"However, the story of Dionysus is not over." Titus took a sip of water, "Dionysian beliefs don't just want to let blood. Tearing is only a means, and rebirth is the end - for Dionysus actually had three. Dionysus of the past, Dionysus of the present, and Dionysus of the future. The first Dionysus, Zagreus, the son of Zeus and the Queen of Hades, was torn to pieces by the Titan gods, but he was 'not dead', Zeus found Zagreus's heart and reborn it in the womb of his lover Princess Semele. However, Princess Semele was slain by Hera with a thunderbolt, and the son of her womb was 'unborn': this is now Dionysus. The original meaning of the word Dionysus was 'to be born again'. ”

"How I feel like something big is going to happen."

Checkmate is not dead, will be alive but not born. This series of symbols gave Shang Luo a premonition that "the mountain rain is coming".

"Yes, big things will happen. The Dionysus we see now was not actually born, he was struck by lightning in his mother's womb, he was not endowed with full humanity, Zeus sewed him in his thigh before giving him a form. Checkmate is not dead, will be born and unborn, the divinity from the god of Hades has been passed down here. At the third birth, Dionysus truly descended into the world. ”

"Dionysian belief in the hope of Dionysus coming?"

"No, no, no, the main body of the Roman Dionysian belief is the other way around—we are afraid of the real coming of Dionysus. Because unlike the sun god Apollo, Apollo was a young god, and his divinity came from Zeus himself. And Dionysus, the god of wine, is much more terrifying, and its divine essence is an ancient god! The time of the Old God is different from ours, and it needs a 'birth' in order to lock in the time it is in to us. ”

"Could it be that the assassination of the king of the forest, as well as the tearing bull, are all the background colors of the ancient gods?"

Yes, this is also why Dionysus can be considered alongside Apollo. Apollo symbolizes the beautiful dreams of mankind, while Dionysus symbolizes the bloody past of mankind in ancient times. You can't tell if the wine is shaking in his glass or blood, or whether it's blood or wine dripping from the corner of his mouth. The delicacy of Dionysus is only a cover for the essence of the old gods, and if Dionysus is born for the third time, it will be all blood and no wine. ”

"So what the hell is this, which old god?"

"God Hunter! He is the ancient god of hunting alongside the ancient god Gaia, the supreme god, the eternal duality of mythology. The hunting god repeats itself, sprouting in the summer, flourishing in the fall, dying in the winter, and being reborn in the spring. The same is true of the Earth Mother Goddess, who happily welcomes the return of the Hunter in the long summer and wanders alone in the winter. Therefore, in the belief of Dionysus, there is also a difference between the god of wine and the god of hunting. The rituals performed in Rome were the 'Orpheus', who revered the Dionysian side of Dionysus and held Dionysian revelry, but there were also sects called the 'Eleusian Mysticism', which more strongly invoked the torn bull to symbolize the rupture and rebirth of the old gods. Except for them, no one wanted such a raging old god to become the next god-king. ”

He looked at the sky: "Of course, I personally would prefer the return of our young god Apollo to such a violent ancient god. ”

[Hey~ give you a little red flower.] 】

"The Hunter will become the God King, so, is this something that has already been determined? I mean, has it been verified? Shang Luo asked

"Very rigorous questioning. But it is clear from the genealogy that every rebirth of Dionysus is accompanied by the figure of the Earth Mother God, or Ceres. Persephone, who gave birth to him for the first time, was the daughter of the Mother Mother God, and Semele, who gave birth to him for the second time, was the more subtle Mother Mother God. The third birth, in mythology, refers directly to Gaia herself, the mother of the earth. ”

"Wait, is this a partner, or a child?"

"Don't measure God's genealogy by worldly ethics. The mythical husband and wife, brothers, and parents are only a metaphor for relative positions, not ethical relationships in the true sense. The metaphor of husband and wife is the dual god, the metaphor of parent-child is the overflow of divinity, the metaphor of brother is the division of divinity, the metaphor of copulation is the fusion and reorganization of divinity, and the metaphor of the girl is the purity and intolerance of divinity. So, well."

He looked at the ceiling again:

"So if the young god Apollo returns, I personally still hope that she will come back as a girl. Pure and indivisible sun god.,What a wonderful existence.,And the girl is more cute, isn't it.。 It's not just me, many people think this way now, after all, the god of wine is too much of a toss, and the stinky boy of adolescence goes crazy at every turn. ”

[Eh, hey, hey~ give you a big red flower. 】

"Tsk" Shang Luo felt as if he had heard something terrible.

"Forget it, I'm probably just dreaming. If only Apollo could really return as a maiden god, the feminine name should be Apollonia, and I will always be loyal to Apollonia or something, go on, I just talked about metaphors, right? Therefore, Zeus, the god-king, would pull him over to intercourse whenever he needed to emphasize the supreme divinity, so he would feel a mess when he sorted out the divine genealogy later. In fact, you can treat every interaction between the gods as if they happened independently, because the gods are free and eternal, and time has no meaning to the gods. ”

"How does it feel like a tool stallion."

"Yes." Titus nodded, "From a mythological point of view, Zeus rushed around the field to breed, which is essentially no different from the stallions in the horse farm, and he pulled over when he needed - these are all actions in the field of symbols, and they are myths. Mythology, on the other hand, is history that is revealed through stories, and it is the eternal continuation of history. The older the history, the stronger it is, the stronger it becomes. Or rather, it's a 'meme'. ”

He drew a double helix on the blackboard:

"Just as humans in the physical world use genes to record genetic information, the symbolic world uses memes to genetically. Memes from the ancient god of hunting have always been entangled in the genealogy of the god of wine, and even revealed inadvertently. The memes of the god hunters have been inextricably linked to the mother goddess for generations, and they are also mixed with the memes of the god-king Zeus, our god-king. That's why the power of the Forest King is terrifying, because it points directly to the foundation of the symbolic world, to the most obscure part of human history. We were all born in the dark sea of blood, and the return of the god hunter will bring us back to the sea of blood. It is an old god, but it can be—and perhaps will be our king. ”

He pointed out the window:

"The king of the forest that you are going to crusade against is the god of hunting and the king, and it is the divine meme of the god hunter that entangles Rome and is our fate. So Shang Luo, this is the divinity carried on the golden branch - it is the meme of the hunting god, the boundless sea of blood and boundless karma engraved in the history of the ages. I have told you what you may be facing, and no one has been able to carry it before, and it has caused all the loaders to die by the sword and drown in their own blood. Hope you're prepared. If you can." He touched the door of his head,

"I mean, if you can, you'd better not have copulation, let alone have children, and even less have children of your own like Zeus. This is for your safety, otherwise the third birth will directly let the God Hunter God King descend into the world, and then the fun will be great. If nothing else, he will kill the monarch's father. You don't want to be stabbed to death by your own Son of God, do you? ”

(End of chapter)