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  2. Dionysus - Wikipedia

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    Wine was a religious focus in the cult of Dionysus and was his earthly incarnation. [13] Wine could ease suffering, bring joy, and inspire divine madness. [14] Festivals of Dionysus included the performance of sacred dramas enacting his myths, the initial driving force behind the development of theatre in Western culture. [15]

  3. Dionysus in comparative mythology - Wikipedia

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    Dionysus, the god of wine, theatre, and ecstasy in ancient Greek religion, has been compared to many other deities, both by his classical worshippers and later scholars.. These deities include figures outside of ancient Greek religion, such as Jesus, [1] Osiris, [2] Shiva, [3] and Tammuz, [4] as well as figures inside of ancient Greek religion, such as Had

  4. Jesus in comparative mythology - Wikipedia

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    Although Frazer himself did not explicitly claim that Jesus was a "dying-and-rising god" of the supposedly typical Near Eastern variety, he strongly implied it. [211] Frazer's claims became widely influential in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century scholarship of religion, [205] [206] [204] but are now mostly rejected by modern scholars.

  5. Dionysian Mysteries - Wikipedia

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    The bull (from whose horn wine was drunk) and goat (whose flesh provided wineskins, and whose browsing pruned the vines) were also part of the cult, eventually seen as manifestations of Dionysus. Some of these associations had been linked with fertility deities (like Dionysus) and became part of his new role.

  6. Cult of Dionysus - Wikipedia

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    In addition, Dionysus is known as Lyaeus ("he who unties") as a god of relaxation and freedom from worry and as Oeneus, he is the god of the wine press. In the Greek pantheon, Dionysus (along with Zeus) absorbs the role of Sabazios, a Phrygian deity. In the Roman pantheon, Sabazius became an alternate name for Bacchus. [14]

  7. Nysa (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Dionysus has been coined the "masked god," "wine god," and "god of theater" due to his androgynous appearance [5] and ability to hide his true self under facades and enthusiasm. Many Greek stories believe Dionysus to be the son of Zeus, [1] separated and placed in the care of Nysa nymphs in an attempt to protect him from Hera's anger towards ...

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    Despite this, the performance that featured drag queens, a transgender model, a naked singer posing as the Greek god of wine Dionysus, and a child, led to criticism from the Catholic Church, with ...

  9. Transubstantiation - Wikipedia

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    Transubstantiation – the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharistic Adoration at Saint Thomas Aquinas Cathedral in Reno, Nevada. Transubstantiation (Latin: transubstantiatio; Greek: μετουσίωσις metousiosis) is, according to the teaching of the Catholic Church, "the change of the whole substance of bread into the substance of the Body of Christ and of the whole substance of wine ...