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While reading a chapter of one of my fifteen-year-old son’s textbooks, I came across a topic that sounded intriguing; one that I hadn’t thought about in a long time. The subject matter: “Wine Gods.” Steeped in ancient history, wine’s link with religion; from Roman and Greek custom, a direct line can be traced to Christian belief and practices. Drinking wine for the Sacrament had a direct link with Jewish ritual but the most pronounced resemblances are with the Greek worship of Dionysus (the god of wine) and his Roman counterpart, Bacchus. It was Dionysus who brought the first celebrated vines to Greece, from Turkey (then Asia Minor).
The son of Zeus—Dionysus—was mythically born twice, the second time to a mortal. His blood was wine; he was the vine. He was the lone god among many whose legends emerge in other cultures with undeniable consistency.
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