DIONYSOS

ORIGIN Greek. God of wine and intoxication.

KNOWN PERIOD OF WORSHIP from circa 1500 BC and probably earlier through to Christianization circa AD 400.

SYNONYMS Deunysos; Zonnysos; LIBER, BACCHUS(Roman).

BACCHUS

ORIGIN Roman. God of wine and intoxication.

KNOWN PERIOD OFWORSHIP circa 400 BC to AD 400.

SYNONYMS LIBER; DIONYSOS (Greek).

CENTER(S) OF CULT throughout Roman world.

Dionysus

by Rachel Gross and Dale Grote

 
Dionysus, also commonly known by his Roman name Bacchus, appears to be a god who has two distinct origins.
On the one hand, Dionysus was the god of wine, agriculture, and fertility of nature, who is also the patron god of the Greek stage. On the other hand, Dionysus also represents the outstanding features of mystery religions, such as those practiced at Eleusis: ecstasy, personal delivery from the daily world through physical or spiritual intoxication, and initiation into secret rites. Scholars have long suspected that the god known as Dionysus is in fact a fusion of a local Greek nature god, and another more potent god imported rather late in Greek pre-history from Phrygia (the central area of modern day Turkey) or Thrace.

Alumina (Aluminum)

by Anja Heij

 
Aluminum is a very light and easy transformable metal, associated with the planet Neptune and the sign Pisces. In astrology Neptune has to do with fading away, dissolving, excarnation, anonymity. This excarnation can work out in a positive way (mysticism, visions, psychic abilities, spirituality, dreams, ecstasy, inspiration) but it can also bring about confusion, intoxication, poisoning, decadence, delusion, addiction, degeneration, deformation and decay: the material world looses its solidity and stability. Pisces ‘rules’ the feet.