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Behind the divine appears the mother of the divine, which is nothing else than the original force of the human soul. Thus side by side with the gods, man represents goddesses. Let us look at the myth of Dionysos in this light. Dionysos is the son of Zeus and a mortal mother, Semele.
For to the deities 'Tis bliss to make man happy; to destroy him Is anguish to the gods. Thy will be done! Where shall I pour into thine ears their thanks, Below in dust, or at thy throne on high? ZEUS. Here at my throne on earth within the palace, Of Semele! Does she not come, As is her wont, Olympus' mighty king To clasp against her rapture-swelling breast? Why hastens not my Semele to meet me?
I love her yet, the maiden And the maiden yet loves me! For the maiden, many a blossom I begged and not in vain! I came again a-begging, And thou thou givest again: Welcome, gentle Stripling, Nature's darling thou With thy basket full of blossoms, A happy welcome now! Dramatis Personae. JUNO. SEMELE, Princess of Thebes. SCENE The Palace of Cadmus at Thebes.
Never on earthly anvil Did such rare armor gleam, And never did such gallant steeds Drink of an earthly stream. "Back comes the chief in triumph Who in the hour of fight Hath seen the great Twin Brethren In harness on his right. Safe comes the ship to haven, Through billows and through gales. If once the great Twin Brethren Sit shining on the sails." Bacchus was the son of Jupiter and Semele.
But this favor is mortal; it is a poison. Look at this tapestry, which represents Semele. The favorites of Louis XIII resemble that woman; his attachment devours like this fire, which dazzles and consumes her." But the young Duchess was no longer in a condition to listen to the Queen.
One can see that the young student 'Semele' appears to have been written at the academy had learned, through, his occasional visits to the opera, how to manage a conventional theme and conventional machinery in such a way as to startle and thrill.
He writes verses about love in words so stormy that you might fancy that Jove was descending upon Semele; but when you examine his words, as a sober pathologist like myself is disposed to do, your fear for the peace of households vanishes, they are Fox et proeterea nihil; no man really in love would use them. He writes prose about the wrongs of humanity.
Command SEMELE, I'm but a woman, a frail woman How can the potter bend before his pot? How can the artist kneel before his statue? ZEUS. Pygmalion bowed before his masterpiece And Zeus now worships his own Semele! Alas for us poor maidens! Zeus has my heart, gods only can I love, The gods deride me, Zeus despises me! ZEUS. Zeus who is now before thy feet SEMELE. Arise!
"If you wanted to write anything in those days, you just picked up a handful of mud and made a little brick out of it, and wrote away with a stick, didn't you?" "Stylus, my boy, stylus," corrected the Dean, absently. "Yes, I doubt not but what it did away with much of our modern detail." "Oh," exclaimed Kit, suddenly, "I left all the notes on Semele in the library.
'Hail to Dionysus, whom Zeus supreme brought forth in snowy Dracanus, when he had unburdened his mighty thigh, and hail to beautiful Semele: and to her sisters, Cadmeian ladies honoured of all daughters of heroes, who did this deed at the behest of Dionysus, a deed not to be blamed; let no man blame the actions of the gods.
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