🍇 For Dionysus 🍇

A little online altar for Dionysus

[rockyracetrack]

Dionysus doodles 🍇🍷🐆🎭

[thewitchintherivervalley]

hey hi hello can you reblog this if you’re a trans-inclusive witchcraft or paganism blog i am fighting for my LIFE out here

[dionysianfreak]

i haven’t seen a cis person in months

[gayestcowboy]

non sexual nudity is fantastic and should not be treated like evil incarnate because it’s a basic part of human existence but don’t forget that sexual nudity is also rad as hell

[thoodleoo]

everyone at this bacchic ritual wants me carnally

[bacchant-of-dionysus]

Being a devotee of Dionysus is punk because:

Loving immigrants is punk

Getting hammered is punk

Rebellion against authority is punk

Good music is punk

Dancing wildly is punk

Tearing your enemies limb from limb is punk

Political theatre is punk

Not giving a fuck is punk

Being trans and loving trans people is punk

Bisexuality is punk

Polyamory is punk

Subverting the social order is punk

Also I reckon Dionysus would rock some patch pants and a leather jacket and docs and a ton of piercings. So there’s that.

[kukoshka]

Dionysus, commission for @whoreofdixnysus <3

[tractim]

Dionysus with the head of Pentheus! I couldn’t decide which version to post, so have both of them 🎭

[rockyracetrack]

Making designs for deities, entities, and mythological figures that are a part of my practice as a Pagan

🧵Lady Ariadne, Princess of Crete 🧵

My design for Lady Ariadne was created using divination and my extremely limited knowledge of ancient Minoan culture, which I need to set aside some time to learn more about. I was unable to do further research while working on this like I had wanted to, cuz the reconnection of our internet was delayed another day, so for color palette I used divination and pulled some inspiration from the portrait of her in the game Hades, as I remember her being fond of it. This process ended up mostly just being a lot of trial and error of me sketching and then using my pendulum to ask if she was content with it.

I think this design is an improvement upon my previous design for her, which I made in my sketchbook back in like April using the same process, but was less thorough since it wasn't digital. And it is CERTAINLY an improvement upon that time I drew her with Dionysus back in December, which is still floating around here on Tumblr somewhere. No research or heavy thought went into her design for that piece, and while it was cute, it was wildly inaccurate.

Ariadne and I met through that piece, I had felt a presence watching me while I drew that was not Dionysus and she's been around ever since. During my beginner research of Dionysus, I had spent a long time learning about her and their relationship, and was always talking about my findings to my friend. I was always trying to portray them as a partnership and include her when I would draw or talk about him, and I guess that must have intrigued her.

Most of our bonding has been through art and us having divination sessions like this where I try to learn how to better portray her, which she always seems happy to do. Her energy is always a pleasant one to be around and I feel very lucky to have her in my practice.

[bacchant-of-dionysus]

Dionysus.

Even the word is fragmented on my tongue, like the remnants of a shattered vase.

Wine-dark blood pools and bursts forth in springs within my mind, curdling with milk and honey.

My thyrsus charged with electricity, I brandish it like a spear.

DIONYSUS.

I see him in the crackling flame, in the flickering half-light of the altar, in the visions that plague my closed eyelids.

He is watching me. The hands that rests on my shoulder could snap my neck and I’m drowning in the sway he holds over me.

He flips a coin and it lands, face up, in the palm of his hand. A toothy grin etches itself across his face, like a crack in a theatre mask.

He is always smiling. In rage, in ecstasy, in jealously, in love.

Always smiling.

Dionysus.

[tractim]

I will always prefer to draw Dionysus with dark hair but for Euripides I can make an exception 

[hellenicrisis]

Dionysus

– My Favourite Epithets

Areion - 'Warlike'

Boukeros - 'The bull-horned one'

Bromios - 'He who roars'

Choreutes - 'The dancer'

Dikerotes - 'The two-horned one'

Dithyrambos - 'Hymned by the Dithyramb'

Euanthes - 'The fair blossoming one'

Euios - 'The reveler'

Gethosynos - 'The joyful'

Gynnis - 'Womanish'

Intonsus - 'Unshorn', 'of eternal youth'

Kissokomes - 'The ivy-crowned one'

Kryphios - 'The hidden one'

Lampter - 'Light-bringer'

Lyseus - 'The liberator'

Mainomenos - 'The maddened one'

Manikos - 'The manic one'

Meilichios - 'The gentle one'

Melanaigis - 'He of the black goatskin'

Nyktelios - 'He of the night'

Perikionios - 'He who is entwined around the pillars'

Phleon - 'Giver of plenty'

Psilas - 'Giver of wings'

[mermaidenmystic]

Dionysus and Sea Nymphs ~ 1853 ~ Sir Joseph Noel Paton (Scottish, 1821-1900)

[zoesupreme]

Penis friday let's bust a nut out there folks

[medealtar]

hedonism aesthetic, another favourite 🍷

[lemons-archive]

This is a cock-positive space. I don't wanna see ANY hate on small dicks or large dicks or trans dicks or Tdicks or surgically-made dicks or any other kind of dick. I'm on my knees for you. Your dick is just fine and it's worthy of you loving it if you want a dick. 🥰🥰🥰🥰

[goldring]

Pair of earrings in the form of vines, enameled gold mounted with amethysts, France, about 1840-50.

[flora-file]

sour grapes (by flora-file)

cabernet sauvignon