It's March 6th, 2009, and I don't think I've been here for a while....

After reading some of these entries, I'm realizing how some of it is actually kind of immature.  Well, naive.

I've realized now, there isn't anything tangible to uncover in the way of a single explanation for my dreams. (I say here a few times, that I'm getting "closer" to uncovering it, often saying that I'm not even sure what it is I'm searching for.)  I also know that I'm commenting on something that was written and compiled, a matter of a few months ago.  But this was really the start of it, I think.  The dream on October 8th.  

I think I just hate Tv, and I like to read and write.  During the writing of this blog, I thought that I'd come up with some kind of simple explanation as to why I have these dreams, with these particular dream-characters.   (They're always out of place, and always more lucid than their dream-environment), as well as how it's lead me on a path to an undiscovered ancestry.  Looking back, I thought it was all going somewhere.  Well, it wasn't, really.  I realize now, that during times of inspiration and insight, everything is interesting, and everything relates to everything else.  It can be quite an exciting world during those times.  It just depends on the moment of connection, and how clear the signal.

The first couple of blogs I wrote here were actually part of the dream-sync-research.  The later ones, are completely off-subject; and of their own phenomena.  Some of the others are simply historical clippings from found-articles.  (With citations of course) 

Friday, February 20, 2009

Dionysus

http://paganizingfaithofyeshua.netfirms.com/no_3_dionysis.htm

Dionysus is identified with many other savior-gods. Dionysus was also called Bacchus, Zagreus, Sabazius, Adonis, Antheus, Zalmoxis, Pentheus, Pan, Liber Pater, or "the Liberator." His emblem was the thyrsus, a phallic scepter tipped with a (1.)pine cone. His priestesses were the Maenads, or Baccharites, who celebrated his orgies with drunkenness, nakednesss, and sacramental feasting. The maenads, or bacchantes, were a group of female devotees who left their homes to roam the wilderness in ecstatic devotion to Dionysus. They wore fawn skins and were believed to possess occult powers.

Dionysus (2.)died each winter and was reborn in the spring.

Dionysus later hero-incarnation Orpheus, star of the popular Orphic Mysteries, was the same sacrificial god, torn to pieces by the Maenads. Proclus said, "Orpheus, because he was the principal in the Dionysian rites, is said to have suffered the same fate as the god" (Walker, The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, p. 237). Dionysus was hailed as "King of Kings and God of Gods." He was also the god-begotten, virgin-born Anointed One (Christos) whose mother seems to have been all three forms of the Triple Goddesss in his sacrificial Dendrites, "Young Man of the Tree." He was also a Horned God, with such forms as bull, goat, stag 

Dionysus is often presented as a wine-god.


  • First and most primitive, a king is killed and torn to pieces by the Maenads (priestesses) and cannibalized to provide both the earth and women's wombs with fructifying blood...his blood making a sin offering of the "wine" of his blood
  • A King surrogate in the form of a condemned criminal or a young man chosen by lot
  • Next an animal substitute for the man
  • Finally "flesh" and "blood" devoured in the form of bread and wine, the classical Dionysian sacrament at Eleusis

  • In the form of a golden shower (sun-worship) Zeus seduced Danae, who bore Perseus; in the form of a bull, he abducted Europa, who bore Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Sarpedon. By various amours and marriages, Zeus became the literal father of the Greek pantheon. And, last of all, Semele, daughter of Cadmus in Thebes, bore him Dionysus, the only child of a mortal ever to be recognized as an immortal god in the Greek pantheon (a godman).

    (note- Danae is great grandmother of Dionysis, and is the only link to his being half god)

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