Mythic Women in BotNS

Lee Berman · 26 Jan 2011, 20:20 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:20:46 -0500
Subject: (urth) Mythic Women in BotNS
Message-ID: <SNT123-W357956A9AF622C7B76A0E0CFFF0 at phx.gbl>

>Antonio Pedro Marques: Funny, remember who else carries a stuff with a head in it?

Do you mean Silk and his vine? Good call!

BTW, aside from grapes and vines and wine, Dionysus was known for carrying a staff.

It was called a "thyrsus". Made of fennel, usually wrapped in vines and topped with
a pine cone. Isn't there a cryptic reference to fennel somewhere in Short Sun?

If there is a connection between Inire, The Outsider, Typhon and Pas somehow I think
Dionysus as demiurge is the mythic/religious link.

I'm wondering if the ruler-vizier relationship is also important. (As with God-Lucifer?)

(Here's a Dionysus image showing the thyrsus. http://www.teenwitch.com/divine/greek/pict/f_dionysos.jpg
Nicely androgynous and showing the grapes and 
the snakes which symbolize him also.)

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