According to Greek mythology Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece, was home to the gods that people worshiped. Zeus was the father of all gods and was married to Hera. Hades reigned in the underworld and Poseidon in the seas. Afterwards, the rest of the gods were the sons of Zeus, in general, and each had their own ritual, prayers and offerings. Each god had its own history, lived in a crystal castle, had human form, never aged, had feelings, fed on ambrosia and nectar and could have children with human beings, ultimately demigods.
One of these demigods was Dionisio. He was the god of wine, it is true, of parties and disorder, but he was also the god who taught men to grow wine and make it. Men celebrated spring and how life is reborn at this time of year they celebrated it with many events, including acting competitions that eventually determined the birth of the theater. Dionysus was the son of Zeus but not of Hera. Zeus had it with Semele, the daughter of the king of Thebes. The myth says that Zeus fell in love and transformed into a human to seduce her but she did not want to know anything. Then he rebelled who he was and she, more alive, accepted him and conceived a son. But when she was six months pregnant, Hera appeared to her, extremely jealous, and told her that the man that man was not Zeus. Sémele distrusted and asked Zeus to present himself as god, to believe him, but Zeus was offended and struck her with lightning.
It was Hermes who managed to save the boy. He took it out of his mother's womb and cooked it on the thigh of Zeus where it remained for three months. A troubled birth had our god, right? Other myths say that Dionysus fell in love with Ariadne when Theseus abandoned her on Naxos after killing the minotaur. He married her, luckily.
Source: via Greece Guide
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