#This isn’t even going into his inherent association with foreignness despite being a Greek himself
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hey. You ever think about how Dionysos prays to Melqart in the Dionysiaca. You know. The patron god of Tyre. And Dionysos is the grandson of Cadmus. A prince of Tyre. Whose of argive decent but whose family had been ruling Tyre for a while at the time of Europa’s kidnapping.
He’s praying to his ancestors’ god.
I may be overthinking it but whatever
#This isn’t even going into his inherent association with foreignness despite being a Greek himself#Greek mythology#dionysus#There’s also a fuck ton of syncretism in this passage it’s giving orphism a run of it’s money
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