Blessing: The blessings of Dionysos are joy and passion, madness and prophecy, ecstacy and freedom. Dionysian freedom is beyond good and evil: it takes precedent over law, custom, inhibition or morality. In the worship of Dionysos, we discover who we really are, beneath all the masks and lies and compromises that society demands of us. Dionysos dissolves all boundaries and destroys every falsehood. In the ecstatic state, we feel ourselves to be whole, to be one with all of the other worshippers, with the earth and the Gods. We utter prophecy, since we are no longer constrained by our small minds. We perform miracles, since the laws of nature no longer apply. We touch the face of God, and he touches us.
Epithets: Agrios (The Wild One), Aigobolos (The Goatslayer), Aktaios (He of the Seacoast), Anax Bakcheios (Bacchic Lord), Anax Agreus (Lord Hunter), Antheus (The Blossoming), Anthroporraistes (The Render of Humans), Areion (War-like), Arretos (The Ineffable), Arsenothelys (the Man-Womanly), Auxites (The Grower), Axios Tauros (The Worthy Bull), Bakcheios (The Bacchic One), Bakchos (Raving), Bassareus (The Fox-God), Botryophoros (Bearer of Clusters of Grapes), Boukeros (The Bull-horned One), Bromios (He Who Roars), Bythios (The Deep), Charidotes (The Giver of Grace), Choreutes (The Dancer), Choroplekes (The Danceweaving One), Chthonios (He of the Underworld), Dendrites (The Tree God), Dikerotes (The Two-horned One), Dimeter (He of Two Mothers), Dimorphos (The Two-Formed One), Dissotokos (Doubly Born), Dithyrambos (Hymned by the Dithyramb), Eiraphiotes (The In-Sewn One), Ekstatophoros (The Bringer of Ecstasy), Eleuthereus (The Emancipator), Enorches (the Betesticled), Eriphos (Young Kid), Eribromios (The Loud Roarer), Euanthes (The Fair Blossoming One), Euaster (He Who Shouts Eua), Eubouleus (The Good Counselor), Euios (The Reveler), Gethosynos (The Joyful), Gigantophonos (Giant-Slayer), Gynnis (Womanish), Hagnos (The Pure, Holy One), Iakchos (The Cryer at Eleusis), Iatros (The Healer), Kissobryos (The Ivy-Wrapped One), Kissokomes (The Ivy-Crowned One), Kissos (Ivy), Korymbophoros (The Cluster-laden), Kryphios (The Hidden One), Lampter (Light-bringer), Lenaios (He of the Wine-press), Liknites (He of the Winnowing Fan Cradle), Limnaios (He of the Marsh), Lyaios (Bringer of Freedom), Lyseus (Liberator), Mainomenos (The Maddened One), Makar (Blessed One), Manikos (The Manic One), Mantis (The Diviner), Meilichios (The Gentle One), Melanaigis (He of the Black Goatskin), Morychos (The Dark One), Nebrodes (The Fawn-form One), Nyktelios (He of the Night), Nyktipolos (The Night-Stalker), Nysios (He of Nysa), Oiketor (The Indweller), Omadios (He of the Raw Feast), Palaios (The Ancient One), Perikionios (He Who is Entwined Around the Pillars), Petempamenti (He who is in the Underworld), Phanes (The Illuminator), Polygethes (Bringer of Many Joys), Polymorphos (He of the Many Forms), Polyonomos (The Many-Named One), Protogonos (The Firstborn), Skeptouchos (Sceptre-Bearer), Soter (Saviour), Sykites (He of the Fig-Tree), Taurokeros Theos (Bull-horned God), Taurophagos (Devourer of the Bull), Tauropon (The Bull-faced One), Teletarches (Lord of Initiation), Thyonidas (Son of Thyone), Thyrsophoros (The Thyrsos-Bearer), Trieterikos (The Biennial One), Trigonos (The Thriceborn), Zagreus (Great Hunter), Zatheos (The Very Holy), Zoophoros (Life Bringer)
Equated With:Osiris, Serapis, Apis, Set, Adonis, Antinous, Yahweh, Priapus, Ba¡¯al, Siva, Katagarma, Ptolemy IV, Ptolemy XII, Marcus Antonius, Attalos.
Associations: thyrsos, mask, nebrix, kantharos, phallos, panther, goat, snake, bull, fox, musk, civet, frankincense, storax, ivy, grapes, pine, fig, wine, honey, Indian hemp, orchis root, thistle, all wild and domestic trees, black diamond
Festivals:
Alexandrian Dionysia (13 Artemisios)
Anthesteria (11-13 Dystros)
Eleusinia (Gorpiaios 15)
Kunègia (6 Xanthikos)
Katallageia (5-6 Audēnaios)
Lagunophoria (11 Tybi)
Lampteria (November 14)
Festival of the Neoi Dionysoi (Nov 28)
Festival of the Valley (7 Payni)
Ptolemaeia (Month of Ptolemaios)
Ways to honor: Drink wine. Attend theater. Dance. Sing. Learn a form of divination. Explore madness. Be passionate. Be creative. Enjoy every moment of living — even the harsh and unpleasant ones. Donate your time or money to support the theater, dance companies, and musical arts.
See also Written in Wine, a devotional anthology in honor of Dionysus, published by Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
Ancient Texts:
Dithyramb to Dionysus by Pindar
Excerpt from Antigone by Sophocles
Excerpt from The Cretans by Euripides
Excerpt from The Ecclesiastical History by Hermias Sozomen
Excerpt from Fabulae by Hyginus
Excerpt from The Frogs by Aristophanes
Excerpts from Life of Antony by Plutarch
Excerpts from The Histories by Herodotus
Fragment of a Homeric Hymn (To Dionysus)
Homeric Hymn VII (To Dionysus)
Homeric Hymn XXVI (To Dionysus)
Orphic Hymn XXX (To Dionysus)
Orphic Hymn XLV (To Dionysus)
Orphic Hymn XLVI (To Liknites)
Orphic Hymn XLVII (To Perikionios)
Orphic Hymn L (To Lusios-Lenaios)
Orphic Hymn LII (To the God of Triennial Feasts)
Orphic Hymn LIII (To the God of Annual Feasts)
Paian to Dionysus by Philodamos
Request to Dionysus by Anakreon
Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern Texts: Forthcoming
Modern Texts:
Aigobolos by Sara Sutterfield Winn
Ampelia by Reverend Allyson Szabo
Bacchanal by Lupercus Pagani
Bacchic Prayer by Calamus
Bacchic Song by Amanda Aremisia Forrester
Beautiful Savage God by Jim Wise
Bythios by Sara Sutterfield Winn
Dancing With Dionysus by Lykeia
Dionysus (I) by Diotima Sophia
Dionysus (II) by Heather Cox
Dionysus (III) by Shameka
Dionysus and Apollo by Theokleia
Dionysus and Hermes by P Sufenas Virius Lupus
Dionysus, Apollon and the Phoinix by Lykeia
Dionysus (Big Bull Sacrifice) by Theokleia
Dionysus’ Sorrow by P Sufenas Virius Lupus
Eros-Dionysus by Calamus
Force of Nature by Reverend Allyson Szabo
For Dionysus (I) by Heather Cox
For Dionysus (II) by Dan McElwain
Hail to the Twice-Born by Diotima Sophia
Hymn to Bright-Eyed Dionysus by Lykeia
A Hymn to Dionysus Meilikhios by Nyktipolos
In Praise of Wine by Chaya
The Joyous Anthesteria by Reverend Allyson Szabo
Kryphios by Sara Sutterfield Winn
Lady Pentheus by Jim Wise
Libation by Diotima Sophia
Maenad by Diotima Sophia
Missionary Faith by Jim Wise
Removing the Masks by Heather Cox
Revel by Reverend Allyson Szabo
Satyrs’ Songs by Jim Wise
To Dionysus by Amanda Aremisia Forrester
To Dionysus, After Reading Walt Whitman by Brandon
To Dionysus the Bull by Lykeia
(untitled) by Rebecca Buchanan
The Welcome of Dionysus by Lykeia
Who Is This Wife of Dionysus? by Amanda Aremisia Forrester
Wine for Dionysus by Brandon
Winepress by Jim Wise
You’re Out There Today by Jim Wise
Zagreus by Chaya
Festivals and Rituals:
Articles:
Artemis and Dionysus: Antithesis and Synthesis by Thista Minai
Culture From Counter-Culture: Dionysian Drama and Hellenism by Jeremy J Baer
Interview with Andrew Dalby: Author Bacchus: A Biography by Jeremy J Baer
Links:
Written In Wine: A Devotional Anthology for Dionysus
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