hiketes:hiketes:DIONYSUS, the god of intoxication, madness, and ritual ecstasy, presided over the wo
hiketes:hiketes:DIONYSUS, the god of intoxication, madness, and ritual ecstasy, presided over the world of the theater. the embodiment of numerous contradictions - a native greek raised and surrounded by foreigners, an ever-sober god of wine, a living god ridiculed as an effeminate ‘false-man’ - his cult in antiquity was often suspected and sometimes even repressed. the modern association of dionysus with violence, with the dark or subconscious elements of the human mind (though certainly rooted in some textual and archaeological evidence) nevertheless overlooks his other, equally prevalent characteristics: the god whose most frightening epithets included ‘raging,’ ‘bull-faced,’ and ‘man-slaying,’ could in the same breath be called 'savior,’ 'liberator,’ 'the soother of cares.’PENTHEUS: Explained all his mysteries, just like that? Speak straight without any deviation. DIONYSUS: He who believes needs no explanation.— euripides, the bacchae (trans. colin teevan) -- source link
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