#dionysosdeity

Bright as gems,

Trailing down my chin.

Eyes wild,

Teeth bared,

I take the heart

And bite it.

I am as my ancestors,

Wild and untamed.

"Meanads," they called them.

Those who refused

To be constrained.

Followers of the divine,

Embracing in his mysteries.

The coiling of snakes,

The leopard's snarl,

The bull's roar,

Shrieking in my ears,

As I pour another libation.

Like Him,

Head of Dionysos

Late Hellenistic or Late Republican, 1st century BC

Greek or Roman (Culture)

Terracotta

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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I know I’ve said I don’t do deities, but I just keep thinking more and more about Dionysus and, more recently, Ares.

I would appreciate some thoughts, opinions, advice, resources, etc. regarding the two as well as regarding greek gods in general.

I should mention that I currently don’t have any space where I am to set up a witch altar (all my magic stuff is still in a cardboard box that I recently got out of storage lol) let alone any devotional altars.

Dionysos

Roman; 2nd century AD

After a lost Greek original 3rd century BC

Temple of Dionysos (Cyrene), Cyrenaica, Libya (Findspot)

Marble

The British Museum