Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"[Silenus] great nurse of Bakkhos [. . .] surrounded by the nurses young and fair, Naiades and Bacchae who ivy bear, with all your Satyrs."
Orphic Hymn 54 to #Silenus

🏛 #Silenos holding Baby Dionysos, "Papposilenos Dionysophoros", 350-300 BCE, Tanagra

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Archaeologists have discovered a monumental frieze depicting worshipers of Dionysus in a newly excavated portion of Pompeii. The near-life-size paintings portray a procession of Dionysiac figures participating in an initiation ritual as part of the deity’s mystery cult.

https://wildhunt.org/2025/03/maenads-satyrs-and-initiates-friezes-of-dionysiac-mysteries-uncovered-in-pompeii.html

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"Make it quick, I have a date with the magnetic nymph."

#unix_surrealism #satyr #technomage #comic #foss #nietzsche #silenus

You think they'd at least recall Bacchus and his Maenads from their childhood Narnia reading. 🙄

https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/112876071261609255

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