INDIE

DIONYSUS

BASED ON THE GREEK MYTH

PRIVATE && SEMI-SELECTIVE

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DRAFTS: Ø
ASKS: Ø
STARTERS: Ø

written by kayra


Apollo: Oh my gods, I'm so hungover.

Dionysus: I feel great. I ran 5k this morning.

Apollo: Really?

Dionysus: No, I threw up in the shower.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Euripides, Bacchae (via observando)

Dionysos is a very difficult divinity to define – and one suspects that this is exactly how he would want it to be. He is a god of vegetation, particularly of the creeping vine. He is a god of liquid fertility: the catalyst that initiates the process of growth, the vital force that sustains it, and the fluid nourishment that flows from it. Semen, blood, water, wine, honey, milk – Dionysos is all of this. His very essence is a fluidity that is at once defined and undefined.

Notes on Orphic Hymn 30. To Dionysos: The Orphic Hymns Translated by Apostolos N. Athanassakis & Benjamin M. Wolkow

m-l-rio:
“If there is no god of wine,
there is no love, no Aphrodite either,
nor other pleasure left to men
(Euripides, Bacchae [trans. William Arrowsmith])
Dionysus (detail), the British Musuem, 29 October 2015
”

m-l-rio:

If there is no god of wine,
there is no love, no Aphrodite either,  
nor other pleasure left to men
(Euripides, Bacchae [trans. William Arrowsmith]) 

Dionysus (detail), the British Musuem, 29 October 2015



Hermes: How drunk are you?

Dionysus: A lot to very.



Apollo: Oh my gods, I'm so hungover.

Dionysus: I feel great. I ran 5k this morning.

Apollo: Really?

Dionysus: No, I threw up in the shower.