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Updated: May 10, 2025
Some alps and chalets, dimly traced against the sky, are evidences that a pastoral life prevails above the vineyards. Pan there stretches the pine-thyrsus down to vine-garlanded Dionysos. The Adda flows majestically among willows in the midst, and the valley is nearly straight.
All are in their dresses of office; for this is not merely a day of amusement, but of religions ceremony; sacred to Dionysos Bacchus, the inspiring god, who raises men above themselves, for good or for evil.
The Preserver of the Persians, who is seated on a rainbow in front of their rock temples, is Mithras, who is identical with Noah. Sometimes this ancient mariner is represented as riding on the back of a fish, and again as floating in a boat. The God of Hindostan, like the classical Dionysos, was enclosed in an ark and driven into the sea.
It sez, "His heart was stirred within him and he taught them about the true God" in the synagogue and market-place. As we stood there in that hallowed spot, Miss Meechim said: "Oh, that I had been there at that time and hearn that convincin' sermon, how glad would I have left all and followed Him, like Dionysos and Damarus."
Dim images passed through my mind. Orpheus No, this was no Greek. Pan-yet again, No. Where were the pipes, the goat hoofs? The young Dionysos No, there were strange jewels instead of his vines. And then Vanna's voice said as if from a great distance; "Krishna the Beloved." And I said aloud, "I see!"
Tradition, no less than the distinguished character of the festival, requires that they should do their utmost in the gymnastic display. Two performances." Signed by Dioskourides, magistrate of Oxyrrhynchus. Here is a report from a public physician to a magistrate: "To Claudianus, the mayor, from Dionysos, public physician.
The Hermae venerated by the ancient Greeks were pillars, usually of stone and quadrangular, surmounted in most instances with a head of either Hermes or Dionysos; and with a peculiar transverse rail just below the head, much used for hanging garlands upon, which made the whole look more or less like a cross.
Whence were revealed the new graces of Dionysos with the dithyramb that winneth the ox ? Who made new means of guidance to the harness of horses, or on the shrines of gods set the twin images of the king of birds ? Among them thriveth the Muse of dulcet breath, and Ares in the young men's terrible spears.
Even the consumption of beer heavily increased in the wine countries, and under the protection of the Treaty of Frankfurt, the god Gambrinus has made some audacious sallies into the territories sacred to Dionysos. The same thing occurred in regard to wine in the ancient world.
It's as if he were taking the child farther and farther away, partly because of us." "I don't like that. I don't feel that at all." "We belong to this world, you see, and are subject to all its conditions. We are in it and of it." "Well?" "He belongs to such a different world." "Yes, the released world, where no ugly passions can ever get in." "The way he looks at Dionysos tells one that.
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