The double face of the tragic hero known as Dionysus represents the dual nature of his persona of joy and suffering and life and death; a god known symbolically as “the spirit of fire and dew” who was “most terrible and most gentle to mortals” (Bacchae...
The ancient mythos surrounding the origins of Dionysis is that he had a double birth of fire and water. He was also strongly associated with cultivating vines (fertility) and the development from the juice of the black vine via its decaying grapes which we call wine....
In ancient Crete and Greece, the God Dionysus was the main deity whose tragic story and rituals reflect the awesome drama we know as birth, life, human duality, death, decay, and the great restoration of all beings. This tragedy in which the human with his lower...
Upon discovering the Aztecs (Mexica) in 1519, Hernán Cortés and his army of hardened 553 Spanish conquistadors were both amazed at the beauty and cleanliness of the city. (1) But their amazement soon turned to horror when they witnessed the sight of filthy priests...
Plato’s Demiurge is a “world-forming God,” and the universe is “filled with mortal organisms” at the center or inner being of all life ie: the microcosm which acts upon everything else. It is interesting to mention that modern science is proving that...
Plato, writing in approximately 360 BC is the first philosopher to bring forth the concept known primarily in Gnosticism as the Demiurge which was derived from the “Platonic theory of creation out of primordial matter.” His theory was described in his most...
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