{"id":6055,"date":"2011-11-01T01:10:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T06:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=6217"},"modified":"2011-10-23T18:04:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T23:04:49","slug":"noblemen-of-god-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2011\/11\/01\/noblemen-of-god-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Noblemen Of God"},"content":{"rendered":"

GOD OF THE VINE<\/strong> – Dionysus<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nIf your mother was killed and descended to the underworld would you go down and save her?\u00a0 Greek God Dionysus did exactly just that.\u00a0 When his mother Semele, a mortal, was impregnated by Zeus, she wanted more than anything to see this truly divine presence.\u00a0 Hera came to Semele in disguise, and told her that she must see Zeus and everything that he was.\u00a0 So the next time Zeus came to Semele, she made him promise to show himself to her.\u00a0 Zeus, being madly in love with her, quickly agreed and presented himself in front of her.\u00a0 Instantly shocked and overwhelmed, Semele was burned to a crisp my Zeus\u2019s goriness.\u00a0 When that happened, Zeus immediately realized that Dionysus was in her, so he removed Dionysus and stitched him onto his leg for safe keeping until he was ready to be born.\u00a0 Because Dionysus was born from Zeus, this made him immortal like the rest of the Gods.
\nAs Dionysus grew older he began to grow upset with Hera for causing hid mother to get herself killed.\u00a0 So one day, while fully equipped with anger and courage, Dionysus went down into the underworld to find and retrieve is mother Semele.\u00a0 Once he found her, he was able to bring her back to Mount Olympus with him.<\/p>\n

On a lighter note, Dionysus is also the god of wine and fertility.\u00a0 His worshipers would go into the forest to drink wine, and act like savages.\u00a0 Some say that Dionysus was the inventor of wine itself.<\/p>\n

CONNECTING WITH DIONYSUS<\/strong>
\nDionysus reminds us of the drive within us all to sacrifice anything in order to save our family..even if it means going down into the underworld.\u00a0 Although, Dionysus\u2019s journey can symbolize a variety of things for people.\u00a0 All in all it has to do with going to great depths to get what we want, and not stopping.
\nThe most obvious thing to do would be to go to a wine vineyard and do some tasting.\u00a0 This is a fun activity to do with friends and just have a good time.\u00a0 Or prepare sangrias with apples for a Samhain treat!
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\nSYMBOLS AND THINGS TO PUT ON YOUR ALTER<\/strong>
\nWine, gold, vines, pleasures, red, pine,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GOD OF THE VINE – Dionysus If your mother was killed and descended to the underworld would you go down and save her?\u00a0 Greek God Dionysus did exactly just that.\u00a0 When his mother Semele, a mortal, was impregnated by Zeus, she wanted more than anything to see this truly divine presence.\u00a0 Hera came to Semele in disguise, and told her that she must see Zeus and everything that he was.\u00a0 So the next time Zeus came to Semele, she made him promise to show himself to her.\u00a0 Zeus, being madly in love with her, quickly agreed and presented himself in front of her.\u00a0 Instantly shocked and overwhelmed, Semele was burned to a crisp my Zeus\u2019s goriness.\u00a0 When that happened, Zeus immediately realized that Dionysus was in her, so he removed Dionysus and stitched him onto his leg for safe keeping until he was ready to be born.\u00a0 Because Dionysus was born from Zeus, this made him immortal like the rest of the Gods. As Dionysus grew older he began to grow upset with Hera for causing hid mother to get herself killed.\u00a0 So one day, while fully equipped with anger and courage, Dionysus went down into the underworld to find and retrieve is mother Semele.\u00a0 Once he found her, he was able to bring her back to Mount Olympus with him. On a lighter note, Dionysus is also the god of wine and fertility.\u00a0 His worshipers would go into the forest to drink wine, and act like savages.\u00a0 Some say that Dionysus was the inventor of wine itself. CONNECTING WITH DIONYSUS Dionysus reminds us of the drive within us all to sacrifice anything in order to save our family..even if it means going down into the underworld.\u00a0 Although, Dionysus\u2019s journey can symbolize a variety of things for people.\u00a0 All in all it has to do with going to great depths to get what we want, and not stopping. The most obvious thing to do would be to go to a wine vineyard and do some tasting.\u00a0 This is a fun activity to do with friends and just have a good time.\u00a0 Or prepare sangrias with apples for a Samhain treat! SYMBOLS AND THINGS TO PUT ON YOUR ALTER Wine, gold, vines, pleasures, red, pine,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}