Ayla Maya By Philip Werner

Ayla Maya by Philip Werner

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Mt Dandenong National Park

Victoria, Australia

October, 2011.

mythology series → the minotaur’s sister ariadne [Ἀριάδνη]

out of the maze revealing secrets we kept on the way who knows who’s right breaking the chains i’m gonna give up my future to fate now i’m alright eventually i saw what was not clear to my eyes for all my life thought i had friends i could confess my fears and my hopes no more tears, no more fights  each one is free to take his own way out you take yours, i’ll take mine out of the maze

. : one moment : . by Martin-Pfister

Dionysus was rarely without his thiasus in his travels. Below is a summary of those who traveled with him across the world. Family members and lovers will be discussed in other posts, so these are his followers and friends.

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Marble relief of Dionysos accompanied by a panther

2nd Century A.D.

Photographed by Roloff Beny

The world man knows, the world in which he has settled himself so securely and smugly—that world is no more. The turbulence which accompanied the arrival of Dionysos has swept it away. Everything has been transformed. But it has not been transformed into a charming fairy story or into an ingenuous child’s paradise. The primeval world has stepped into the foreground, the depths of reality have been opened, the elemental forms of everything that is creative, everything that is destructive, have arisen, bringing with them infinite rapture and infinite terror. The innocent picture of a well-ordered routine world has been shattered by their coming, and they bring with them no illusions or fantasies, but truth.

~Walter F. Otto, “Dionysos: Myth and Cult,” 1933.