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[meadowtwins]

Information sheet about Dionysus 🍇:

When being interested in deity worship it is important to do the regarding research about, well, everything. Not every source is tells you all the Information you need to gather. There's always gonna be a few questions you may have left unanswered so I'll try to mash it all up together in one post as a (hopefully) trustworthy source! The Information gathered below me, beside the basics is mostly based on all the questions I used to have that were left unanswered for a LONG while. (Long Post ahead)

Dionysus (Di-on-y-sus) also called Bacchus, is a member of the twelve greek Olympians. He is roughly classified as God of wine, fertility, vegetation, reincarnation, parties and festivites, comedy and tragedy plays, madness and wilderness. Bacchus is the Roman given name, depraved from the frenzy and madness he induced, called Baccheia. Additionally the Romans called him Liber Pater, meaning free father.

Family: His Father was Zeus, his Mother the mortal Semele (who was also classified as the Goddess of Bacchic frenzy), no full blooded siblings, his Wife was Ariadne

Myth: Simply told, Zeus and Semele were lovers. Hera, Wife of Zeus and Goddess of lawful marriages, women and family and marital harmony, felt jealousy and persuaded a pregnant Semele to ask Zeus if he would show her his true self. Now this part gets told each way, he agrees and his godly divinity burns her to death, or her consistant asking made him so angry that he let thunder rain onto her, resulting into her death. Either way, after her Death, Zeus feels compassion for the yet unborn child, cuts it out off Semeles body to sew it into his thigh until it can rightfully be born. The next part gets told differently. After his birth, Hera was so enranged that he was alive that she ordered the Titans to kill him. After they have ripped him apart, Rhea allegedly revived him again and Zeus ordered him to be brought up by the Nymphs. His attribute of the reincarnation steems from this myth. Differently it gets told like this: When he was born, out of protection, he was given to a foster parent. Now this again is different in each myth. Sometimes he was entrusted to Hermes, other times Seilenos, even after that he was given to Semeles sister and her husband. Eventually Hera found out about his location and drove the couple into madness, letting them murder each other. After this he wandered the world in search of his purpose. During his travels he learned of vine, wine-making, etc. He arrived in Greece then Thebes long time after trying to establish a reign. Marking his name as God of Epiphany (The god who comes). The, mostly winemaking skills, he has learned abroad impressed the people. But the ones in power, such as his cousin Perseus, denied his worship and disbelieved his divinity. Soon he has gotten his own cult under the influence of ecstasy and madness. Mostly the woman of Thebes have taken a liking to his influence, they were called Maenads. Everyone who was against his reign and the madness he spread were destroyed (by his Thyrsus in the Myths). His influence became wide spread, marking his title as the God of madness and frenzy.

Cultural context: Knowingly, he was worshipped in Naxos, Boiotia and Edonia. There he was seen as a God of Orphic Mysteries, A God of the Eleusinian Mysteries or God of the vegetable Gardens.

Attributes: Grape-vine, Ivy crown, Thyrsus, Parties and Festivites, Wilderness and Vegetation and Comedy and Tragedy Plays

Sacred things: Thyrsus, grape-vine, Ivy, Cinnamon, Silver Fir, Bindweed, Wheat, Barley, Leopard, Cheetah, Tiger, Goat, Donkey, Lion, Serpent, Wild bull, Apples, Figs, Berries, Acting, Wine, Drunkeness and Pleasure, Festivites, Ecstasy, Reincarnation, Predatory big cats, Homosexuality, the Colors Red, Purple, Gold and the Card of the Devil/Hanged Man

His Worship: Broadly his cult was called Bacchic, the followers Bacchantes. Some called it Dionysian Mysteries. He was called Dionysus Eleutherius, the liberator, as his wine, the madness and ecstasy free his followers from their monotone life and subvert their fear into something powerful. Those who believed in him were at first ridiculed until they realized what the consequences of being against his reign entailed. The first of his followers were the women, who were called Maenads. In their madness they tore wild animals apart, wearing their fur as devotion and even their family, believing them to be leopards/panthers of that sort. These Maenads additionally wore Ivy crowns as to honor Dionysus' attributes. Under his influence people were believed to be possessed by his godly powers, letting them gain unhuman strength. Followers of him included spirits of fertility, such as Satyrs.

Festivities: Dionysia (lesser Dionysia) was one of the oldest festivals in dedication to Dionysus. It was said to celebrate to cultivation of vine. Timewise it was celebrated around modern December/January. It was centered on a procession, followed by drama performances. City Dionysia (greater Dionysia) was a festival held three month after lesser Dionysia, modern March/April. This festival was more elaborate and carried more worthy offerings such as wooden statue of Dionysus. The followed drama performances were performed by more noteworthy playwrights. Anthesteria celebrated the beginning of spring. It span across three days, with each day regarding a tradition in honor of Dionysus.

Offering Ideas (traditional and modern): Alcohol (specifically Red wine), Bottles, Corks, Cider, Honeyed Milk, Water, weed or any type of hallucenigens, Drugs, Grape (Grape flavored things), ticket to the Theatre, Costumes/Masks, Pinecones, Fennel, any Wildflower, Figs, Ivy, Honey, Bones, imagery of his sacred animals, preserved Animals, fur cloth, Wheat, Barley, Olive Oil, Musk, Bread, Grape-Vine, Fruit, anything regarding Homosexuality or Effeminaty, Cinnamon, Silver Fir, Apples, storax, thistle, Black diamonds, frankincense, Golden jewerly, Amethyst/Tigereye, concert tickets, any imagery of his attributes, devotional acts of listening to music, singing, going drinking/partying, learning about his attributes, braiding hair, letting your hair grow out, making devotional art/hymns/prayers, wear his colors, sexual acts (only if you're comfortable with that), confidence in yourself, in ancient greece Maenads made blood offerings due to his connection with the dead (see: the myth of him going to the underworld to save his Mother Semele) but be REALLY careful if actually doing that

How to pray/offer to Dionysus: When praying to a Chthonic God you would have your head and hands down with your hair open. The Prayer can be anything. There is an actual structure of a hellenic prayer (invocation, argument, request) but during modern times it isn't necessary. Be respectful and thank him. Traditionally his offerings were burned but again, no necessity. Be sure to have some sort of protection during an offer/a prayer. "Euoi" was a passion cry from Bacchic worshippers that is still used today. You could use it in a prayer!

This is all the main information I've gathered so far. When coming to connect with gods its important to know what they represent and what they're known for.

Happy Witching!

Additional links to check out if you want to learn more about his myths or his connection to his attributes:

[tautline-hitch]

sometimes Odes 4.12 just emerges and haunts you for a while and there's nothing to be done about it. howl

[strangelittlestories]

The first time he saw a sponsors' billboard at a music festival, Dionysus threw up on the ground.

He stood there for a moment, transfixed by the swirls of bile and wine and other glittering substances that fizzed and smoked against the earth.

He stared at the augury spelled out by his godly fluids and his eyes were wide as shotguns.

"D?" One of his followers had noticed that this was more than the usual moment of revery that followed revelry. She looked at his eyes. She gasped.

His followers had seen him horrified on many occasions. There were times, after all, when he had seen something awful and needed to be cradled to sleep like a child. Often, they were awful things that he had *done*. They had come to learn that his rages were just as beautiful as his sorrows - these were the times he was his most alien and his most vulnerable.

But this was the first time they had seen him *scared*.

"D, are you ok? Do you ... do you need a drink?" His expression was like a warning sign in a foreign language. "Do you want me to hold you?"

"What is this doing in my temple?" They had never heard his voice so level, so drained of music.

"That? It's just a beer company, D. They pay the festival to put the branding up..."

"Oh, it's not a brand, dearest." D clicked his finger and this particular follower - he thought her name was April, or maybe May or September, a month of some kind at least - fell to the ground, her body spasming in what could have been pain or pleasure but was most definitely ecstacy. "It's a *muzzle*."

Then Dionysus walked away into the forest, never once looking back at the revellers he left behind.

The press speculated on his disappearance, but never found anything concrete to say, just endless waves of speculation. Most of his followers moved on to worship other gods or celebrities, following the party scene.

Tuesday - the girl who had noticed D's fear and whose name he had very nearly remembered - left the scene entirely and became a computer programmer. Many of her employers have commented, over the years, on the vines that occasionally grow out of the servers wherever she works. But they always stopped asking questions when she fixed her eyes on them with that whipcrack of drunken intensity.

When asked what had happened to D, she would only say "he's coming back".

When the 8acchae announced their presence by streaming a live concert from a prominent bank's website, most dismissed them as just another Anonymous knock-off.

But some people recognised the name, or noticed the vines that decorated the ivory of their theatrical masks, or recognised the drunken stare of their shotgun-dilated eyes. And they began to stock up on tinned goods, for they knew the wild time that was coming...

[phantomofthecafe]

Online Offering to Dionysus

🐆Io Euoi!🍷🎭

[differentsoulsweets]

Dionysus: Introductory Post

Διονυσος [Liber, Bacchus] Greek god of wine and insanity

Epithets: ✧ bakkhos [Of bacchic frenzy] ✧ Bromios [boisterous] ✧ Staphylites [of the grape] ✧ Oinops [wine-dark] ✧ Eleuthereus [of liberation] ✧ Androgynos [androgynous] ✧ Kistophoros [ivy bearer] ✧ Taurophagon [bull eating] ✧ Euaster [He who cries Euoi]

Domains: ✧ Wine making ✧ Orchards ✧ Fruit ✧ Vegetation ✧ Festivity ✧ Insanity / Ritual Madness ✧ Theatre Devotional acts: ✧ Host/attend parties (be responsible!) ✧ grow a plant ✧ make or drink fruity drinks ✧ Taking care of yourself mentally and physically

Associations

Symbol: ✧ Thyrsos ; Ivy Crown ; Grape-vine

Element: ✧ Earth (upg)

Color: ✧ purple ✧ green ✧ gold ✧ red ✧ black ✧ white ✧ burgundy

Metal: ✧ None known

Crystals and stones: ✧ Garnet ✧ Ruby ✧ Amethyst ✧ Grape agate

Animal: ✧ Leopard ✧ Goat ✧ Donkey ✧ Lion ✧ Serpent ✧ Wild bull ✧ Panther Plants: ✧ Grape-vine ✧ Ivy ✧ Cinnamon ✧ Silver fir ✧ Bindweed ✧ Figs

Food & Drinks: ✧ Red Wine ✧ Olive oil ✧ Water ✧ Fruit ✧ Honey ✧ Honeyed milk ✧ Meats ✧ Wheat ✧ Barley

Day, Season, Time of Day: ✧ None known

Tarot: ✧ Hanged Man ✧ The Hierophant ✧ The Devil

[thoodleoo]

they should invent rage rooms but for sparagmos. give me a room where me and my girlies can rip apart a piñata shaped like a deer and shout euoi as false blood sprays at us

[nyxshadowhawk]

Sweet is the pleasure the god brings us in the mountains, when from the running revelers, he falls to the ground clad in his sacred fawnskin. […] Hail to the Roaring God, Bromios our leader! Euoi! The ground flows with milk, flows with wine, flows with the nectar of bees. —Euripides, Bacchae

The Villa of the Mysteries! I had to go out of my way for this, missing most of the Pompeii tour, but it was completely worth it! These paintings depict a Dionysian initiation rite, and there are some other remarkable paintings in the rest of the house. I was not expecting to see syncretic Egyptian ones!

I also met another a Dionysian irl! The owner of the nearby restaurant turned out to be a shaman to whom Bacchus speaks. He was thrilled to meet someone else who understood that Bacchus isn’t just a god of wine.

Praise Dionysus!

[noctilionoidea]

Kissies yea yea euoi bakkheia idk sorry im still waking up

I finished this piece because I wanted to draw Dionysos and Ariadne in modern clothes having fun. Also wanted to draw the snake grape skirt again because I’m of the opinion it’s the best thing I’ve ever designed (I will make it one day). I fucked up while adding Dionysos’ blush so I drew lipstick marks and I thought it was so cute i decided to go with it all the way so yea

[vasyandii]

Hello! 🖤 What is one (or some) of Nak's hobbies?

Also I hope you (and Nak) have a lovely day or night! 🩷

Hi hi thank you we hope you have a good day too :3!! Thank you for the ask!!! ❤️❤️

Phayvanh is a bit embarrassed about not having many hobbies since she doesn't have many friends other than Syd and Iskra. Her main hobby is eating and working out to maintain her physique :3 but she's curious about other hobbies

Lao Translation Notes:

"Gin Lai Lai" technically means "Eat alot!" With emphasis on "alot" as encouragement; however when a man uses it, it sounds very Childish or Girly

"Nong Euoy" is a term of endearment but reserved for people younger than you. "Nong" Directly translates to "Little Sister/Brother" but most couples (the older person) uses it as "baby". "Euoy" is just for emphasis

[countrydionysia]

Dionysus by @beastial-bacchanal

Twice born, he cries Euoi! Euoi!

The frenzied, bull-horned one.

In equal measure fear and joy, 

Zeus’ flamboyant son.

There’s magic in his heady wine, 

And madness in his eyes. 

He is the lord of growing vine, 

Performers in disguise.

His maddened women tear the skin 

And rend the tender flesh, 

They feast upon the meat within 

And drink the blood still fresh.

In ecstasy, we call to thee 

O actor’s patron true, 

When we would set our wildness free, 

 We drink, and think of you.

[blackbacchus999]

Io Euoi!!!!

[beatingdrumspouringwine]

Dikerotes

Heavenly Dikerotes, He who bears the cow-horns upon His head, Whose horns are richly gilded, Who strikes fear into the hearts of men, We praise You. The horns You bear are fearsome to those who do not know You, Who think You to be a wicked monster, Who believe You to be a corrupting force. And yet, EUOI! Our voices cry out to the two-horned God, Who frees and inspires our souls!

[tautline-hitch]

also realized while rereading Aeneid 6 that the way Horace uses Orpheus-summoning-Eurydice to address Virgil in Odes 1.24 really matches nothing in Georgics 4 so closely as it matches Aeneas's plea to the sibyl:

si potuit Manis accersere coniugis Orpheus Threicia fretus cithara fidibusque canoris (Aen. 6.119–20)

"If Orpheus availed to summon his wife's shade, strong in his Thracian lyre and tuneful strings..." (Fairclough)

quid si Threicio blandius Orpheo auditam moderere arboribus fidem num vanae redeat sanguis imagini...? (Odes 1.24.13–15)

"What if you could play more charmingly than Thracian Orpheus the lyre once heeded by the trees? Would blood return to the empty wraith...?" (Rudd)

the conditional, the epithet, fidem / fidibus, the fact that V cuts off the question (the next line moves off to Castor & Pollux) but H completes the thought (a very Horatian 'well, and?').......

thinking about what this means in light of dates (probably just that H was reading Aeneid 6 in early draft, which doesn't seem implausible at all; less likely but more interesting, V responding to H responding to V). but also thinking about Odes 4.12 again. what it means to address the dead man whom you instructed not to mourn too long for the dead. and, because This Is How Literature Works—at least if you insist on striking your head on the stars—to keep doing it after you yourself have died.

... Eurydicen vox ipsa et frigida lingua, a miseram Eurydicen! anima fugiente vocabat Eurydicen toto referebant flumine ripae. (Geo. 4.525–27)

Eurydice that voice and cold tongue called Ah poor Eurydice with dying breath Eurydice the riverbanks returned

[hungwy]

ai/ia > e

ae/ea > ɛ

ei/ie > ɪ

iu/ui > ɨ

ou/uo > ʊ

au/ua > o

ao/oa > ɔ

eo/oe > ə

iueo/uieo/eiuo/ieuo/ueio/euio/euoi/ueoi/oeui/eoui/uoei/ouei/oieu/ioeu/eoiu/oeiu/ieou/eiou/uioe/iuoe/ouie/uoie/ioue/oiue > ɪ̈

eoa/eao/oea/oae/aeo/aoe > ɜ

[thegodwhocums]

Oh, Evius, oh, Bromius, oh, thou son of Semele, oh, Bacchus, who delightest to mingle with the dear choruses of the nymphs upon the mountains, and who repeatest, while dancing with them, the sacred hymn, Euios, Euios, Euoi!

Aristophanes, Women at the Thesmophoria. The Complete Greek Drama, vol. 2. Eugene O'Neill, Jr. New York. Random House. 1938.

[aliciavance4228]

I was searching various sources on the Internet about Perseus and Dionysus' war in order to provide @superkooku with an answer and found this part from the Dionysiaca:

"[The Argive river] Inakhos was witness to both [Perseus and Dionysos], when the heavy bronze pikes of Mykenai resisted the ivy and deadly fennel, when Perseus sickle in hand gave way to Bakkhos with his wand, and fled before the fury of Satyroi cyring Euoi; Perseus cast a raging spear, and hit frail Ariadne unarmed instead of Lyaios the warrior. I do not admire Perseus for killing one woman, in her bridal dress still breathing of love."

Later he says that she was armed and that he petrified her. Besides, aren’t you supposed to remain impartial and not express your personal opinions, Nonnus? Even your wanna-be objective narrator is an unreliable one.