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According to the Bibliotheca, their great-grandfather was Dionysus, and he gave them the power to change water into wine, grass into wheat, and berries into olives.For this reason no one around them ever had to starve. [4]
Midas asked that whatever he might touch would turn to gold. Dionysus consented, though was sorry that he had not made a better choice. Midas rejoiced in his new power, which he hastened to put to the test. He touched and turned to gold an oak twig and a stone, but his joy vanished when he found that his bread, meat, and wine also turned to gold.
Studying Jesus in comparative mythology, the story of the transformation of water into wine bears some resemblance to a number of stories that were told about the ancient Greek god Dionysus, who among others was said to fill empty barrels that had been left locked inside a temple overnight with wine. [16]
The Oenotropae were sisters who had been blessed by Dionysus with the power to change water into wine, grass into wheat, and berries into olives. When the Greeks set off to conquer Troy, Agamemnon, finding their skill useful, abducted them, but they escaped and Dionysus turned them all into white doves in order to save them. Ortygius ("quail")
Miraculously, Dionysus turns the drink into wine. [89] The account of turning water into wine does not occur in any of the Synoptic Gospels and is only found in the Gospel of John, [90] indicating that the author of the fourth gospel may have invented it.
Dionysus woos her and offers her a number of gifts, which she despises. After a day hunting, Nicaea drinks from a river whose waters are turned into wine, following Dionysus' earlier intervention in the first battle against the Indians. Inebriated, Nicaea falls asleep and is raped by the god as a punishment for killing Hymnus.
The original rite of Dionysus (as introduced into Greece) is associated with a wine cult (not unlike the entheogenic cults of ancient Central America), concerned with the grapevine's cultivation and an understanding of its life cycle (believed to have embodied the living god) and the fermentation of wine from its dismembered body (associated ...
Acratopotes, one of Dionysus' companions and a drinker of unmixed wine. Aegir, a Norse divinity associated with ale, beer and mead. Aizen Myō-ō, Shinto god of tavern keepers. Ampelos, Greek lover of Dionysus transformed into the grapevine. Amphictyonis, Greek goddess of wine and friendship. Ash, Egyptian God of Wine and Oases.