Dionysos Quotes

“as a god of liberation and revelry, Dionysos’ stage was certainly the place for questioning the ‘status quo’, and experimenting with social boundaries.”
― Vikki Bramshaw, Dionysos: Exciter to Frenzy: A study of the God Dionysos: history, myth and lore

“early Dionysians invited ghosts and spirits to their springtime celebrations.”
― Vikki Bramshaw, Dionysos: Exciter to Frenzy: A study of the God Dionysos: history, myth and lore

“Reflecting his dual nature, the Dionysian rites contained within them the message of balance and opposition - dismemberment and rejuvenation, descent and return, imprisonment and liberation, love and loss; mysteries celebrated by his followers which within the moment of ritual trance, unmasked themselves to reveal their names to be life and death.[69] And like Dionysos, his followers learnt to traverse the worlds.”
― Vikki Bramshaw, Dionysos: Exciter to Frenzy: A study of the God Dionysos: history, myth and lore

“Dionysos I call loud-sounding and divine, inspiring God, a two-fold shape is thine; thy various names and attributes I sing, O’ firstborn, thrice begotten, Bacchaen King. Rural, ineffable, two-formed, obscure, two-horned, ivy-crowned, and Euion pure. Bull faced and martial, bearer of the vine, endued with counsel prudent and divine: Eubouleus, whom the leaves of vines adorn … hear my voice O’ lord ! Come blessed Dionysos, begot from thunder, Bacchus famed. Bassaros God, of universal might, whom swords and blood and sacred rage delight … come with much rejoicing mind.”[”
― Vikki Bramshaw, Dionysos: Exciter to Frenzy: A study of the God Dionysos: history, myth and lore

“there is no part of us that is not of the gods!”
― Vikki Bramshaw, Dionysos: Exciter to Frenzy: A study of the God Dionysos: history, myth and lore