The Tragic Duality of Dionysus Producing the Great Health
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 Black Vines of Dionysus
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....
Dionysus Dendrites: The Filamentous God of the World Wide Fungal Web
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...
The Devil’s Skirt and Dirty Aztec Priests
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...
A Demiurge Democracy With Demagogues Ruling the Demography
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...About the Gnostic Warrior
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