Wine god (was: Re: Dionysus)

Jane Delawney · 30 Nov 2010, 02:30 · from 2010-November.txt.gz

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From: jane_delawney at sky.com (Jane Delawney)
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 02:30:28 +0000
Subject: (urth) Wine god (was: Re:  Dionysus)
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On 29/11/10 19:49, James Wynn wrote:
>
> Dionysus is an important god in Greek mythology but he is missing from 
> the Whorl pantheon. 
Just a quick thought - this is true in terms of a being named Dionysus 
or similar, but there *is* a wine-god, isn't there? I'm sure there is a 
passage in vol. 3 of Long Sun where Silk meditates upon the nature of 
the wine-god, who is reputed to be the son of Thyone (I think - sorry if 
this isn't accurate, I don't have my books to hand right now), who is 
herself 'a very minor goddess ... a less favoured mistress of Typhon' (I 
presume this means less favoured than Kypris). However, there is a 
curious suggestion that the wine-god may not after all be a bastard son 
of Typhon but in some sense the son of the Outsider. Which would 
probably make this a Christian reference - Christ as wine-god - not as 
in god of drunken orgies of course, but God manifest in the wine of the 
Eucharist.

Very allusive indeed, but interesting IMO

jd.

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