Dionysus (Greek: Διόνυσος、 English: Dionysus), the god of wine in ancient Greek mythology, is one of the twelve main gods of Twelve Olympians. Dionysus was the god of wine believed by the ancient Greeks and Thracians. He not only held the power of wine intoxication, but also became an extremely inspiring god at that time by giving joy and love. He promoted the civilization of ancient society, established laws, and maintained world peace.
In addition, he also protected the agricultural and theatrical culture of Greece. In the legend of Mount Olympus, he is the son of Zeus and Semele (another saying is Zeus and Persephone). The ancient Greeks' sacrifice of Dionysus is one of the Esotericism rituals, similar to the Ulysses ritual for Demeter and Persephone. In the ceremony of Thracians, he wears fox skin, which is said to symbolize rebirth. The Dionysus Carnival, the exclusive Dionysus, is the most secret religious ceremony.
Dio in the god name of Dionysus is generally believed to originate from Zeus, just like the Dioscuri brothers (Ancient Greek: Διόσκουροι， Latin: Diosc ū R ī） The name also includes Dio -. Scholar Robert S. P. Beekes believes that his divine name may have originated from pre Greek times.
The origin of Dionysus worship is very early. In Mycenaean Greek, in the record left by linear B characters, his god name is written as 0 (di wo nu so). Historians believe that the Dionysus belief was already prevalent in the Mycenaean Greece between 1500 and 1100 BC. Some scholars believe that this belief may have appeared in the Minoan civilization.

The first is that Dionysus was the son of Zeus and Semele. Semele was the princess of Tebai. Zeus fell in love with her and had a tryst with her. Hera, the queen of heaven, became very jealous and became a relative of the princess. She encouraged the princess to make a request to Zeus to see Zeus' real body in order to verify Zeus' love for her. Zeus could not resist the princess's request and showed the original shape (like the god of thunder). As a result, Semele was burned to death in the thunder fire. Zeus rescued the infant Dionysus, who was not yet full term, and sewed him into his thigh. He did not take him out until full term. Because he walked like a cripple in Zeus's thigh, Zeus got the name Dionysus (meaning "lame man").
The second is that Dionysus was the son of Zeus and Persephone. Hera sent Titan to kill and destroy the body of newly born Dionysus, but Zeus saved his heart and let his soul reincarnate into Semele's body again. So, the story of the rebirth and immortality of Bacchus spread throughout Greece, making people admire it immensely.
When Dionysus came of age, Hera still refused to let him go, making him crazy and wandering around. In the process of wandering on the earth, he taught farmers to make wine, so he became the god of wine, and also one of the favorite gods of ancient Greek farmers. Every year, he commemorated him with the worship of the god of wine, and thus developed the Greek tragedy.

Former Zagreos
Zagreos (Greek: Ζαγρεος， Zagreos/Zagreus): also translated as Zagreus, the horn god, the son of the god Zeus and the empress Persephone.
During the Titanomachy, Persephone, the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, the goddess of grain, had grown up gracefully. Demeter hid his daughter in a cave to avoid her falling into the clutches of lecherous Zeus. But Zeus found this young virgin and transformed into a dragon to marry her. So Persephone gave birth to Zagreus, a son with horns on his head. The newborn Zagreus climbed Mount Olympus and sat on Zeus' throne, waving Zeus' lightning with his tender little hand - Zeus hinted that he would inherit his throne.
The jealous queen Hera instigated the Titans to rob Zagreos. Zagreos fled in various forms, and the Titans tempted him with rattles, castanets, and mirrors. The young god was attracted by the mirror, and he looked at his own image with fascination. The Titans seized the opportunity to seize Zagreos, strangled him, tore him apart, boiled him on the fire, and finally ate him. Athena, the goddess of wisdom, saved his heart and brought it to Zeus in a small box. Zeus swallowed it and preserved the mind of Zagreus.
Later, Zeus fell in love with Semele, Princess of Thebai, and put the mind of Zagreos into Semele's belly, making him reincarnated as Dionysus.

Mythological deeds
Dionysus was the god of wine, the son of Zeus and Semele. When Zeus saw his lover Semele with his true face, Semele fell to the ground and fainted at the first sight of the god. Zeus saw her frightened state and stepped over to her side. Unexpectedly, the lightning fire on Zeus ignited the palace. In an instant, everything from the past turned into ashes. When Semele was burned to death by the bright flame, Dionysus was just a baby. It was his father's strong hand that saved him. His father sewed him into his thigh and waited for his official birth. So the name means "the lame leg of Zeus".
The infant Dionysus was first entrusted to his mother's own sisters, the second wife of King Athamas of Thebes. She regarded Dionysus as her own son, but Zeus, who was afraid of the revenge of the queen, finally chose to ask Hercules to take the child to Nisiad's home and place it with the mountain fairies, who carefully nurtured him. When he was young, he was appointed as the God of Carnival, and the half human, half sheep mountain god (Silenus) was his mentor, educator, and accompanied him on his travels. He rode around in his car pulled by the wild panther. He has mastered all the secrets of nature and the history of wine. Wherever he goes, he teaches people how to plant grapes and brew sweet wine. It is said that he roamed from Greece to Asia Minor, and even dared to venture as far as India and Ethiopia. Wherever he went, the music, singing, and binge drinking followed him. His attendants are known as the followers of Bacchus and are famous for their noisy and disorderly behavior. They laughed recklessly and casually drank, danced, and sang. Among his female followers, the least restrained is the Dionysian priest. They were ecstatic in the atmosphere of revelry, dancing and accompanying him from one kingdom to another. When they are crazy or extremely excited, they will use cruel violence. They once tore apart the hands and feet of Orpus, a talented musician. Even the king of Tebai, Pentheus, insisted on persecuting Bacchus and Tebai people who followed Bacchus because his own people worshipped Bacchus (the Roman name of Dionysus), so he was punished by the Bacchus, and died tragically under the hands of the angry women. It was Pentheus's own mother, Agua, who led this group of crazy women to punish Pentheus.

Dionysus and Icarius
The king of Attica, Icarius, had a good relationship with Dionysus. Dionysus taught him how to make wine, and warned him to put the bottle of wine well and hide it, otherwise it would cause disaster. Icarius did not take Dionysus's words to heart. He gave some wine to the passing shepherd to drink, but they got drunk and thought it was poison. He beat Icarius to death and threw his body into the well of Anygro, covering the well with stones. Erigone, the daughter of Icarius, found her father's body with the help of her dog Myra. Later, Eriogene hanged himself to death. When Dionysus learned about it, he became furious and sent down the plague to Attica. Later, Icarius, Eriogene and Myra, the faithful domestic dog, all became constellations, namely, Herdsman, Virgo and Dog.

The birth of Bacchus
Twelve arrows of Eros
Eros, the intelligent little god of love, flapped his wings and came to the house of Chaos. After he knocked on the gloomy door of the primitive god of heaven, he took twelve sacred arrows of love from the old man. These twelve love arrows were specially prepared for Zeus, each of which will make the kings of the gods fall in love with the twelve mortal women.
Eros sharpened the twelve love arrows on rough stones, and carved a gold inscription on each arrow:
The first one is inscribed with the words' Indulged in the heifer Io ';
The second one is engraved with the words' turning into a bull and abducting Europa ';
The third branch is inscribed with "Pluto, the bride of the highest ruler of Olympus";
The fourth one is engraved with "turning into golden rain and becoming the bedmate of Danaë";
The fifth branch is inscribed with "a flaming marriage with Semele";
On the sixth inscription, 'Become a divine eagle and abduct Aigina';
On the seventh inscription, 'Pretend to possess Antiope as Satyr';
The eighth branch is inscribed with the phrase 'Transformed Swan Possesses Leda';
The ninth branch is inscribed with the phrase 'Distorted noble stallion chasing Dia';
The tenth branch is inscribed with "Bless Alcmene for three days and three nights";
The eleventh one is inscribed with "Take Laodamia as the bride";
The twelfth inscription reads' seducing Olympias'.

Then Eros picked up the fifth arrow, wrapped an ivy twig on it, dipped it in a bowl containing the wine of grapes, and flapped his wings to the palace of Zeus, the holy mountain of Olympus, and shot this sacred arrow of love at the king of the gods... [2]
Semele's Dream
That night, Princess Semele of Tebai had a dream. She dreamed that a fruit tree with luxuriant branches in the garden was soaked in the dew of Zeus, full of immature fruit clusters. Suddenly, a lightning bolt flashed across the sky, falling from the sky and knocking down the fruit tree, but did not touch the immature fruit. Just as the lightning struck fruit tree was burning, a plump winged bird flew over, picked up the immature fruit string, and took it to Cronion (Zeus). Zeus sewed the fruit into his thigh and continued to nourish and nurture - so a baby with horn was formed and born... In the dim light, Semele seemed to feel that he was the fruit tree with luxuriant branches. After being hit by electric fire, his whole body was burning violently. She struggled and shouted desperately, and when she broke free from her terrible nightmare, her whole body was soaked in sweat.
She sat up in a daze, leaning against the bed, trying to dispel the remaining enigmatic impressions in her mind. She looked at the faint dawn outside the window, savoring the nightmare that had just passed away, and the more she thought about it, the more afraid she became in her heart. So she got up quickly, rushed out of the boudoir, came to her father, Cadmus, and told her father the nightmare.

After hearing his daughter's nightmare, the king was very shocked. He immediately sent someone to invite Teiresias, the great prophet of Thebes, to narrate his daughter's dream to him and ask him to interpret it for his daughter.
After hearing the king's account, Tiresias immediately gained inspiration from the prophecy, but he did not directly reveal the future predicted by this enigmatic dream. He only ordered the king to immediately send the princess to the temple of Zeus and make a vow to offer a bull to the thunder god Zeus.
A few days later, Princess Semele came from the city to the altar of Zeus and offered him a bull as she had promised. She stood next to the sacrifice, sprinkling her own body with the blood of the bull. Her hair and clothes were dyed red with the blood of the bull, soaked in the blood of the sacrifice
After the sacrifice, Semele dragged his blood stained robe to the Azobos River deep in the grass, jumped into the river, and washed his blood soaked body and coat.
After washing her body, the girl and the accompanying maids swam naked across the river.
On the surface of the water, she elegantly stretched out her beautiful limbs, occasionally stepping on the water with her feet to keep her head above the water and prevent the hair curled up on her head from getting wet.

Her soft skin exuded a rose like luster in the dim water, which made the Nymphes envious under the waves. They exclaimed, "This snow-white skin is shining like the moon. Could it be that Selene, the god of the moon, came here to bathe before going to the Latmus cave to have a tryst with his beloved shepherd, Endymion? Could it be that some muse dived into our waters from nearby Helicon Mountain? Could it be Cronus in Cyprus He once again castrated his father with a sickle, so that the foam sea gave birth to a little Aphrodite? Her eyes are so peaceful and pure. Could it be that the virgin god Athena came here from heaven? "
At this moment, Zeus was scanning the world from high above with his insightful eyes, and his gaze involuntarily fell on this beautiful girl. Seeing that the time was ripe, Eros stood aside and quickly pulled out his carved bow, which nurtured life. Zeus became his target! Although Zeus was great, he could not resist the power of Eros' magic arrow. Where the bow string flashed, the arrow of love was like a shooting star, with the sound of newlywed screams, heading straight towards Zeus' heart.
At once, Zeus felt a heat surge in his heart. He stared at those bright eyes in surprise, just as he had seen Europa, Princess of Phoenicia. The graceful body and irresistible charming appearance made him have uncontrollable passion.
He jumped up with a start. Although he has a sharp eye for insight into the world, he is never satisfied with looking from a distance. So he turned into a giant eagle and flew over the Azopos River, eager to get a closer look at the girl who had captivated him.
The rose colored face of the girl exuded a youthful aura, the eyes of the water spirit were filled with innocent childishness, and the smooth neck and chest exuded temptation, making Zeus restless.
At this time, Eros in the sky was far away increasing his love of arrows. The king of the gods felt that all arrows pierced his heart, his mouth was dry and his heart was burning. He concealed his true form and turned into a fish, following a dreamlike girl. The operator of the flood and the thunder and lightning could not resist the soft fire of Paphia (the alias of Aphrodite), the sheepskin shield of Thor could not rival Aphrodite's warm belt, and the king of the gods finally became a slave who loved arrows!
When Semele boarded the east bank of the Asopus River, he comfortably changed into a new dry suit. At this moment, she had left all the terror brought by that terrible nightmare in the river, trembling into the comfortable breeze... [2]

Divine King Sui Yuan
Zeus returned to the Olympus Mountain in a state of uncertainty, thought about it over and over again, and decided to go to Semele that night.
He felt that time had become particularly long. He shifted his gaze to the west, hoping for the early arrival of the evening star. He shouted impatiently: "Helios, you know the madness of love, why not whip the god horse, make the solar car go faster across the sky, and let the pioneer of love Hesperus come earlier? If I can go to Semele as early as I want, then you can also enjoy your Clumene earlier ! Don't torture me, as long as I want, I will cover you up with the daughter of Mist. At that time, the night will appear during the day, and the stars will shine at noon! Tell me, when will the jealous Eos, the goddess of dawn, leave in the late night? Now is the time for you to raise the torch and lead Zeus towards his beloved! Get your car, and I ask you, the bright moon, rising on the roof of the lovely Semele, to send out the soft light that makes trees and flowers grow, to light up my desire, because this combination will herald the birth of Dionysus, which plants cherish. For the pursuit of Zeus, please make the night more gentle and longer! "
At this moment, a huge black pine nut jumped out of the earth, rising higher and higher, creating a shadow that covered the entire earth. So Zeus eagerly crossed the starry sky and rushed to the city of Thebes.

When he arrived in front of the Cadmus Palace, the crossbar on the palace door fell off by itself, and the palace doors automatically opened one by one. He hurried to the boudoir of Princess Semele, and finally the eager bride was firmly held in his irresistible arm
The horned god bent over the bed of mortals and called with a bull like voice, just like the horned Dionysus later. Immediately, he transformed into a black panther, a male lion with fluffy neck hair, as if foreshadowing his future son as a black panther rider and lion's ruler. Then, he became a young groom with curling snakes, Grape leaves and purple ivy wrapped around his head. Subsequently, he transformed into a writhing serpent, crawling on the trembling bride, gently licking and kissing her rosy neck, wrapping around her chest and firm breasts, making a hissing sound. He shouted 'Euoe', like the sound of a grape juice press, heralding the fervent cry loved by his future son and his followers. His crazy kisses, like fragrant honey and delicious divine wine soaked in it, made this bedmate who would bring him a son holding a wine wand ecstatic.
At this time, a grape tree was born from the bottom of the bed. Around Semele's bed, it sprouted and grew leaves, spread and crawled, and then bloomed, producing purple grape clusters
The satisfied God King comforted his bride and said, "My wife, I am Cronides You should be proud of having such a sacred husband! Among mortals, no child will be more noble than your future children: Danaë is not as noble as you; Your aunt Europa is not as good as you, she only enjoys the honor of going to Crete, and your ultimate destination is Olympus! After entering the starry Olympus, what else do you want? Europa's son Minos only enjoys the glory of Hades, while your future son Dionysus enjoys the glory of heaven! Happy woman, you have an immortal son who will make people forget their troubles, and because of him, you will also obtain unparalleled happiness and happiness