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دیونیسوس
Sign in to saveIn ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus (; ) is the god of wine-making, orchards, fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre. He was also known as Bacchus ( or ; ) by the Greeks (a name later adopted by the Romans) for a frenzy he is said to induce called baccheia. His wine, music, and ecstatic dance were considered to free his followers from self-conscious fear and care, and subvert the oppressive restraints of the powerful. His thyrsus, a fennel-stem sceptre, sometimes wound with ivy and dripping with honey, is both a beneficent wan
Dionysus was an ancient Greek god associated with wine, theatre, fertility, and ecstatic religious experiences, whose wine, music, and dancing were believed to liberate his followers from fear and social constraints. He mattered to the Greeks because his cult offered a form of spiritual and social release through ritual madness and celebration, while his connection to theatre made him central to their dramatic traditions.
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- Deity.type
- Greek
- Deity.name
- DionysusBacchus
- Deity.image
- Dionysos Louvre Ma87 n2.jpg
- Deity.caption
- Second-century Roman statue of Dionysus, after a Hellenistic model (ex-coll. Cardinal Richelieu, Louvre)
- Deity.god_of
- God of wine, vegetation, fertility, festivity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre
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- the Twelve Olympians
- Deity.abode
- Mount Olympus
- Deity.animals
- Bull, panther, tiger or lion, goat, snake, leopard, fox
- Deity.symbol
- Thyrsus, grapevine, ivy, theatrical masks, phallus, fox-fur robes
- Deity.festivals
- Bacchanalia (Roman), Dionysia
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- Zeus and Semele
- Deity.Roman_equivalent
- Liber
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- Egyptian
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- Osiris
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- Ariadne
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