Part III: Dionysos and the Ptolemies

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Part II: Dionysos and Kingship

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Part I: Setting the stage – the philosophy of Sacred Kingship

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Greco-Egyptian quote(s) of the day #21

..."The poet is a light and winged and sacred thing, unable to create poetry unless he is first inspired by the god and out of his wits, with no reason in him any longer." - Plato, Ion 534b "He who arrives .... "Bacchus, by you I swear, I shall bear your boldness. Lead on, begin the revel. You are a god: govern a mortal heart. Born in the flame you love the flame love has; and again bring me, your ...

Some oddness, to keep your weekend lively

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I'm a bad mother-father, mother-father!

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Greek God Face Off

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...set up throughout the country in Greek, Demotic, and Hieroglyphs. Clearly, then, ...playing up her connections with the Greek Demeter and developing proper mysteries for... “Afrocentric” school of Egyptology. The god who deserves an even more honored..., in their strong association with Dionysos – who himself united mortal and divine... the pressure of incarnating the god Dionysos. This is, perhaps, not too...

By his shining and his power she knew him...

...the play is that Dionysos, the young god, is bringing his...godhood. Thebes is ruled by Dionysos' cousin Pentheus, though their grandfather...mythology--he really gets around). Dionysos drives Cadmus' daughters and the...dash of the Joker in Dionysos, which I will agree is...his eventual transformation/seduction by Dionysos/the Stranger (or by the...or reflected, nature, of the Greek gods: when Pentheus goes mad...

Lenaia

... for supplies, and suddenly felt Dionysos very insistently guiding me towards ... the amethyst priestess necklace that Dionysos commissioned someone to make for...for libations, in front of Dionysos' shrine. sannion  insisted on taking...recited the Orphic Hymn in Greek that I know, and poured...idea was to awaken the god, bring Him back to life...another means of waking the god), and then took some time...