![]() ![]() (1) Dionysus Mentored by Rhea-Cybele (Phrygian mother goddess) DIONYSOS-SABAZIOS (PHRYGIA)įor MYTHS of Dionysos-Sabazios in Phrygia see: (Sabazios, Tammuz, Osiris, Orotalt, Indian-god) I. The Greeks had a number of myths explaining the links between these gods, and adopted myths of foreign origin into the Dionysian saga.įor MORE information see Dionysus Identified with Foreign Gods His birth place, Mt Nysa, was similarly identified with a number of eastern holy mountains in Phoenicia, Egypt, Arabia, and India. This page describes the adventures in the East: Egypt and Libya, Syria and Phoinikia, Phrygia and Anatolia, and distant reaches of India.ĭionysos was closely identified by the Greeks with a number of Eastern vegetation gods: Egyptian Osiris, Phoenician Tammuz, Arabian Orotalt, Phrygian Sabazios, and the vegetation god of the Indians. The first two "Myth" pages describe the god's birth, childhood and adventures in Greece.ĬLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES DIONYSUS IN THE EAST (SUMMARY) This page contains tales of Dionysos set in Anatolia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Syria and India including his wanderings, flight from Typhoeus, mentoring by Kybele, and Amazon and Indian wars. Liber, Bacchus Child Dionysus riding tiger, Greco-Roman mosaic from Thysdrus, El Djem Archaeological MuseumĭIONYSOS was the Olympian god of wine, vegetation, pleasure, festivity, madness and frenzy. ![]()
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