I did not think it possible this time of the year sucks. Where the next few weeks ahead I am pulled down into the underworld again. Cancer, surgery and the fates hold me close to their breasts… say a prayer for me… I am mighty sad.
Will I see “a flash of lightning Dionysus visible in emerald beauty” once more… I do hope so. “Hip Hip.”
This is the time of letting go March to May…
Lenai is another name for Maenad, referring to the lenos, the wine press. The Lenaian vessels illustrate women dancing, making music, carrying the thyrsus, and pouring out wine before a pillar with the mask of Dionysos.
Aguilar, A. Marina. Alchemy of The Heart: The Sacred Marriage of Dionysos & Ariadne . Chiron Publications. Kindle Edition.
Celebration another year back… made it thought March again… and even the darkness comes to visit I have earned my way back… only shadows on the wall.
“a flash of lightning. Dionysus visible in emerald beauty.“
”(Today I bought an edition of Dithyrambs of Dionysus by Nietzsche… a thrift-store purchase. October /3/2021)
Photo by Hudley “Lizard the Wizard”
And in your hand brandishing your night-lighting flame, with god-possessed frenzy you went to the vales of Eleusis where the whole people of Hellas’ land, alongside your own native witnesses of the holy mysteries, calls upon you as Iacchus: for mortals from their pains.
“On an island in the sun
We’ll be playin’ and havin’ fun
And it makes me feel so fine
I can’t control my brain.”
Two and a half years ago
I made it back
From the darkness…
To light
Today I celebrate
While driving home
From my secret market
The special song came on
my car radio
I remember the first day
I awoke
From the darkness to light
It was such a sight
Wizard the Lizard
Doing arm lifts
Singing
“Hip Hip”
Up and down
“Hip Hip”
On top of the red brick
Next to the Wild Promethean Fennel
The aroma still in my nose
When I heard the beat
I was walking around the block
I heard the song Island in The Sun
neighbor kids were rocking out
guitar, drums and singing
In their garage.
Today yes today
Driving home
On the anniversary of
Returning to the light
The song played
On my car radio.
In my brain again
I reached up as
The Promethean Thyrsus
Pulled me up and out
Dionysus declaring to me…
“Hip hip
Hip hip”
“We’ll never feel bad anymore (Hip hip)
No no (Hip hip)
Hip hip
We’ll never feel bad anymore (Hip hip)
No no (Hip hip)
Hip hip
We’ll never feel bad anymore.”
*An inscription found on a stone stele (c. 340 BC), found at Delphi, contains a paean to Dionysus, which describes his travels.[98] From Thebes, where he was born, he first went to Delphi where he displayed his “starry body”, and with “Delphian girls” took his “place on the folds of Parnassus”,[99] then next to Eleusis, where he is called “Iacchus” “,
Dionysos with Sirius in noting the similarity of the words Iachos (a Cretan variation on the name Bacchus) and Iakar, the Minoan name for Sirius. Finally, the ancient Greeks themselves considered the vine itself to be a gift of the star Sirius.
Aguilar, A. Marina. Alchemy of The Heart: The Sacred Marriage of Dionysos & Ariadne . Chiron Publications. Kindle Edition.
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