Chthonia Episode 50
Dionysus (Part 1)
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Feature Image: Mary Harrsch, Closeup of Opus Vermiculatum Mosaic Pavement Depicting Dionysus Roman 3rd century CE [via Flickr, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)]
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Welcome to the 50th episode of Chthonia! This week we look at the mysterious figure of Dionysus, in the first of a two part podcast. Dionysus is the god of wine, an egalitarian deity who can be directly experienced through drinking wine. In this episode we look at the Homeric Dionysus, the one portrayed in the Homeric Hymns, and we will look at his connection to the Divine Feminine.
Source used in the podcast: Taylor-Perry, Rosemarie. God Who Comes: Dionysian Mysteries Reclaimed. Algora Publishing, 2003.
Music: Adapted from “Secret Door” by Anastasia Vronski, [CC 4.0]
URL: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Anastasia_Vronski/Estrangements_volume_2/09_-_Secret_Door
Copyright: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Hey @sororbrigid; congrats on the 50th episode. Dionysus is one of my favorite all-time deities, which I picked up from Nietzsche—though he created too much of a binary between Dionysus and Apollo for my philosophical taste.
I was aware (you made me aware, in an earlier piece) of the connection between Dionysus and Jesus Christ—but I didn’t know about the overlap with Shiva. That is an awesome triumvirate of mythic godmen there.
I hope you don’t mind, I added a custom image to the episode and added this to the gallery on the home page. We had the previous first piece up there for a while—Dionysus is an apropos figure, with the changing of the season, to bring new life to the page.
Hey Marco–thanks! Yeah, Nietzsche is a little too dualistic for my taste as well. Shiva was a bit surprising for me as well, but it does make sense. That’s fine with me if you change the image, I’ve been thinking it might be good to change the images on the other ones too, bit by bit, rather than just re-using the crow all the time.