Reversing Greek Mythology

In mythology, when Dionysus, the god of wine, came to the city of Thebes, he used his divine power to enchant the women of Thebes, making them his fanatical followers.

It was precisely because of being bewitched by the divine power of Dionysus that Cadmus's daughter Agaeus killed her son Pentheus with her own hands.

It is clear that Dionysus himself did not have the charm to be popular with the Greeks.

Therefore, in real history, even if the worshipers of Dionysus followed the worshipers of Apollo and occupied the Delphi temple and made Dionysus the son of Zeus, they would not be able to give Dionysus the same benefits as Apollo. status.

As a god worshiped by the Thracians, a nomadic people in the north, Dionysus, the god of wine, is only qualified to be a demigod born between a human and Zeus. Even if he becomes a god, he cannot really stand on the stage.

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This was just one of the reasons why Dionysus, the god of wine, was unpopular with the Greeks, who considered him a god worshiped by barbaric nomads.

The more important reason is that before the Greeks obtained food from the Black Sea trade, there was no drinking culture.

After the Greeks brewed wine, they mainly used wine as a commodity in exchange for valuable grain.

Although Luo Yin didn't want to put down his dignity and take the initiative to see Dionysus, but in order to save the women of Thebes including his cheap mother Agao, Luo Yin didn't mind taking the initiative to come to Dionysus.

Outside Thebes.

Mount Kitalong.

Bewitched by the divine power of Dionysus, all the women of Thebes came here to welcome the new god.

Luo Yin came to the altar built by the women for Dionysus, and saw Dionysus walking out from among the women in the form of a young and beautiful boy god, and came to him alone.

"Dear brother Pentheus, you are welcome to participate in my sacrifice."

Dionysus handed a woman's robe to Luo Yin and said.

"Because you are not a Christian, you must witness the sacrifice wearing women's clothes, lest the angry women tear you to pieces."

Luo Yin looked at the women's clothes in Dionysus' hands, and then at the women's clothes Dionysus was wearing.

"You god of women and cowards, do you think I look like a coward like you?"

Luo Yin sneered and said.

"A real man must stay awake at all times in order to participate in the war at any time. Only cowards who escape the war and women who do not need to go to the battlefield will be bewitched by your divine power. But I am neither a coward nor a woman, but I can always stay awake." I come to you, warrior, to drive you out of Thrace, a barbarian. I hear that you claim to be the son of Zeus and Semele, and the grandson of Cadmus. The city of Bes is your hometown, and the Thebans should accept you. Dionysus! Even if you tell a lie a thousand times, it will never become true. You are a barbarian from Thrace. You have nothing to do with the family of Cadmus. Even if Zeus accepts your defective son, the family of Cadmus will not accept you, a barbarian from the Thracian region. Now I am the king of Thebes. I order you to get out of my territory immediately and stop using your divine power to seduce the Thebans.”

After Luo Yin finished speaking, the smile on Dionysus' face disappeared, and his expression instantly became gloomy and terrifying.

"How dare you refuse me? Damn humans! Damn Pentheus! Even if the Thracians will have a short-term glory, their decline is inevitable. In order to survive, in order to become a more powerful god, I must Abandoning the Thracians and becoming the Greek god of wine, Dionysus, in order to integrate into the world of Greek mythology, I not only took the initiative to become Zeus's illegitimate son, but also deigned to become the grandson of Cadmus and become you. My cousin, how dare you reject me, a great god?"

"Don't make it sound like you're at a disadvantage! If you were not the son of Zeus or the grandson of Cadmus, who would know about the Thracian god of wine, Dionysus? After the Thracian people completely declined , even the name of Helios, the highest god of the Thracians, was almost absorbed by Apollo. "

Dionysus gritted his teeth and looked at Luo Yin and said.

"How stupid! Since you want to reject me, then I can only conquer the city of Thebes by force and force the Thebes to accept the new gods."

After saying this, Dionysus struck the ground with his Dionysus scepter.

Boom!

A huge grapevine immediately burst out of the ground and wrapped around Luo Yin's body.

"The power to control plants - is this a power inherited from your mother Semele?"

Looking at the grapevines wrapping around his body like a giant green snake, Luo Yin said with a faint smile.

"Three thousand years later, people knew that Semele was the lover of Zeus and the daughter of Cadmus. Who knew that Semele was the Thracian plant goddess or earth mother goddess? Maybe Demeter was her real After the fall of the Thracians, Semele could only exist as the lover of Zeus and the daughter of Cadmus. The name Demeter was also absorbed by Persephone, as the trinity of Persephone. Carrying the divinity of Persephone as the goddess of agriculture.”

Regarding the life experience of Dionysus, the mainstream theory is that Dionysus was the son of Zeus and Semele.

Semele's identity is the Mother Earth Goddess of the Kingdom of Virginia established by the Thracians in the east.

In other words, Semele is a god from the Greek East.

Regarding the life experience of Dionysus, there is another view that Dionysus' previous life-that is, before becoming the Greek god Dionysus, he was the son of Zeus and Persephone. son.

Persephone is the goddess of the Pylos region in the southern Peloponnese Peninsula. Forcibly linking Persephone to Dionysus is of course nonsense that is divorced from realistic logic.

But Persephone is not just Persephone.

Persephone as a trinity of goddesses, although at its core Persephone is a goddess from the Peloponnese, Demeter is a goddess from the Greek East.

Semele is an earth goddess from the Greek East.

Demeter is an earth goddess from the Greek East.

If Semele and Demeter represent the same goddess, and Demeter becomes the trinity of Persephone, there will be a myth that Dionysus was the son of Persephone in his previous life, that is, Can explain.

Thinking of this, Luo Yin couldn't help laughing, and couldn't help but look at Dionysus and said.

"Oops... I suddenly thought of an interesting thing. If you are sister Persephone's cheap son, it means you are also my cheap son! Dionysus! Since you can take the initiative to be Zeus's son, Son, do you want to take the initiative to become my son? If you become my cheap son, maybe I will consider being nicer to you."