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Fresco from Pompeii depicting Dionysus discovering Ariadne asleep with Hypnos at her side (1st Century CE)

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I haven't been able to post a lot of art stuff lately so have an Ariadne I scribbled at work

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every now and then i think about this article that i read which traced the origins of Dionysos back through the ages. and apparently, He's one of the oldest deities known from the Greeks, and His name was seen on Linear B tablets dating back to the Minoans.

this is interesting for two reasons:

Dionysos is so often seen as a "foreign God", who came roaring out of some mysterious mountain in the East. but He's also there with the Minoans, receiving pretty large sacrifices, almost 3500 years ago.

the Minoans were the civilization that Ariadne came from - they were named after King Minos, they were actively on Crete. i can only wonder how old the story of Ariadne and Dionysos is, then. Ariadne wasn't mentioned in the article, but some research shows that it's a not unheard of opinion that Her name is old, and there's a good chance it came from the Minoans.

these two things put together just kind of show how interesting Dionysos is when it comes to being a God of opposites. He's been worshiped in Greece for almost 3500 years, and yet He's a young foreign God. He's married to a mortal woman and yet Her name echoes back to the very birth of Her own mythic kingdom, with an origin that may mean "most holy". together, Dionysos and Ariadne are both eternally young and eternally old, and there's just something that sticks in my head about that, you feel?

anyways, here are the two articles that i used for this:

Ariadne - Wikipedia

The Shocking True Origins of Dionysos - by Spencer McDaniel

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Offering candles to Ariadne, goddess of mazes and fated paths. Her husband is Dionysus.

She is more than just maiden or lover— she is considered a spirit of the labyrinth, both physical and unseen As a goddess of thresholds and tangled thoughts, she is a balm to Dionysus’s frenzy and a guide to those wandering the wilderness of their own becoming. Petition her not only for love—but for lucid dreams and spiritual awakenings.

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ariadne in celebration

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I think there is a lot of power in Ariadne's tale, actually, and I feel like that reflects on who she is as well. She went through a fucking awful situation, left behind by the love of her life - IN HER SLEEP, BY THE WAY - to die alone on the island of Naxos with no way to leave. Dionysus found her and offered her a new life, and not only is that a beautiful display of love, but it's also a beautiful display of Ariadne's personal strength. She pushed through the struggles of her past and learned to trust and love and live again. She must've had to build from the bottom up, healing from the pain of the past, and she fucking did it! She did it and succeeded and lived happily with her god husband who literally made her a crown of stars, and that's fucking awesome, and I just think that's a really beautiful and highly underrated part of Ariadne's story: her journey of healing that she took after being left by Theseus.