Dionysus is the god of wine, drunkenness, fertility, emotionality, and chaos. Dionysian art indulges in excess, ecstatic elevation, altered states. His worshippers famously included the maenads, wild women who would gather secretly at night in the woods for the original bacchanalia, alcohol- and drug-fueled parties rather like contemporary raves, only with a much darker edge, more nudity, and occasional cannibalism.
