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The Divine Youth was the Goddess' Partner in Creation. He was often known as the
"Year King" because his steady, non-aggressive role of renewal, ripening, harvest and death presaged the cycle of crop fertility. Invite the certainty of his Spirit into your own process of regeneration. Dionysus embodies gentleness and joy. Symbol of Divine Youth and Lord of Grain, Leaf and Vine, Dionysus was central to ancient Greek annual ceremonies involving blood sacrifice to ensure crop fertility. He carries the phallic wand, was escorted by maenad priestesses, and wears a panther skin. Celebrate joyful youth with Dionysus!
[Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City] Green/bronze colored Gypsumstone. #DY
see also: Sacred Sexuality
See also Green Man
see also: Greek and Roman items
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