, that is why Dionysus was judged by a mortal.
Its no wonder, that Aliester Crowley's mention and dedicated chapter, in his "Book of Lies" is so moving. The occultist, and self-explorer, drug fiend, list goes on.... Must have felt he was the son of Dionysus. lol
Children at the age of 3 every year would get their first taste of wine to celebrate dionysus
Dionysus was the God of grapes,fertility,theater, and wine making
He's what some call a pretty boy if my memory serves me right
read to fast .
Why not just say goat?
Anyone here from BTS's new song? nope ok lol
Fiona TaeTae meeee
Me hahhahahha
I came here cuz of Percy Jackson who else?
dionysus is the sun !
Ethan Plasm apollo is the sun too...many mythical characters were the sun...dyonisos was called the also center, the light, the alpha and omega - symbolism for the sun (in the beginning without the sun there couldn't be "alpha" and with the end of the sun then it will be the end -omega). jesus is the sun too - "i am the light of the world" ;)
StevieGreek Alithinos helios is the sun too but also dionysos
pascalirinel You're an idiot, because what you say is false. I shall spit upon your eye.
More like Krishna
Bts anyone
What is the matter with this story? Bloodfest!! Stupid and untrue.
Dionysus I thought was a girl lol sorry not