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𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐧𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬.

[dionysusmybeloved]

• Hello, my name's Ry and I'm a hellenic polytheist / pagan.

• I'm gay, genderfluid, and use he / him pronouns.

• I am a worshipper of and devoted to Dionysus, but I have been thinking about branching out and worshipping Apollo and Aphrodite.

• I've made this blog as a way to connect myself with Hellenism, to seek further knowledge about the Theoi, and just overall share my own knowledge and experiences with as many people as I can.

• I'm studying classics in my free time, so I wouldn't call myself an expert :>

• I'm also into philosophy and history, watched dead poets society and maurice (all time favorite movies), and I'm also into musicals!

My Resources: 📜

My Library:🍷

(user-box by @messywitch)

[luvlywitch7]

I think it'll always make me emotional whenever I think about how patient and understanding The Gods are. I'd like to think I'm still fairly new to the religion, and I've got much to learn, but i barely have any time on my hands, and when I do, I'm too tired to do anything. And I'm so, so grateful for their patience and understanding. They don't have to help me, they don't have to listen to me talk about my problems, but every time I come to them with something that seems so overwhelming i can't figure it out on my own, they always help.

I'm beyond grateful for them 💗

[ulstercycle]

the quickest laziest post-work dionysus sketch ... i'll clean this up and put more thought into a real design someday

[hyper-ionart]

Some dionysus (+ ampelos) sketches 🍇🍷🌱

[apollo-32]

Currently, I am at an excavation. In front of the barracks where we store our equipment, there is a bust of Apollo and he is referred to as the “Excavation God” that protects us Archaeologists— the patron god of excavations. I find this very wholesome and amusing and wanted to share it here as well.

Also, the bust has been at this site for years according to senior staff members.

[lasmishen]

The Bacchae

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One more art for the 24h city Dionysia thing on lofter but bro got banned for nude so I put it here.

[catcatalpa]

An artwork created for the 24h City Dionysia event💃🏻🔥🍇

[catcatalpa]

The design of Dionysus and some old art

[cyborgsheep]

Pentheus, the King of Thebes, was torn apart limb-from-limb (sparagmos) by his own mother, Agave, and her sisters in a Dionysian frenzy for defying the god Dionysus.

（I want to portray the terrifying side of Dionysus!)

[thegodwhocums]

Bull-god, drunk god, god of women and transvestites, giver of ecstasy, master of dance, lord of the emotions—such were the various masks worn by the daimon whose lineage went back to ancient Minoan civilization. In his myths and rituals, Dionysos embodied both a feeling for the living continuities of nature and a concept of the human personality as an organism deeply rooted in the nonrational forces of the cosmos. Serving as the focus for the spiritual needs of Greece's underclasses, he became the god that the patriarchal establishment could neither accept nor eliminate. And so Dionysos represented the return of the repressed in several senses: return of the religious needs of the lower classes, return of the demands of the nonrational part of the self, and return of the Minoan feeling for the living unity of nature. And so in turn he threatened several repressors: the aristocracy of well-to-do male citizens, the domination of intellect over emotion, the alienated ethos of the city-state.

Arthur Evans, “The God of Ecstasy: Sex Roles and the Madness of Dionysos,” 1988

[dionysusmybeloved]

woops got busy but I'll start posting soon again lol

[thelemoncatwalk]

Dionysus from yesterday. I’ve changed it a bit because I didn’t like some of the shadows (especially around the lips) but I didn’t take a new photo.

[oclioneo]

Dionysus drawing 🍇

(Edit: I have been informed that this is actually Antinous dressed as Dionysus. Sorry for any confusion 😕)

[as-the-sun-art]

Eros— I love painting him 💘

[pink-noah]

Aphrodite Greek goddess of love, beauty, passion, and procreation ❤️

[beyondessence]

Summoning words

Dionysus, lord of descent,

rejected son, exiled god,

you were denied, you were torn apart,

your name was cast out, your existence suppressed,

yet you never vanished.

You awaken between blood and wine,

you return through frenzy and desire,

you spread in every place that was forced into silence,

you are not a god that was permitted,

you are the part of the world that is feared and cannot be erased.

I call upon you—

in the name of rupture,

in the name of descent,

in the name of all that breaks and crosses every boundary,

descend.

Release me from restraint,

carry me beyond the limit,

let me enter the ecstasy that stands beyond reason,

let all suppression collapse,

let perception burn to its furthest edge,

let frenzy consume fear,

let ecstasy cover pain,

let me become a part of you,

and complete myself within the loss of control,

you are not here to be understood,

you are not here to be forgiven,

you are here to make the world pay its due.

Descend, Dionysus.

Let them remember—

you never belonged to them.

[ateazure]

"and the stars look very different today..."