The ancient sources connect the
Thracian land with the birth of Dionysus, the god of wine. Herodotus mentions
this deity as a member of the Thracian pantheon. In “Odysseus” the tsar
Maron is a son or grandson of this god. He taught people how to make wine
from grapes.
Dionysus is the son of Zeus and Persephone and according to the translation from Greek means son of the sky and earth. Zeus hid Dionysus in order to save him from the rage of his wife Hera. The titans – the old gods allured the child with toys, caught him and tore him into seven pieces. After that they cooked him but made a mistake in the order of the offering and Zeus punished them – they were struck by his lightening.
Only the heart of the little Dionysus left and Zeus sewed it in his thigh to give birth to him again. The gods made the people out of the ashes that remained after the encounter with the titans. That’s why their nature has two sides: on one side Dionysus’s blood flows in their veins and on the other they have the flesh of the blasphemers. When drinking wine the ancient people believed that then Dionysus came to them, that was the god himself – killed by violence by the titans but reborn in the wine.
When he came from Asia Minor in Europe with his “army” of maenads the god met the tsar of the local Thracian tribe Likurg and formed an alliance with him. But when he got asleep the tsar attacked Dionysus, killed many of his people and the young god hardly saved himself from death. The Thracian even dared to attack his wet-nurse but Dionysus punished him by implanting craziness in him and made him self castrate as thinking that he actually cut a vine. There is a response of this myth in the Bulgarian viticultural holiday of Trifon Zarezan – saint Trifon cut his nose (euphemism of castration).
After removing the guilty tsar, Dionysus founded the new Thracian dynasty. Orpheus comes from the third stock of this genealogical line.
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Dionysus is the son of Zeus and Persephone and according to the translation from Greek means son of the sky and earth. Zeus hid Dionysus in order to save him from the rage of his wife Hera. The titans – the old gods allured the child with toys, caught him and tore him into seven pieces. After that they cooked him but made a mistake in the order of the offering and Zeus punished them – they were struck by his lightening.
Only the heart of the little Dionysus left and Zeus sewed it in his thigh to give birth to him again. The gods made the people out of the ashes that remained after the encounter with the titans. That’s why their nature has two sides: on one side Dionysus’s blood flows in their veins and on the other they have the flesh of the blasphemers. When drinking wine the ancient people believed that then Dionysus came to them, that was the god himself – killed by violence by the titans but reborn in the wine.
When he came from Asia Minor in Europe with his “army” of maenads the god met the tsar of the local Thracian tribe Likurg and formed an alliance with him. But when he got asleep the tsar attacked Dionysus, killed many of his people and the young god hardly saved himself from death. The Thracian even dared to attack his wet-nurse but Dionysus punished him by implanting craziness in him and made him self castrate as thinking that he actually cut a vine. There is a response of this myth in the Bulgarian viticultural holiday of Trifon Zarezan – saint Trifon cut his nose (euphemism of castration).
After removing the guilty tsar, Dionysus founded the new Thracian dynasty. Orpheus comes from the third stock of this genealogical line.
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