CLST 2090 Chapter : Myths Of Dionysus
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This is because at some point with consuming it, one can get ~just drunk enough~ to forget your problems. Most people are who they really are when drunk. If it is refused you will be cursed with "the great madness" Wine was the only pain-numbing thing the greeks had. Truly the god of "the wet part of the food chain" God of sap in trees, blood in animals, etc. Sacrifices to dionysus were a sort of communion. Would also tear apart and drink the blood of a sacrificial animal. **it"s important to remember that when a god mates with a mortal, there is always a pregnancy (because the god is the exact opposite of impotent). Any child of a god and a mortal is not a god, Dionysus is the only exception, because when semele was destroyed zeus saved the fetus, and gestated it in his thigh. This made zeus the sole parent of dionysus because zeus birthed him.
