<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=524464" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bacchus</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who was Bacchus<br> <br>and why <br>was he </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the most <br>celebrated of the gods? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bacchus is the Greek name<br>of the Roman god Dionysus </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the god of the vine<br>the god of inspiration <br>bestower of ecstasy <br>and ecstatic liberation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What was sacred <br>to Bacchus? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The grape, ivy and rose <br>were sacred to Bacchus.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why was Bacchus so popular? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bacchus <br>the god of wine <br>was worshiped <br>with orgiastic <br>ecstatic rites.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> <br>Yes people still love <br>a party excessive <br>indulgence in <br>activity emotion </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the pleasure palace <br>of delight still entices</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> as Bob Dylan said <br>'everybody must get stoned' <br>reality escape ever popular</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;sacred drugs of society <br> changing with cultures <br> throughout cultures <br> throughout history&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What became of Bacchus <br>in the later Hellenistic era? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As Dionysus he was <br>the most loved of the gods <br>the greatest deity <br>of the later Hellenistic world.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because <br>he supposedly <br>taught men <br>to escape</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the confines <br>of their personalities <br>in an age before <br>Sigmund Freud.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">By yielding <br>to the ecstasy <br>of natural forces </div><div style="margin:10px 0">which permitted <br>people to know <br>the deepest mysteries </div><div style="margin:10px 0">of their gods.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ha. Sounds like <br>another hallucinogenic <br>drug trip<br> <br>orgy free sex festival <br>like remembered <br>1960s hippy stereotypes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I shall harken back <br>through more ancient <br>pages of memorial time </div><div style="margin:10px 0">to Genesis <br>book of Prophet Moses <br>as revealed by </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the One True God</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Creator of Heaven and Earth<br>who wrote the fabric of design <br>through DNA laws of physics</div><div style="margin:10px 0">upon this his immense <br>awesome universe <br>everything is his creation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>See also the poems ‘Latest Drugs On The Street' and ‘Dregs Have Flown'. <br></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=524464" data-title="Bacchus de Terence George Craddock" data-description="Who was Bacchus and why was he the most celebrated of the gods? Bacchus is the Greek name of the Roman god Dionysus the god of the vine the god of inspiration bestower of ecstasy and ecstatic liberation. What was sacred to Bacchus? ..."></div> </div> </div>

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