Greek Gods

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"But come thou goddess fair and free, In heav'n yclep'd Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To Ivy-crowned Bacchus bore; Or whether (as some sager sing) The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr, with Aurora playing, As he met her once a-Maying, There on beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses wash'd in dew, Fill'd her with thee, a daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair."

"‘Be of good courage, blest companion mine; Bacchus am I, the roaring God of Wine; And well shall this day be, for thee and thine.’"

"For were it not Dionysus to whom they institute a procession and sing songs in honor of the pudenda, it would be the most shameful action. But Dionysus, in whose honor they rave in bacchic frenzy, and Hades are the same."

"Dionysus mingles in the wine new powers, Sending high adventure to the thoughts of men;"

"Bacchus, as Dionysus, is of Indian origin. Cicero mentions him as a son of Thyone and Nisus. Dionusos means the god Dis from Mount Nys in India. Bacchus, crowned with ivy, or kissos, is Christna, one of whose names was Kissen. Dionysus is preeminently the deity on whom were centred all the hopes for future life; in short, he was the god who was expected to liberate the souls of men from their prisons of flesh. Orpheus, the poet-Argonaut, is also said to have come on earth to purify the religion of its gross, and terrestrial anthropomorphism, he abolished human sacrifice and instituted a mystic theology based on pure spirituality. Cicero calls Orpheus a son of Bacchus. It is strange that both seem to have originally come from India. At least, as Dionysus Zagreus, Bacchus is of undoubted Hindu origin. Some writers deriving a curious analogy between the name of Orpheus and an old Greek term, orphos, dark or tawny-colored, make him Hindu by connecting the term with his dusky Hindu complexion."

"Behold, God's Son is come unto this land Of Thebes, even I, Dionysus, whom the brand Of heaven's hot splendour lit to life, when she Who bore me, Cadmus' daughter Semele, Died here. So, changed in shape from God to man, I walk again by Dirce's streams and scan Ismenus' shore. There by the castle side I see her place, the Tomb of the Lightning's Bride, The wreck of smouldering chambers, and the great Faint wreaths of fire undying—as the hate Dies not, that Hera held for Semele."

"Frogs and Dionysus: Brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax. Dionysus: Go, hang yourselves; for what care I? Frogs: All the same we'll shout and cry, Stretching all our throats with song, Shouting, crying, all day long, Frogs and Dionysus: Brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax. Frogs: In this you'll never, never win. This you shall not beat us in. Dionysus: No, nor ye prevail o’er me. Never! never! I'll my song Shout, if need be, all day long, Until I’ve learned to master your ko-ax. Brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax. I thought I’d put a stop to your ko-ax."

"The divine madness was subdivided into four kinds, prophetic, initiatory, poetic, erotic, having four gods presiding over them; the first was the inspiration of Apollo, the second that of Dionysus, the third that of the Muses, the fourth that of Aphrodite and Eros."

"To the grape-giver Bacchants shout all hail;"

"When Dionysus leads his jocund quire, And wingèd songsters tune their various lay, And bees go labouring on and never tire, Why shall the singer only not be gay?"

"O Lord with whom playeth Love the subduer and the dark-eyed Nymphs and rosy Aphrodite as thou wanderest the tops of the lofty hills, to thee I kneel; do thou come unto me kind and lending ear unto a prayer that is acceptable, and give Cleobulus good counsel, O Dionysus, to receive my love."

"The olive-trees belong to Pallas and the vines round them to Dionysus."

"Crowne ye God Bacchus with a coronall,"

"And cup-like Twillpants, stroude in Bacchus Bowres."

"So faire a church as this, had Venus none, The wals were of discoloured jasper stone, Wherein was Proteus carvèd, and o’rehead, A livelie vine of greene sea agget spread; Where by one hand, light headed Bacchus hoong, And with the other, wine from grapes out wroong."

"I dreamt this mortal part of mine Was metamorphos’d to a vine; Which crawling one and every way Enthrall’d my dainty Lucia. Methought, her long small legs and thighs I with my tendrils did surprise; Her belly, buttocks, and her waist By my soft nerv’lets were embrac’d. About her head I writhing hung, And with rich clusters, hid among The leaves, her temples I behung: So that my Lucia seem’d to me Young Bacchus ravish’d by his tree."

"Wild I am now with heat: O Bacchus, cool thy rays! Or frantic I shall eat Thy thyrse and bite the bays."

"Fondling forbear, ’tis Heresy to think There is a Mistress equal to thy Drink; Or if in love with any, ’t must be rather With that plump Girl that does call Bacchus Father."

"Bacchus must now his power resign— I am the only God of Wine! It is not fit the wretch should be In competition set with me, Who can drink ten times more than he.Make a new world, ye powers divine! Stock’d with nothing else but Wine: Let Wine its only product be, Let Wine be earth, and air, and sea— And let that Wine be all for me!"

"Sooty retainer to the vine, Bacchus’ black servant, negro fine;"

"Ares separates the opposites in the universe from each other, Hephaestus incessantly makes the whole organization of the sensible conform to the rules of art. These gods both need Aphrodite, one to bring agreement and order to opposites, the other to introduce into sensible works the beauty and all the splendour that has been able to make this world the most beautiful of visible things. (Proclus)"

"If thou observe the tokens, which this man Trac’d by the finger of the angel bears, ’Tis plain that in the kingdom of the just He needs must share. But sithence she, whose wheel Spins day and night, for him not yet had drawn That yarn, which, on the fatal distaff pil’d, Clotho apportions to each wight that breathes, His soul, that sister is to mine and thine, Not of herself could mount, for not like ours Her ken."

"Comes the blind Fury with th’abhorrèd shears, And slits the thin spun life."

"Tous nos jours sont sujets aux Parques; Ceux des bergers et des monarques Sont coupds des memes ciseaux."

"Come down from heaven, Urania, if that's really what | the name by which you are called, so | That following your divine voice | May I rise above Mount Olympus | even surpassing the wing of Pegasus in flight. (John Milton)"

"Urania to his beloved | Pindar sang them. Why so much | The Goddess deigned the high poet and how, | I'll say first; then the celestial accents | I will remember, if she inspires me as a friend. (Alessandro Manzoni)"

"Hesiod, Theogony 78; Ovid, Fasti 5.55"

"Suidas s.v. Linos"

"Smith, s.v. Urania (1); Hyginus, Fabulae 161"

"Suda, lambda, 568"

"Pausanias, 9.29.6"

"Catullus lxi. 2."