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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

Is there a Norse god who fills a similar role to Dionysos?
The Norse did not have theatre nor wine. There is no god of mead or beer as far as I know. There is no god or goddess of festivities I think but I'm happy to be proven wrong!

🏛 #Satyr giving a grapevine to Bacchus as a child; cameo glass, from first half of the 1st century CE Italy

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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"[Silenus] great nurse of Bakkhos [. . .] surrounded by the nurses young and fair, Naiades and Bacchae who ivy bear, with all your Satyrs."
Orphic Hymn 54 to #Silenus

🏛 #Silenos holding Baby Dionysos, "Papposilenos Dionysophoros", 350-300 BCE, Tanagra

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"He was accompanied [. . .] by a personal attendant and caretaker, Silenus, who was his adviser and instructor in the most excellent pursuits and contributed greatly to the high achievements and fame of Dionysos."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.4.3

🏛 #Silenos holding Baby Dionysos

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"[Dionysos] summoned Pherespondos, one of the swift like the wind, the offspring of the heavenly herald [Hermes], the clever son of Iphthime, and greeted him with friendly words : ‘Son of Hermes, herald that I love, go take this message to proud Deriades."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 18.313

🏛 Drinking cup (kylix) with Dionysos and a horny satyr, 490–480 BCE, Attica, Athens

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"Beardless Ampelos, they say, a Nymph's and a Satyr's son, was loved by #Bacchus on Ismarian hills [in Thrace]."
#Ovid, Fasti 3. 407

🏛 #Dionysos supported by #Ampelos, bronze, 1st century BCE - 1st century CE

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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"#Bacchus [Dionysos] himself, grape-bunches garlanding his brow, brandished a spear that vine-leaves twined, and at his feet fierce spotted panthers lay, tigers and lynxes too."
#Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.572

🏛 Relief of #Dionysos, #Ariadne & #Satyr

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