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In his letter To the Cynic Heracleios, Julian wrote "I have heard many people say that Dionysus was a mortal man because he was born of Semele and that he became a god through his knowledge of theurgy and the Mysteries, and like our lord Heracles for his royal virtue was translated to Olympus by his father Zeus." However, to Julian, the myth of ...
Orpheus was said to have invented the Mysteries of Dionysus. [1] It is possible that water divination was an important aspect of worship within the cult. [2] The cult of Dionysus traces back to at least Mycenaean Greece, since his name is found on Mycenean Linear B tablets as 𐀇𐀺𐀝𐀰 (di-wo-nu-so).
Dionysus punished them by driving them mad, and they killed the infants who were nursing at their breasts. He did the same to the daughters of Minyas, King of Orchomenos in Boetia, and then turned them into bats. According to Oppian, Dionysus delighted, as a child, in tearing kids into pieces and bringing them back to life again. He is ...
Dionysus, the god of wine, theatre, and ecstasy in ancient Greek religion, has been compared to many other deities, both by his classical worshippers and later scholars.. These deities include figures outside of ancient Greek religion, such as Jesus, [1] Osiris, [2] Shiva, [3] and Tammuz, [4] as well as figures inside of ancient Greek religion, such as Had
Denwen – A Serpent and dragon god [86] Djebuty – Tutelary deity of Edfu [87] Djedefhor – Son of Pharaoh Khufu who was deified after death because he wrote a book considered to be the work of a god [86] Djefa – God of abundance [88] Dionysus-Osiris – A Greco-Egyptian life-death-rebirth god who was a syncretism from Dionysus and Osiris [89]
Unnamed man: None An unnamed man was turned into stone out of fright when he saw Cerberus, the three-headed dog that guards the Underworld. [37] Wolf of Psamathe: Thetis or Psamathe After Peleus killed his half-brother Phocus, who was Psamathe's son, out of jealousy, Psamathe sent a wolf to devour Peleus' herd for revenge. After the wolf had ...
Pseudanor (Greek: Ψευδάνωρ pseudo-+ anēr "false man", metaphorically an "effeminate man") was a Macedonian epithet applied to Dionysus.Other Macedonian appellations to the god were Agrios (Ἄγριος) [1] "wild" (as god of the countryside) and Erikryptos (Ἐρίκρυπτος) "completely hidden" (as the god hidden from the frenzied women roaming the countryside by the ...
Her cult was the most far-reaching of any goddess, [74] and she presided over female (as well as male) initiation rites. [75] She is among the oldest of the Greek gods, and is closely linked with Asia Minor. [76] In Homeric epic, she is described as a talented hunter who traverses the Arcadian mountains, accompanied by a retinue of nymphs. [77]