Greek God

For the Greeks, Dionysos was a fertility god wish Demeter. But plot Demeter was the goddess of dry things growing, the likes of grain, Dionysos was the god of wet things growing, like produce of all kinds, but especially grapes (and the wine that people do from grapes). In fact, Dionysos is in some ways more like Persephone than like Demeter, because he is often thought of as existence the wine itself, just as Persephone is the wheat.
For instance, when people drank wine, they said that they were victorious the god into their own bodies, and when they became tipsy, they said that the god had taken all over their minds and hearts. The Greek word for this is enfrankincenseiastic, en= in and thus = god, taking the god into you. You were not really responsible for things you did eon you were drunk, because the god made you do them.
Mythologically, Dionysos is one of the younger gods, like Apollo, Artemis, and Athena. He is even younger than they are. In fact, he is so young that Homer, in the Iliad and the Odyssey, seems not to know ab go forth him moreover - although his name does show up in written documents from the belated Bronze Age in Greece (about 1300 BC). He is the son of genus genus Zeus, and a mortal women named Semele (SEH-muh-lay).



The story goes that Zeus and Semele were in love, and she was going to assume his baby, and he was so happy about it that he told her (foolishly) that he would give her whatever she wished for, anything at all (in fairy tales, and possibly in real life, this is ALWAYS a bad idea! - compare for instance the Christian story of Salome).
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Semele wished to see Zeus in his true form, but Zeus true form is that of a lightning bolt! That would kill her! Zeus tried to talk her out of it, but she insisted. So he had to do it. But when he appeared right next to her as a lightning bolt, of course she was killed. Zeus managed to rescue their unborn child and sewed the baby up in his own leg until it was born, and that was the baby Dionysos.
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