…psychedelics and away from the booze. And it happened again with Pythagoras and again with buddha. Well and it happened with Dionysius turning into bacchus it was the vine it was wine and the early bacchus is a frightening figure whose practitioners fell…

…were able to act out the way of the answer. It's terrible. The most horrific thing that is put against the women followers of Dionysius was that they devoured their children at the height of their frenzy. I mean this is a human crime for which, so far…

…world. Plus you then have all the surviving cults of the older egyptian strata, the cults of ISis and Seville and Adonis and Dionysius. And it just goes on and on. I mean, the richness of this intellectual world is very. There's nothing comparable in our…

…God incarnate. This is a claim. This was an idea that had been around for a few hundred years. You all have heard of Dionysius, who most people tend to connect to Bache, the drunken late roman God of wine. But the early Dionysius is a much, much…

…all have heard of Dionysius, who most people tend to connect to Bache, the drunken late roman God of wine. But the early Dionysius is a much, much weirder figure. The early Dionysius is an androgyne, always in the company of women, a God of ecstatic…

…to connect to Bache, the drunken late roman God of wine. But the early Dionysius is a much, much weirder figure. The early Dionysius is an androgyne, always in the company of women, a God of ecstatic frenzy. And what the enemies of the dionysian religion…

…And what the enemies of the dionysian religion always claimed was, first of all, women were the major followers of Dionysius. And they would intoxicate themselves in some way and then holding hands, dance through the countryside and rend their clothing…

…manaids, ate their own children. This was the lie spread about the dionysian religion. Well, the story of the birth of Dionysius is very interesting because his father was Zeus, the hidden, higher, all father, analogous to God the father and Christianity.…