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  2. Cult of Dionysus - Wikipedia

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    In addition, Dionysus is known as Lyaeus ("he who unties") as a god of relaxation and freedom from worry and as Oeneus, he is the god of the wine press. In the Greek pantheon, Dionysus (along with Zeus) absorbs the role of Sabazios, a Phrygian deity. In the Roman pantheon, Sabazius became an alternate name for Bacchus. [14]

  3. Dionysus-Osiris - Wikipedia

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    Dionysus-Osiris, alternatively Osiris-Dionysus, is a deity arising from the syncretism of the Egyptian god Osiris and the Greek god Dionysus. Syncretism [ edit ]

  4. List of Egyptian deities - Wikipedia

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    Djefa – God of abundance [88] Dionysus-Osiris – A Greco-Egyptian life-death-rebirth god who was a syncretism from Dionysus and Osiris [89] Duamutef – A son of Horus [90] Dua – A god [91] Duau – A Moon god [92] Fa – A god of destiny [39] Fetket – A butler of Ra [6] Gengen-Wer – A celestial Goose god who guarded the celestial egg ...

  5. Dionysus - Wikipedia

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    Dionysus is represented by city religions as the protector of those who do not belong to conventional society and he thus symbolizes the chaotic, dangerous and unexpected, everything which escapes human reason and which can only be attributed to the unforeseeable action of the gods. [304] Dionysus was a god of resurrection and he was strongly ...

  6. Osiris - Wikipedia

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    Osiris (/ oʊ ˈ s aɪ r ɪ s /, from Egyptian wsjr) [a] was the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion. He was classically depicted as a green-skinned deity with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy -wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive atef crown, and holding ...

  7. Nonnus - Wikipedia

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    Mosaic of Dionysus from Antioch. Nonnus's principal work is the 48-book epic Dionysiaca, the longest surviving poem from classical antiquity. [6] It has 20,426 lines composed in Homeric Greek and dactylic hexameters, the main subject of which is the life of Dionysus, his expedition to India, and his triumphant return. The poem is to be dated to ...

  8. Harpocrates - Wikipedia

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    Isis, Serapis and their child Harpocrates In Egyptian mythology, Horus was the child of Isis and Osiris.Osiris was the original divine pharaoh of Egypt, who had been murdered by his brother Set (by interpretatio graeca, identified with Typhon or Chaos), mummified, and thus became the god of the underworld.

  9. Serapis - Wikipedia

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    Serapis or Sarapis is a Graeco-Egyptian god. A syncretic deity derived from the worship of the Egyptian Osiris and Apis, [1] Serapis was extensively popularized in the third century BC on the orders of Greek Pharaoh Ptolemy I Soter, [2] as a means to unify the Greek and Egyptian subjects of the Ptolemaic Kingdom.