Blessed Dionysus ~ Personification of Chaos & Renewal

In ancient Greek mythology, Dionysus (daɪ.əˈnaɪsəs) is the god of wine-making, fruit orchards, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre.

He was also known as Bacchus by the Romans; the frenzy he is said to induce was called baccheia.

As Dionysus Eleutherius "the liberator", his wine, music, and chaotically ecstatic dance free his followers from self-conscious fear and care, as well as subvert the oppressive restraints of the powerful.

His thyrsus, a fennel-stem sceptre, sometimes wound with ivy and dripping with honey, served as both a beneficent wand and a weapon that was used to destroy those who oppose the freedoms he represents and delivers.

Those who partake of his mysteries of Dionysus are believed to become possessed and empowered by the god himself.