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thelastbacchae:Ch. 3, Page 36.<< Previous || Start Reading || Next >>“Children, this is the story of How I Met Your First Mother.”That particular brother he’s supposed to have quarrelled with is left to your imagination. Picture Persephone thinking of the god you prefer.Note:“First mother” because Dionysos was born twice. The first, indeed, from the union of Zeus with Persephone, under the name of “Zagreus”. Zagreus who, left unguarded for more or less five minutes, was found by a group of Titans and by them dismembered and eaten. Then, Zeus chose very gallantly to have him born again, with the help of the Theban princess Semele who, insisting to see Zeus’ true form, was sadly thunderstruck by the vision. Some anonymous sources told us that it was swearing and cursing that Zeus took the phetus from what remained -very little indeed- of Semele, and incubated it in his tight until the pregnancy was over.It happens. -- source link
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