Dionysus Rockstar

Dionysus Rockstar

-DIONYSUS THE OLYMPIAN ROCKSTAR GOD-

Dionysus is Zeus' and Semele's feminine-look son and a very major figure of Greek mythology as he is one of the twelve Olympians.Dionysus is the one who is born twice and who makes people find the inner selves of theirs and this is actually what rockstars do today and most of them are like warriors to their fans and still, most of them come across lots of girls chasing them and waiting for a quick sex and those rockstars really do make their fans more outspoken,self-confident and braver just like Dionysus does the same with his wine and music. Dionysus is the god of wine and seasons,the god who appears in a divine harmony of green,brown and red colors of the paintings and in the stories to mythology but he is also a figure of classical rockstars to me.
The story of Dionysus starts with Zeus the womanizer god of the sky and thunder,king of the gods and women.One day Zeus falls in love with a very beautiful mortal woman named Semele the daughter of king Cadmus of Thebes and then she not surprisingly gets pregnant by Zeus.Everything seems to be going well until Zeus' wife the suspiciously watchful goddess Hera shows up with a neat plan to tear these two lovers apart each other. Prudish Hera transforms herself into an old lady and befriends Semele and confuses her about who Zeus really is.Semele wants Zeus shows his real self and what she sees is a mind and body burning image of bolts of lightning and she very likely turns into dust and dies so hard the time she is pregnant to her son Dionysus.Zeus takes the fetus of Dionysus by putting him into his thigh to complete the birth.As we can see Dionysus has a very problematic birth so do some rockstars. Their lifes begin this way and this makes them write some sorrowful hits and because of this sorrowful mood,Dionysus has a constrained smile in his face in the paintings of Caravaggio's and Velázquez' just like Kurt Cobain*,Ian Curtis* or Jeff Buckley* has the same...

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