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Diodorus states that Dionysus' birth from Zeus and his older sister Demeter was somewhat of a minority belief, possibly via conflation of Demeter with her daughter, as most sources state that the parents of Dionysus were Zeus and Persephone, and later Zeus and Semele. [90] Dionysus (Bacchus) and Demeter (Ceres), antique fresco in Stabiae, 1st ...
At Thebes and Orchomenos, a festival entitled Homolôïa, which was celebrated in honour of Zeus, Demeter, Athena, and Enyo, was said to have received the surname of Homoloïus from Homoloïs, a priestess of Enyo. [3] A statue of Enyo, made by the sons of Praxiteles, stood in the temple of Ares at Athens. [4]
She is the first child of Cronus and Rhea, the elder sister of Hades, Demeter, Poseidon, Hera, and Zeus. Some lists of the Twelve Olympians omit her in favor of Dionysus, but the speculation that she gave her throne to him in order to keep the peace seems to be a modern invention. [citation needed] Dionysus: Bacchus Liber
Diodorus relates that Dionysus is the son of Zeus and Demeter, the goddess of agriculture, and that his birth narrative is an allegory for the generative power of the gods at work in nature. [236] When the "Sons of Gaia" (i.e. the Titans) boiled Dionysus following his birth, Demeter gathered together his remains, allowing his rebirth.
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter mentions the "plain of Nysa". [97] The locations of this probably mythical place may simply be conventions to show that a magically distant chthonic land of myth was intended in the remote past. [98] [h] Demeter found and met her daughter in Eleusis, and this is the mythical disguise of what happened in the mysteries ...
Zeus' fourth wife was his sister, Demeter, who bore Persephone. The fifth wife of Zeus was another aunt, the Titan Mnemosyne, from whom came the nine Muses: Clio, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnia, Urania, and Calliope. His sixth wife was the Titan Leto, who gave birth to Apollo and Artemis.
Hestia is a goddess of the first Olympian generation. She is the eldest daughter of the Titans Rhea and Cronus, and sister to Demeter, Hades, Hera, Poseidon, and Zeus. Immediately after their birth, starting with Hestia, Cronus swallowed each of them, but their mother deceived Cronus and helped Zeus escape.
The birth of Dionysus, and possibly also the binding of Hera and Dionysus's arrival on Olympus [154] [155] 2 "To Demeter" Demeter: c. late 7th – c. early 6th century BCE [156] 495 The abduction of Persephone, Demeter's attempt to recover her from the Underworld, and the origin of the cult of Demeter at Eleusis [157] 3 "To Apollo" [g] Apollo