![]() ![]() In the Norse case we also named Njörðr, Kvasir and possibly Mímir as associated gods who were all connected to the mythos of the sacred waters and to the mead cycle and who could theoretically correspond to some of the separate gods who were combined in the Vedic and Greek cases. Orion is said then to carry Cedalion, the servant of Hephaestus, around on his shoulders, whereas Thjazi carries Loki through the sky in the form of an eagle.Īs with the case of Soma, ancient commentators such as Diodorus Siculus believed there to have originally been several “Dionysuses.” These of course could have been several gods who were similar but distinct, or several instances of the same identical god, and these were then theoretically combined under the name of Dionysus to form the unitary mythos that has been left to us. Thus Oenopion, this Young Son of the lunar god Dionysus, as in the parallel cases, pierces the eye of the assailant hunter, just as Perceval stabs the eye of the thieving Red Knight, the youths under the watch of Aengus poke out Midir's eye, and as Thjazi (whose crime is both a theft and assault of a goddess) too has his eyes removed after his offense. Compare this assault to Thjazi abducting Iðunn in the Germanic parallel case, as well as the fact that Thjazi too is a giant and we have mentioned the questionable epithet skaut-giarn from the Eddic poem Hyndluljóð. In response to the assault of his daughter, Oenopion stabs Orion in the eye, blinding him. When the hunter and giant Orion comes to Oenopion's kingdom, he assaults and attempts to violate Oenopion's daughter, Merope. ![]() This son of Dionysus is Oenopion, who just like his doubles, the Horse Twins, is one of a pair of twins, his twin brother being Staphylus. The character of this son, then, could be impacted by a non-Indo-European influence of some kind, whether Egyptian or simply pre-Greek - however, we must remember that the Indo-European Young Son or Horse Twin god is also generally known for being a soma drinker (and distributer), thus the degree of outside influence on his character is indeterminate. Dionysus' son's name, meaning “wine drinker” or “wine-rich” relates him intimately to his father, to the vegetative power of the vine, and to the lunar liquid itself. ![]() Due to the apparent Egyptian influence on the Dionysus mythos, this son of the Greek god could be taken as repeating the lunar power of the father in the manner that Younger Horus does in relation to his father Osiris. Just as it is performed by the young Perceval in Chretien's Grail poem, by the youths in the kingdom of the Young Son Aengus, and perpetrated on the son of Osiris in the Egyptian case, so the eye poking is connected to the son of the Soma God Dionysus in the Greek case (in Vedic and Norse cases it is not directly connected to the Young Son(s)). The crucial “eye-poking” motif, always present in a similar form in the Lunar Cycle, is not absent from the Greek version either. Dionysus, Hades and Soma: The Greek Lunar Cycle Part 2 of 3
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