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Dionysus, Greek god of wine, usually identified with the Roman Bacchus. Du Kang, Chinese Sage of wine. Inventor of wine and patron to the alcohol industry. Hathor, Egyptian goddess of love, passion, wine, and drunkenness. Inari, Shinto goddess of sake. Li Bai, Chinese god of wine and sage of poetry. Liber, a Roman god of wine.
Dionysus in Greek mythology is a god of foreign origin, and while Mount Nysa is a mythological location, it is invariably set far away to the east or to the south. The Homeric Hymn 1 to Dionysus places it "far from Phoenicia , near to the Egyptian stream ". [ 245 ]
In Greek mythology, the Oenotropae (Ancient Greek: Οἰνοτρόπαι, "the women who change (into) wine") or Oenotrophae (Ancient Greek: Οἰνοτρόφαι, the "Winegrowers") were the three daughters of Anius and Dryope. [1] [2]
The most important surviving accounts of Greek mythology can be found in Homeric epic, ... Opora (Όπώρα), goddess of autumn and wine; Orthanes
This is an index of lists of mythological figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology. List of Greek deities; List of mortals in Greek mythology; List of Greek legendary creatures; List of minor Greek mythological figures; List of Trojan War characters; List of deified people in Greek mythology; List of Homeric characters
Amphictyonis / ˌ æ m f ɪ k ˈ t aɪ ə n ɪ s / (Ancient Greek: Ἀμφικτυονίς, romanized: Amphiktuonís) in Greek mythology is a goddess of wine and friendship between nations, a local form of Demeter.
Cultist rites associated with the worship of the Greek god of wine, Dionysus (or Bacchus in Roman mythology), were characterized by maniacal dancing to the sound of loud music and crashing cymbals, in which the revelers, called Bacchantes, whirled, screamed, became drunk and incited one another to greater and greater ecstasy. The goal was to ...
Artemis, goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, wild animals, the Moon, chastity and childbirth; Demeter, goddess of the harvest, agriculture, fertility and sacred law; Dionysus, god of wine, grapes, and festivity, associated with fertility, particularly that of the vine and males; Priapus, Greek god of fertility, gardens and male genitalia