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Aphrodite Dionysus Hermes

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Origin
He is the son of Zeus and a princess of Thebes, Semele (Hesiod, Theogony), the latter having asked his lover to show himself in all his power, could not stand the sight of Zeus surrounded by lightning struck by lightning and died.

Zeus snatched the child from the womb of his mother sewing and made by Hermes in his thigh, where the term came Zeus took out the little Dionysus (The "twice born") To escape the wrath of Hera. The little boy was brought up in a far country "Nysa" (Asia? Ethiopia? India?) (Ovid, Metamorphoses ) is the god of wine and delirium creator (Euripides, The Bacchae ). It is often presented as a child, sometimes with horns (Ovid, Metamorphoses) at the head of a triumphal procession, where it is installed on a chariot pulled by wild beasts and followed by a cheering crowd ( Ovid, Metamorphoses .)
His life was very hectic and many wanderings Egypt, Syria, Greece and India (Ovid, Metamorphoses ) under various disguises (as a girl when he was little kid later) to escape the persistent hatred of Hera. On his way he sends his men to discovery - the use of the vine - and establishes a new religion, because of trances and orgiastic frenzies (Ovid, Metamorphoses ), the Bacchanalia, where all the people, but especially women, had before it a mystical delirium. His enemies are the victims of a murderous frenzy (Homer, Iliad , Euripides, The Bacchae ) or transformed into animals (Ovid, Metamorphoses).
He married Ariadne abandoned on Naxos by Theseus on his return from Crete (Catullus, Poems ) and obtains the god of the underworld to release his mother that he took with him on Olympus.

Attributes:
thyrsus (long pole adorned with ivy)
the chariot drawn by panthers
procession of Sileni, Bacchae and Satyrs

Animals and plants associated:
- Vine
- ivy
- myrtle
- the big cats (Euripides, The Bacchae )
- the goat and the bull

His cult is celebrated all over Greece but particularly in Attica: several parties - Dionysia - took place there during the year, marked by tumultuous processions which were evoked by masks, the spirits of the earth and fertility, and recitations of dithyrambs (hymns in honor of the god) (Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy ). These processions were the origin of Greek drama, comedy, tragedy and satyr play (which keeps more of its original brand) (Virgil, Georgics ).
Roman equivalent Sub the name of Bacchus (come to one of his epithets Greek) he quickly identified an ancient god Italics, Liber pater. His worship remained very much alive until the 2nd century BC where the Bacchanalia were prohibited by the Roman Senate for their orgiastic character (in 186). The cult is still kept as a mystery religion, coupled with Orphism (Dionysus-Zagreus), which promises its initiates a new life after death.

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