slug: shrines/dionysos
translates: shrines/dionysos
lang: en
title: To Dionyſos
description: "Hail, Bacchos Dionyſos Zagreus, the Falſe Man, the Liberator!"
thumbnail: "/shrines/dionysos/Simeon_Solomon_Bacchus.gif"
thumbnailAlt: "A painting of Dionysos, holding a stalk of grapes."
pageCreated: "2020-04-02"
pageUpdated: "2023-08-21"
extends ../shrine.pug
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h1 In honour of Dionyſos
ul.epithets
li Bacchos Dionysos
li Dionysos Zagreus
li Dionysos Pseudanor
li Dionysos Eleutherios
ul.epithets
li Confidence in chaos
li He who returned from death
li Protector of thoſe betwixt the ſexes
li Liberator from anxieties
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img.framed.idol(src=qua("Simeon_Solomon_Bacchus.gif") alt="A painting of Dionysos, holding a stalk of grapes.")
img.framed.idol(src=qua("bacchus and ariadne.gif") alt="A painting of Dionysos, trailled by a herd of revellers and satyrs.")
hr
img.framed(src=qua("confidence.gif") alt="A packed concert bathed in purple light.")
.splash Bringing confidence in #[span.theonym Bacchanalian] chaos
hr
img.framed(src=qua("grapes.gif") alt="Bunches of grapes on a vine.")
img.framed.idol(src=qua("mule.jpg") alt="Dionysos riding on the back of a mule.")
hr
ul.splash.music
li: a(href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3XW6NLILqo") The Perfect Kiſs
li: a(href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5uWRjFsGc") Tubthumping
li: a(href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCsyXSr7u-Q") Higher
.splash The Orphic hymn to
span.theonym Dionysos
.bilingual-poem
p
span(lang="grc")
| Κικλήσκω
span.theonym Διόνυσον
| ἐρίβρομον, εὐαστῆρα,
span(lang="grc-Latn")
| Cicléſcō
span.theonym Diónyſon
| eríbromon, euaſtē̂ra,
span(lang="en-GB")
span.theonym Dionysos
| i call, loud and divine; fanatic God, a two-fold ſhape is Thine:
p
span(lang="grc")
| πρωτόγονον, διφυῆ, τρίγονον,
span.theonym Βακχεῖον
| Ἄνακτα,
span(lang="grc-Latn")
| protógonon, diphyē̂, trígonon,
span.theonym Baccheīon
| Ánacta,
span(lang="en-GB")
| Thy various names and attributes i ſing, O, firſt-born, thrice begotten,
span.theonym Bacchic
| King:
p
span(lang="grc") ἄγριον, ἄρρητον, κρύφιον, δικέρωτα, δίμορφον,
span(lang="grc-Latn") ágrion, árrēton, crýphion, dicérōta, dímorphon,
span(lang="en-GB")
| Rural, ineffable, two-formed, obſcure, two-horned, with ivy crowned, and #[i euion] pure.
p
span(lang="grc") κισσόβρυον, ταυρωπόν, ἀρήϊον, εὔϊον, ἁγνόν,
span(lang="grc-Latn") cisſóbryon, taurōpón, arḗïon, eúïon, hagnón,
span(lang="en-GB") Bull-faced and martial, Bearer of the vine, endowed with counſel prudent and Divine:
p
span(lang="grc") ὠμάδιον, τριετῆ, βοτρυοτρόφον, ἐρνεσίπεπλον.
span(lang="grc-Latn") ōmádion, trietē̂, botryotrópohon, ernesípeplon.
p
span(lang="grc")
| Εὐβουλεῦ, πολύβουλε,
span.theonym Διὸς
| καὶ
span.theonym Περσεφονείης
span(lang="grc-Latn")
| Eubouleû, polýboule,
span.theonym Dios
| cæ
span.theonym Persephoneíēs
span(lang="en-GB")
| Triennial, whom the leaves of vines adorn; of
span.theonym Zeus
| and
span.theonym Persephone
| , occultly born.
p
span(lang="grc") ἀρρήτοις λέκτροισι τεκνωθείς, ἄμβροτε Δαῖμον·
span(lang="grc-Latn") arrḗtois léctroiſi tecnōtheís, ámbrote Dæ̂mon;
p
span(lang="grc") κλῦθι μάκαρ φωνῆς, ἡδὺς δ’ ἐπίπνευσον ἐνηής,
span(lang="grc-Latn") clŷthi mácar phōnēs, hēdys d’ epípneuſon enēḗs,
span(lang="en-GB") Immortal Dæmon, hear my ſuppliant voice, give me in blameleſs plenty to rejoice;
p
span(lang="grc") εὐμενὲς ἦτορ ἔχων, σὺν ἐυζώνοισι τιθήναις.
span(lang="grc-Latn") eumenés ē̂tor échōn, syn euzṓnoiſi tithḗnæs.
span(lang="en-GB") And listen gracious to my myſtic prayer, ſurrounded with Thy choir of nurſes fair.
hr
p.centre
| Devotees may alſo wiſh to viſit the
a.theonym(href="https://www.hermeticfellowship.org/Dionysion/") Dionysion
| , a collection of links elſewhere put together in His honour. Be adviſed, though, that it hasn’t been updated in eighteen years, and thus many of the links ſadly no longer point to their intended deſtinations.