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In the controversial book The Jesus Mysteries, Osiris-Dionysus is claimed to be the basis of Jesus as a syncretic dying-and-rising god, with early Christianity beginning as a Greco-Roman mystery. [4] The book and its "Jesus Mysteries thesis" have not been accepted by mainstream scholarship, with Bart Ehrman stating that the work is unscholarly. [5]
Dionysus named the ancient city of Nicaea after her. [270] In Nonnus's Dionysiaca, Eros made Dionysus fall in love with Aura, a virgin companion of Artemis, as part of a ploy to punish Aura for having insulted Artemis. Dionysus used the same trick as with Nicaea to get her fall asleep, tied her up, and then raped her.
The Bible never states when Jesus was born, [161] [162] [163] but, by late antiquity, Christians had begun celebrating his birth on 25 December. [162] In 274 AD, the Roman emperor Aurelian had declared 25 December the birthdate of Sol Invictus, a sun god of Syrian origin whose cult had been vigorously promoted by the earlier emperor Elagabalus.
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
In Greek mythology, maenads (/ Λ m iΛ n æ d z /; Ancient Greek: μαινΞ¬δες) were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of his retinue, the thiasus. Their name, which comes from μαΞ―νομαι ( maínomai , “to rave, to be mad; to rage, to be angry”), [ 1 ] literally translates as 'raving ones'.
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]
Paris Olympics organizers issued an apology on Sunday after a scene depicting the Greek god Dionysus drew criticism for allegedly mocking Leonardo da Vinci's painting “The Last Supper,” which ...
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 ππΊππ° (di-wo-nu-so).