To Devour is the Theme of the Hour

Thick in the swamp of broken and outdated ideologies. Stories as Orphic Mysteries — Part 2.

Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing by William Blake (c.1786)

Summary:

• The union of myth and faith through liturgy on full display, our collective identities have long been shaped by group worship.
  

• Dionysus was the Greek god often associated with intensity or hyper-reality. The arc of Dionysus’ identity — particularly the duality of his nature — is a very significant reflection of our times. His fixture on the global stage is a mirror for our collective state of mind. Sure, we’re not worshipping Dionysus as they would in the old days, but attention is attention. When you hyper-focus on something, you give it the creative attention anything needs to come to life. Times that by a world audience and you’ve got the biggest altar of human attention… all eyes on the god of madness.
  

• Dionysus is an invitation to embrace our own multidimensional identity, while in his shadow form, he is a reflection of the challenges we face as a society in finding solid footing in who we are (causing us to slip into states of our own madness).
  

• Orphic mysteries believed Dionysus was ultimately dismembered and devoured by the Titans. The Titans were pre-Olympian gods who ruled the cosmos. They were essentially rogue and uncultured bandits who turned the promise of civilization into a wasteland — not unlike what we see in our society at this hour.