Dionysus : Greek god of fertility & wine; also called Bacchus. He was intimately connected with the Eleusian Mysteries (q.v.), & was patron of choral songs & drama.
... foot lay the city of Nysa, as a place where Dionysus had been, and he links with its name the Greek legend that Dionysus was bred in his father Zeus's thigh (meros in Greek). In a few things Diodorus differs from what most authors have quoted from Megasthenes. After repeating the story of the invasion of India by Dionysus he (ibid.) mentions Dionysus as not leaving the country after his achievements... making their Dionysus a composite of Shiva and Prithu. Perhaps they would be further helped on finding that the appellation "Lord of Prithvī", which would be most apt for Prithu, was also used for Shiva: Shiva is called Prithvīśvara in a Gupta inscription. 1 The Sanskrit for the Name "Dionysus" Our special formula of Dionysus=Prithu and our broad one of Dionysus=Shiva=Prithu... the Indians became identified with Dionysus (Bacchus) in the Greek mind to serve as the starting-point of Indian chronology and of the line of Indian kings?" To begin with, we may note from the more expansive versions of Solinus and Arrian that Dionysus and Alexander are terms of comparison in respect of the invaders of India - especially the Greek ones. Dionysus is declared to be the first who ...
... left behind by Dionysus when he returned home from the wandering which, according to a story by Euripides in his Bacchae, had taken him all over the East. However, we may heed what Strabo (XV.7) has to say on the "conquests" of both Dionysus and Heracles: "As for the stories of Heracles and 1. "The Yavanas", op. cit., p. 101 with fn. 2. Page 260 Dionysus, Megasthenes and... figures of their legends..." Do we not know how they saw Heracles in Krishna of Mathura and found Dionysus in Shiva of the hills? The Dionysian Nysaioi are also an instance of their Hellenifying tendency. Another instance is provided by Strabo (XV.8): "They further called the Oxydrakai descendents of Dionysus, because the vine grows in their country, and their processions were conducted with great pomp... not till 306 [B.C.] that we have a portrait of a living king on his coins when Ptolemy I appears, still as a god with the aegis of Zeus. Seleucus I similarly puts himself on his coins as Dionysus..." Now, Dionysus is well-known as the Son of Zeus by Semele, and the etymology of the very name is supposed to be: "dio - name of the Thraco-Phrygian sky god resembling Zeus; nys- possibly akin to Lat. ...
... condemned to transmigrate until its final deliverance. 10. Dionysus: Etymologically Dionysus means "The Zeus of Nisa." And he seems by several similarities of legend and function to be the Greek form of the Vedic god Soma. It is normally accepted that the cradle of his cult was Thrace. The exuberance of the legends of Dionysus is explained not only by his great popularity but because he absorbed... absorbed within himself many other foreign deities. The identification of Dionysus with the Cretan god Zagreus introduces, under the influence of Orphic mysticism, a new element in the legend of the god; that of the passion of Dionysus. Son of Zeus and Demeter (or sometimes of Kore), Dionysus- Zagreus was torn to pieces by the Titans who threw the remains of his body into a big caldron. Pallas Athena... popular known by the name of Orphism, which trend of thought closely followed that of India. According to the great Orphic myth, man was represented as a compound of the ashes of Dionysus and the titans. The soul (Dionysus factor) was divine, but the body (titan factor) held it in bondage. The watchword therefore was "Soma, Sema" -the body, a tomb. Hence incarnate existence was more like a death, ...
... gods. This Shilindhra or toadstool has behind him Dionysus, the delight and loveliness and enjoyment and youth – a veritable symbol of ecstasy, of earthly ecstasy. That which is nectar in heaven is presented on earth in drugs and herbal juices. Shilindhra and ambrosia pertain to the same class. The birth of Shilindhra resembles the birth of Dionysus. When King Zeus took the form of thunder and lightning... but these unobtrusive deities are near to our hearth and home. The Greeks referred to the Olympian gods, of high caste and rank as it were, – like Jupiter and Apollo – ¹ "The Ambrosia of Dionysus and Semele" in New Poems 1962 (Cassel-London). Page 180 and to those others who dwelt on the lowly earth and embraced its water and land, its rivers and trees and fields – the nymph... lightning and entered the womb of Semele, Dionysus was born. Similar is the story of the appearance of the toadstool, in the midst of rain and thunder and lightning and on the lap of mother earth. We have already said that there are two categories of gods or two types of them – one belongs to heaven and the other to earth. The Vedic Rishis announced that heaven was our father and earth the mother – ...
... This Shilindhra or toadstool has behind him Dionysus, the delight and loveliness and enjoyment and youth—a veritable symbol of ecstasy, of earthly ecstasy. That which is nectar in heaven is presented on earth in drugs and herbal juices. Shilindhra and ambrosia pertain to the same class. The birth of Shilindhra resembles the birth of Dionysus. When King Zeus took the form of thunder and... and lightning and entered the womb of Semele, Dionysus was bom. Similar is the story of the appearance of the toadstool, in the midst of rain and thunder and lightning and on the lap of mother earth. We have already said that there are two categories of gods or two types of them—one belongs to heaven and the other to earth. The Vedic Rishis announced that heaven was our father and earth the mother—... Svarga, Dyaus, is the world of light, and earth or bhu is that of delight and enjoyment. We have already said that high above, up there, dwell Apollo and Zeus and Juno, and below here on earth, Dionysus and Bacchus and Semele and Aphrodite. However the poet says that as the toadstool is born in the midst of thunder and lightning, his strength and capacity are of the nature of thunder—enduring ...
... discouraged; for Dionysus the wine-god and Hades, the Lord of Death, the Lord of the dark underworld, are one and the same deity. Professor Ranade takes this eulogy of the dry soul as praise of the dry light of reason; he finds in it a proof that Heraclitus was a rationalist and not a mystic: yet strangely enough he takes the parallel and opposite expressions about the moist soul and Dionysus in a quite... sense ecstasy, emotional excitement, an obscure impulse and inspiration whose source is from a dark under-world. Dionysus is the god of this wine-born ecstasy, the god of the Bacchic mysteries,—of the "walkers in the night, mages, bacchanals, mystics": therefore Heraclitus says that Dionysus and Hades are one. In an opposite sense the ecstatic devotee of the Bhakti path in India reproaches the exclusive... Surely, it cannot be so; Heraclitus cannot mean by the dry soul the reason of a sober man and by a moist soul the non-reason or bewildered reason of the drunkard; nor when he says that Hades and Dionysus are the same, is he simply discouraging the drinking of wine as fatal to the health! Evidently he employs here, as always, a figurative Page 218 and symbolic language because he has to ...
... the reverence assigned to the mind in European civilization. He called autonomous thought a deadly illness, and opposed to Apollo, the god of light and clarity, the wholeness and wholesomeness of Dionysus and the frenzied Dionysian experience. Socratic thought, said Nietzsche, was the source of Christian morality, in other words of the weakness and degradation at the roots of the Christian civilization... certain extinction. (Oswald Spengler, author of The Decline of the West, has been called “Nietzsche’s monkey”.) As the pathfinder of a new way Nietzsche thought of himself as an incarnation of the god Dionysus come to fight the shadow left by the dead Christian God, and as Zarathustra come to bring the new “evangel” of the superman. As Nietzsche saw it, the mind was part of a whole consisting of the... their gods and other supernatural beings to be. Nietzsche himself projected on to or within himself a being at times like Zarathustra, and in his ultimate crisis like what he supposed to be the god Dionysus. But trying to overpass the mind is a dangerous wager for human beings and must, for those who persevere, end in a consciousness as reported by the great yogis – or, if things go wrong, in madness ...
... That may be why it was reported that for three months in the year Apollo allowed Dionysus to work in his temple. Further, remembering that the supra-intellectual and the infra-intellectual are pole and pole of a single phenomenon of intuition we may guess a frequent if not constant contact between Apollo and Dionysus: a sign of it may be discerned in the physical disposition of the priestess during... peace and leisure and repose, of aesthetic emotion and intellectual contemplation, of logical order and philosophic calm" 1 and it would be incorrect to contrast "the restless masculine power of Dionysus and the quiet feminine beauty of Apollo". 2 Sri Aurobindo's Apollo cries to the Father of the Immortals: 3 "Zeus, I know that I fade; already the night is around me. Dusk she extends ...
... One of the most respected Greek leaders in the Trojan war. Dionaean: An epithet of Aphrodite Dionysus Attic cup, c. 480 BC Dione: Original consort of Zeus, supplanted by Hera, and mother of Aphrodite according to Homer. Dionysus: In origin Dionysus was simply the god of wine; afterwards he became god of vegetation and warm moisture; then he appeared as the ...
... 2 writes: "The earliest historical record to mention the worship of Śiva is that of Megasthenes, the Greek envoy at Pātaliputra about 300 B.C. He describes two Indian deities under the names of Dionysus and Herakles, generally identified with Śiva and Krishna respectively. Patanjali in the second century B.C. refers in his Mahābhāshya to Śivabhāgavatas as also to images of Śiva and Skanda which... Megasthenes and therefore with the Mauryas in the conventional chronology give us Brahmā and Indra as the main gods worshipped whereas the Greek ambassador reports Śiva and Krishna under the names of Dionysus and Heracles as receiving the greatest share of popular adoration. Instead of separating the Mauryas from Megasthenes and thinking Brahma and Indra natural to the religious denominations enumerated ...
... 449-50; denarii, 450-52; dīnara, 450-52.602; 'eagles', 264; 'owls', 263. 264 cowries used as, 45; clothing of Guptas and Kushānas as shown on. 447; image of Ardochsho on. 439, 440-47, 603; image of Dionysus on, 438; image of Lakshmi on, 439-40; Jogalthembi Page 625 hoard, 469; Lichchhavis, their relation with the Guptas as shown by, 442 Cosmas... dīnāra, 450ff., 602 Diodorus.81, 100, 114, 115. 117, 153-7, 161-3, 169, 173, 175, 177. 184-6, 217, 261; of Bactria, 236-37; Siculus, 237, 238 Dionysius, 226.434, 593 Dionysus, 61, 62.65, 66, 67, 71, 78-90, 92, 93, 95, 111, 119, 223, 243, 260, 261, 579, 580 Dipavamsa, 33.36, 259, 366, 382 Divakar, H. R., 513 Divyāvadāna, 205. 423 Drangiana ...
... 169, 176,219 -Inferno, 53, 60n., 149, 169n -Paradiso, 53, 71, 149 Danton, 103 Delille, 85 Denmark,175 Descartes, 286 Dhammapada, 279n Diocles, 108, 109n Dionysus, 182-3 Dirghatama, 162-6 Discabolo, 170 Donne, 74, 80 -Divine Poems, 80 ln -"Annvnciation", 81n -"The Litanie", 80n -The Progress qf the Soule, 80n Douve,217... 73, 114, 117-18, 12In., 145, 149, 166, 180, 235, 239n., 274 Gloucester, 171-3 Goethe, 71, 88, 135-6, 138-9 Graves, Robert, 180, 182,218 -New Poems 1962, l80n -"The Ambrosia of Dionysus & Semele", 180n., 183n Greece, 73, 193-4, 196n., 281 Gupta, Atul, 234 Page 372 HALL, JOHN, 68n -"To His Tutor", 68n Hamlet, 185 Hardy, Thomas, 71, 88 ...
... me. His account of how the year 0 got neglected in the current dating system is quite credible - in fact, it is the only one that offers an explanation of the widely accepted silliness of Dionysus Exiguous - Dionysus the Shorty - in the Dark Ages. The zero of Hindu mathematics had not come as yet to the West. Hence the Shorty's anomaly of 1 A.D. being preceded by 1 B.C. But why was the natural mistake ...
... Greek gods were the counterparts of the Egyptian gods. “In the Egyptian language”, he writes, “Apollo is called Horus, Demeter Isis, Artemis Bubastis”. Neith is identified with Athena, Osiris with Dionysus, Hathor with Aphrodite, Ammon with Zeus, and so on. 5 In the present context more need not be said about this fascinating topic. Its importance will be clear because it erodes another foundation ...
... represent in classical mythology psychical functions, but were originally Nature gods, Athena probably a dawn goddess. I contend that Usha in the Veda shows us this transmutation in its commencement. Dionysus the wine-god was intimately connected with the Mysteries; I assign a similar role to Soma, the wine-god of the Vedas. But the question is whether there is anything to show that there was actually ...
... be."57 Notes and References Plato, The Seventh Letter. Silenus - In Greek mythology, Silenus was considered to be the tutor and faithful companion of the wine-god Dionysus'. He was bald, and fat with thick lips and a squat nose, and had the legs of a human and when intoxicated was said to possess special knowledge and the powers of prophesy. Plato, Symposium ...
... Much of what is known as aesthetic or artistic creation derives its spirit from this sphere. Many of the gods of beauty and delight are denizens of this heaven. Gandharvas and Kinnaras are here, Dionysus and even Apollo perhaps (at least in their mythological aspect—in their occult reality they properly belong to the Overmind which is the own home of the gods), many of the angels, seraphs and cherubs ...
... Much of what is known as aesthetic or artistic creation derives its spirit from this sphere. Many of the gods of beauty and delight are denizens of this heaven. Gandhar-vas and Kinnaras are here, Dionysus and even Apollo perhaps (at least in their mythological aspect—in their occult reality they properly belong to the Overmind which is the Page 47 own home of the gods), many of the ...
... Danege1d, 117 Dante, l8ln., 203, 209 – Divina Commedia, 181n. – Irifemo, 181n. Danton, 94 Da Vinci, Leonardo, 210 Debussy, 427 Devas, 253 Dhammapada , the, 9n., 159 Dionysus, 47 Dirghatamas, 44 Page 431 Diti,46 Durga, 98 EGYPT, 70, 133, 192, 199-200,419 Einstein, 274 England, 198 Esau, 397 Eucharist, 130 Europe, 272 ...
... higher part of the consciousness, going in quest of the lost lower part that has entered the profundities of Matter. Basing himself on Thomas Taylor's Dissertation upon the Mysteries of Eleusis and Dionysus (c. 1790) over and above Porphyry's Cave of the Nymphs published in English in 1788 in the Second Volume of Taylor's translation of Proclus's Mathemathical Commentaries, Blake does not make the ...
... Demogorgon, 23,240 Desire, 70,158 deus absconditus, 28 Devil, 44 "devouring fire", 74,75 "devouring flame", 74,75,169 Dissertation upon the Mysteries of Eleusis and Dionysus, 134 "Divine Humanity", 4,70,146,152, 156,216 "Divine Similitude", 84,97,118,265 "Divine Vision, The", 157,161,162, 167 Divine Vision, The, 53 fn. 2,146 fn. 36, 244 ...
... who rallied the Parthians, the Chorasmians and the Hycranians who live in the areas bordering the Caspian sea; who climbed the Caucasus; who crossed the Oxus, the Liaxarte and the Indus — that only Dionysus had reached before him; who crossed the Hydaspes and the Acesines, and who crossed the Gedrosia desert which no one had crossed before him at the head of an army, and whose fleet has opened the shipping ...
... Buddhist Period 82 C Caryatides 35 Chandidasa 82, 84 Chinese Puzzle 71 Coleridge 103 Cyclopian 48 D Dane 23 Dante 17, 27, 79 Denmark 25 Dionysus 34, 35 Dirghatama 8, 10, 11, 13, 14 Discabolo 18 Douve 77 Dr. Zhivago 38, 40, 42 Dryad 32 Duncan 19 Durga 31 Dyaus 34 E Eliot, T.S. 47, 52, 53 ...
... of one or other of its levels but the total transcendence to an altogether different status and the transmutation of humanity in the mould of that status—not a Nietzschean Titan nor a Bergsonian Dionysus but the tranquil vision and delight and dynamism of the Spirit—the incarnation of a godhead. Page 76 ...
... Much of what is known as aesthetic or artistic creation derives its spirit from this sphere. Many of the gods of beauty and delight are denizens of this heaven. Gandharvas and Kinnaras are here, Dionysus and even Apollo perhaps (at least in their mythological aspect-in their occult reality they properly belong to the Overmind which is the own home of the gods), many of the angels, seraphs and cherubs ...
... credo runs in this wise: Nightingales, Anangke, a sunset or the meanest flower Were formerly the potentiates of poetry, But now what have they to do with one another With Dionysus or with me? Microscopic anatomy of ephemerides, Power-house stacks, girder-ribs, provide a crude base; But man is what he eats, and they are not bred Flesh of our flesh ...
... of one or other of its levels but the total transcendence to an altogether different status and the transmutation of humanity in the mould of that status-not a Nietzschean Titan nor a Bergsonian Dionysus but the tranquil vision and delight and dynamism of the Spirit-the incarnation of a god-head. Page 21 ...
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