The Difference

According to him, Dionysus and I were once the same entity. We split. In mythology, Zagreus dies. Part of his essence is reborn as Dionysus.

I think it is that experience that divides us.

The mystery of Dionysus is life– the uninterupted, eternal process of life. The mystery of Zagreus is that life and death are an eternal cycle.

Dionysus, the latest expression of that energy that we share, does not die again. He ascends to godhood. He descends to the underworld, but not as one of the dead or as Lord of Souls. He does not stay, does not partake of death himself.