Dionysus/Bacchus

He is often deen in artworks with Ivy Vines.

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Dionysos was kidnapped by the Titans, who lured him with marvellous toys. While he is gazing at his own image in a mirror, the Titans slice his throat with a sacrificial knife. The child-Dionysos is then cut up into pieces. He is known as the deity of wine and orgiastic love.

"we should pour out libations to Ceres and Bacchus",- Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg.78

"The Greek mystics also carried a symbolic staff, the upper end being in the form of a pine cone, which was called the thyrsus of Bacchus."-The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall pg. 77-81

"The Dionysiac Architects were consecrated to the raising of their Master Spirit--Cosmic Beauty--from the sepulcher of material ignorance and selfishness by erecting buildings which were such perfect exemplars of symmetry and majesty that they were actually magical formulæ by which was evoked the spirit of the martyred Beautifier entombed within a materialistic world."-The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall pg. 77-81

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Names

Known to the Greeks as Dionysus and as Bacchus to the Romans.

"From Egypt the Mysteries went to Phonecia and were celebrated at Tyre. Osiris changed his name and became Adonai or Dionusus, still the representative of the Sun. In Greece and Sicily, Osiris took the name of Bacchus.” Albert Pike 33°: “Morals and Dogma” [p. 363]

The Osirian Mysteries parallel the Dionysian Mysteries.

"...the murder of Dionysus by the Titans was commemorated in which legend he is evidently identified with the Egyptian Osiris, who was slain by his brother Typhon."- Mackey Encylopedia of Freemasonry

" ...Horus, the son of Osiris, called by the Greeks Apollo. He deposed Typhon, and ruled over Egypt as its last god-king. Osiris is named Dionysus (Bacchus) by the Greeks." - Herodotus THE HISTORY : L.1, C.144. CHAPTER 144

"the place where Osiris, the Egyptian Zagreus or Bacchus, was born, was Mount Sinai, which is called by the Egyptians Mount Nissa" - The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy By H. P. Blavatsky, Annie Besant  pg. 280

"we readily recognize in Hiram Abif, one of the Grand Masters of Freemasons, the Osiris of the Egyptians, the Mithras of the Persians, the Bacchus of the Greeks, the Dionysius of the Fraternity of the Artificers, and the Atys of the Phrygians, whose passion, death and resurrection were celebrated by these people respectively. "- Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 134

"That fact we believe to have been the murder of Abel by his brother Cain."- Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 134

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"(In the Arthurian Legend) ..Galahad is Dionysus ... – Orders of the Quest, The Holy Grail (Adept Series) by Manly P.Hall