Ah, yes, let us celebrate Dionysus! the god of insanity and ritual madness.* Sure, why not? Let’s celebrate the “unbridled,” ecstatic god (and his various ancient incarnations) that has presided over the fall of nigh every collapsed civilization since creation. Let’s commemorate the inebriating** god of SOD (self-obsessed divas & divos). Let’s pretend history is not repeating itself. Let’s pretend till the end, shall we? Or maybe, not.
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*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysus
**Partly by consuming him in the form of wine and partly through ecstatic dancing, Dionysus’s celebrants would achieve communion with the god, becoming enthusiastic Bacchant( e) s and maenads (“ manic ones”), literally having the god inside them, en-theos in Greek. They headed for the mountain wilderness, there to be “one” with nature. Small or young animals would be seized, torn apart, and consumed raw, their blood being viewed as another incarnation of the deity.
Giesecke, Annette. Classical Mythology A to Z (pp. 55-56). Running Press. Kindle Edition.
BACCHANTES Bacchantes (or Bacchants and Bacchae) were the female worshippers of the wine god Bacchus, who was also called Dionysus. The Bacchantes were also known as Maenads after the mania (“ madness” in Greek) that overcame them while they were possessed by the god.
Ibid.. (p. 212). Kindle Edition.
