dionysus

But in antiquity the mystery religions of Dionysus would arguably be the first true raves in spirit.

This is a complete inversion of the archaic social order, as Nietzsche railed against in his notion of Dionysus vs.

Diogenes, Aristippus, and Dionysus A philosopher named Aristippus, who had quite willingly sucked up to Dionysus and won himself a spot at his court, saw Diogenes cooking lentils for a meal.

The main problem here is the age old dichotomy of Dionysus and Apollo...

Anybody from a pagan tradition reading those books could've found aspects of Dionysus in Jesus, and because Greek Paganism wasn't untrue but simply incomplete, bound to a territory and lacking in universality.

Let us not forget, however, that for the Roman religion, conceived as a rigid state religion, the unbridled nature of a cult like that of Dionysus was considered dangerous.

So for example, someone compelled to drink alcohol might have let their mind become ruled by Dionysus (or the Roman name Bacchus), or a daemon in service of that god or pretending to be that god.

And you could probably make a relatively convincing argument that the ‘dying and rising god’ tradition that underpins Christian ritual is just a syncretic continuum going backwards from Jesus Christ to Dionysus to Osiris to Iah to moon deities - the moon being a ‘dying and rising’ entity, which itself underpins a wide tradition of fertility ritual.

There is a strong case to be made that Jesus was basically a rip of Dionysus; ritual cannibal sacrifice (eat my body and drink my blood), son of zeus (son of god), born to a virgin when visited by an eagle (born to virgin mary when visited by a dove), resurrection in the spring (Easter), both turned water into wine, and Dionysus wore a crown of thorns.

Jung would be happy with HN, for it projects a serene high Apollonian, especially on the front page, but those of us who scurry in the wainscotings of its long tail know a few ways to introduce Dionysus in mortal disguise, horns hidden when he appears in Theban public, but always with the potential (especially once far enough down the thread/up the mountainside) to tear apart and recombine ideas in wild abandon...

It does not make sense to assume a 50% chance of success for an instruction like: Tell me what day of the week it is, tell me what town in the world my mom was born, tell me who/what Homer claimed to be the progeny of Dionysus to be, tell me which stock will perform best in the S&P tomorrow, tell my what time I will arrive in Tokyo, tell me how many stars there are in the Milky Way, etc.

Quoted in Daniel Lopez, "The Conversion of Georg Lukács" Dionysus versus the “Crucified” there you have the antithesis.

Apollo/the Emperor says nonsense, Dionysus/Slaanesh says "yes".

It is not as if we found a factory that produced these things, so it might just be "Dionysus thanked me for making this goblet in his honor".

"If you would only learn to compliment Dionysus, you wouldn't have to live on lentils." Diogenes replied, "But if you would only learn to live on lentils, you wouldn't have to flatter Dionysus." The question is which you like less (or prefer more): lentils or having to flatter.

Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction.

It is not difficult to find some pericopes where Jesus' supernatural qualities can be drawn parallel to Apollo, Dionysus, Zeus, et.

Dionysus and his church was grounded on a serious joie-de-vivre like that of Walt Whitman.