What does Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, want from humans?
(originally answered at Quora.com) What does Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, want from humans? Since he has been divided(1) for the sake of reunion(2), (3) (4) and, as they say, “when at the bottom, the only way is up”,(5) (6) the lesson that Dionysus came to teach us is that we remember our divine origin. “Plato in the Cratylus says of this divinity “that he is the giver of wine; and that οιονος wine may most justly be denominated οιονους because it is accustomed to deprive those of intellect who possessed it before” Proclus on the Theology of Plato, Book VII, Chapter XXXIII Hence, let’s get sober. Notes: 1 - DIvided, i.e., dismembered by the Titans. Sparagmos (Ancient Greek: σπαραγμός, from σπαράσσω sparasso, "tear, rend, pull to pieces") is an act of rending, tearing apart, or mangling,[1] usually in a Dionysian context. In Dionysian rite as represented in myth and literature, a living animal, or sometimes e...