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OpenQwerty
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Dionysos or the mushroom god
#28492774 - 10/05/23 05:28 AM (3 months, 22 days ago) |
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....Every deity is "the other" par excellence. Every god is inexplicable and unknowable. We should be really careful with every form of anthropomorphization of any god. Dionysos, for example is more "like a mushroom" than "like a man". A mushroom that actually think and that actually has an his own will, but a mushroom nevertheless. Someone else is aware of this "issue": https://forestdoor.wordpress.com/2023/10/02/mycogenous/ So, it's surprising that the Shroomery has no yet a tread about "Dionysos as mushroom". This is because the 90% of the folks here has a strong christian background but -cmon guy, let's discuss it. Quote: "For this Dionysos is not the familiar god of the wild animal, or the verdant vine, but rather a fungal god – not just symbolically but literally. He is the Dionysos that brings life out of death, that dissolves boundaries, that opens doors, that effects transformation…all through the varied manifestations of the fungal kingdom. And no, I am not just referring to mushrooms (mind-altering or otherwise), although they are part of it. I’m also talking about the kind of fungus that rots the dead, the kind that intertwines with trees, the kind that turns grapes into wine, the kind that heals, the kind that destroys, the kind that spreads and changes everything it touches. I have taken to calling Him by the title Mycogenous Dionysos."
So, what is your experience? What do you think about the nature of Dionysos? Can we compare Him to a mushroom?
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Re: Dionysos or the mushroom god [Re: OpenQwerty] 1
#28493539 - 10/05/23 06:42 PM (3 months, 21 days ago) |
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The thyrsus resembles the spine and pineal cone.
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Re: Dionysos or the mushroom god [Re: syncro] 1
#28497363 - 10/09/23 08:12 AM (3 months, 18 days ago) |
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The humans followers of Dyonisos handle the thyrsus so it's coerent to said that it may resemble their vertebral column and their pineal gland. But at the same time the thyrsus may simbolize the stem and an ovate cap of a mushroom. The pinecone is full of seeds like a cap is full of spores. Again, even when we talk about Dyonisos - one of the more "human-friendly" of the Gods if we compare him, for example whit Gods like Nyx, the Night, (even Homer talk about that God) that rarely interact with humans and that we can immagine only whit a really big effort- we should remember that we are not "the centre" of anything, and that the Gods are not like us. For example...What an intelligent being - but one lacking of the vertebral column, for example an octopus- will think about the thyrsus? (And what that octopus will think meeting Dyonisos? If that octopus knew the mushrooms will he compare the God whit the shrooms? I guess that even the octopus will notice the "similarity"). So, the nature of Dyonisos, and all things related to him may be really coerent explained whitout to put the humans "at the centre": for example (and it is a really coerent example) talking about "to be mushroom alike". Dyonisos is more like a mushroom that "like a man". A mushroom who has feelings and a really strong willed one, (and a deathless one) but a mushroom nonetheless. This, at least, is my opinion.
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Re: Dionysos or the mushroom god [Re: OpenQwerty]
#28497601 - 10/09/23 12:37 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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Could say the nervous system resembles fungi, and skeletal structures are for gravity and such. I thought of the theory that shrooms evolve us for space travel.
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Re: Dionysos or the mushroom god [Re: syncro]
#28497667 - 10/09/23 01:37 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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As for the spinal structure evolved for enlightenment which is said, it's above my grade. Perhaps it is incidental, and the octopus is highly intelligent it would seem is self-reflective.
Key in spiritual anatomy is the central channel in the spine, the sushumna, and the evolution of the whole CNS, brain.
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