I. Eubouleus, Lysios, Iatros
O Dio of Good Counsel, who listens to the cries of my heart. You - of Release - who teaches me to know when to let go, when to laugh. Healer of spirit and mind, I devote and place my faith in you.
II. Bakcheios, Bromios, Omadios
Bacchic Lord who leads orgies and revels. In your frenzied state, you are loud: like thunder, like your father, like the hooves of bulls and the roars of lions. Your lips are smeared with raw meat, raw flesh, everything raw and naked. You are the embodiment of ecstatic joy.
III. Enualios, Areios, Maenoles
God of universal might who delights in swords and blood. I pick up my spear, and - like grapes into wine - transform wrath into strength. May our thyrsos be drenched in red. O Mad and Raging One, sate my hunger for power.
IV. Trigonos, Chthonius, Nyktelios
You are Zagreus, dying-and-rising forevermore. You dwell below the Earth and in the Night, the unknown. Show me the mysteries of rebirth, the ways of the Living and Dead.
V. Oenops, Lenaeus, Kissobryos
O beautiful wine-dark god, in your name the wine-press is sacred. Your juice is a door to ritual madness, to liberation and transcendence. Through the grapes I shake off my shackles of society. I am breathless when I see you bedecked in ivy.
VI. Melanaigis, Tragos, Dikaeros
Clad in black goatskin, I see why some call you a Witching God, for you are the dark aegis of tragedy and goat-song. Upon your head are two horns, like halos: your Aither of overflowing wine a proof of your divinity.
VII. Kliromonos, Eleuthereus, Soter
I call you my King, my Successor of Zeus. Whether Nysa or the reclaimed Tower of Kronos, I await your ascension to the throne. As you have delivered Hephaistos to Olympus, may you deliver me from the cycle of suffering. O Dionysos, I praise you as my savior.
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