He called himself the younger Dionysus and insisted on being called so by others.

He joined her in sitting for paintings and statues, he representing Osiris and Dionysus, and she Selene and Isis.

Satyrs are the attendant daemons who form the Kômos, or revel rout, of Dionysus.

The Eleusinia, collecting together, as it did, all the prominent elements of mythology, furnishes, in its dramatic evolution through Demeter and Dionysus, the highest and most complete representation of ancient faith in both of its developments.

This it is which gives meaning to the torch-light procession on the fifth night of the Festival; but to-morrow it shall find an answer in the Saviour Dionysus, who shall change the flight of search into the pomp of triumph.

Thus was the sixth day of the Eleusinia,when the ivy-crowned Dionysus was borne in triumph through the mystic entrance of Eleusis, and from the Eleusinian plains, as from our choirs to-day, ascended the jubilant Hosannas of the countless multitude;this was the Palm Sunday of Greece.

Such was the train of the Eleusinian Dionysus.

Still the fact of its association with Dionysus stands as evidence of the connection of human faith with human victory.

Let it be that Dionysus himself was only the apotheosis of victorious humanity.

But they who conquer, these are our Saviours; they shall follow in the train of Dionysus; they shall lift us to the heavens, and sanctify in our remembrance the Sunday of Palms!

But Dionysus not only looks back with triumphant remembrance to ancient conquest, but has his victories in the present, also, and in the great Hereafter.

Each found expression in sculptured monument,the one hinting of flight into darkness, and the other of resurrection into light; each in its cycle inclosed the world; each widened into the invisible; as the wail of Achtheia reached the heart of Hades, so the paean of Dionysus was lost in the heavens.

But in what manner did this Dionysus make his avatar in the world?

Hence, according to the tradition, Dionysus was born of Semele of the royal house at Thebes; and Jove was his father.

The enthusiasm of victory and exaltation in the worship of Dionysus tended of course to connect with him whatsoever was joyous and jubilant in life.

This element is also evident in the worship of Dionysus,so that the inspiration of joy must not be taken for the frenzy of intoxication, though the symbol of the vine has often led to just this misapprehension.

Besides, Dionysus must not be too closely identified with the Bacchanalian orgies, which were only a perversion of rites which retained their original purity in the Eleusinia: and this latter institution, it must be remembered, was from the first under the control of the state,and that state at the time the most refined on the face of the earth.

But most certainly the Greeks gave a profound spiritual meaning to the Eleusinia, as also to the mystic connection of Demeter with Dionysus.

So Dionysus gave them wine, not only to lighten the cares of life, but as a token, moreover, of efficient deliverance from the fear of death, and of the higher joy which he would give them in some happier world.

Demeter was thus necessary to Dionysus,as Dionysus to Demeter; and if in remembrance of him the sepulchral walls were covered with scenes associated with festivity,in remembrance of her there must needs be a skeleton at every feast.

Demeter was thus necessary to Dionysus,as Dionysus to Demeter; and if in remembrance of him the sepulchral walls were covered with scenes associated with festivity,in remembrance of her there must needs be a skeleton at every feast.

It is worthy of more attention than we can give it here, yet we cannot pass over in silence the fact, so important in this relation, that Grecian Tragedy, in all its wonderful development under the three great masters, was directly associated, and in its ruder beginnings completely identified, with the worship of Dionysus.

Thus was the name of Dionysus connected with the palace and the temple, with the sepulchral court of death and the dramatic representations of life,and everywhere associated with our Lady.

An athletic circus-rider of mature years, with abnormally developed muscles, might have posed as model for this female votary of Dionysus.

Dionysus in doubt; a book of poems.