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EURIPIDES' INVOCATION TO DIONYSOS BROMIOS

O Bromius, leader, god of joy,

Bromius, take me there!

There the lovely Graces are,

and there Desire, and there

the bacchants have the right to worship.

The deity, the son of Zeus,

in feast, in festival, delights.

He loves the goddess Peace,

generous of good,

preserver of the young.

To rich and poor he gives

the painless delight of wine.

But him he hates who scoffs

at the happiness of those

for whom the day is blessed

and blessed the night;

whose simple wisdom shuns the thoughts

of proud, uncommon men.

What the common people

believe and do,

I too believe and do.

(trans. by William Arrowsmith, lines 412–430)

Euripides, The Bacchae

the shaved reference really highlights how huge machetes ears are, like damn dude, how many channels do you get on those satellite dishes?

When you've got ears like slices of pizza but you still can't hear the voice of god.

#bromios #answered #they're so fun to draw though #someone said to me that on animal characters ears are like second eyebrows #they can add so much oomph to your expressions #it's actually a little jarring that Vasco's ears are so passive in their floppiness it's like he's missing a bodypart #at least compared to Machete's overly mobile bat ears

#poetry #meleager #youth #love #wine #forgetfulness #Bromios

This blog might as well be dedicated to him

#dionysos #dionysus #bacchae #bromios #dionysus deity

Thus Persephone plays an important role in Orphism, and Orphism in turn seems to have influenced the Eleusinian cult, since it is only after the rise of Orphism that the Eleusinian rite came to climax around a cry welcoming the birth of a child called Bromios, who is often confused with Zagreus/Dionysos despite the radical difference in basic presuppositions between the Eleusinian and the Orphic mysteries. In Orphism, salvation was won through asceticism and a world-denying mortality; at Eleusis, initiation itself was experienced as transformative.

Part One: The Ancient Sources of The Long Journey Home: Re-Visioning the Myth of Demeter and Persephone for Our Time, edited by Christine Downing (p 16-7)

#persephone #zagreus #Dionysus #bromios #the long journey home #christine downing

Dionysos Bromios at rest.

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Praise to Bromios

There is something building in my diaphragm It is pushing at the base of my lungs It is overwhelming Sometimes I sit in class In the library On the bus In my bed

And I get the urge to scream

Hail to you, loud-crying God Who shakes my insides upside down You who puts bells in my ears and wailing in my throat You who visits infrequently, confusingly, terribly And sets my eyes stinging

Chaos is a new home, and I am unaccustomed And you have given me half of a welcome manual; (I expected nothing less)