Dionysus discovered the vine, and being driven mad by Hera he roamed about Egypt and Syria. 🍷🗿
------Apollodorus,Library,book 3,chapter 5
He [Dionysus] was also called Dimetor (Of Two Mothers), they relate, because the two Dionysoi were born of one father[Zeus], but of two mothers [Persephone (former), Semele (later)]. The younger one [Dionysus] also inherited the deeds of the older [Zagreus], and so the men of later times, being unaware of the truth and being deceived because of the identity of their names, thought there had been but one Dionysus.
------ Diodorus Siculus, Library of History4.4.5
From Chaos came forth Erebus(Darkness) and Nyx(Night); but of Nyx were born Aether(Upper sky) and Hemera(Day) whom she conceived and bore from union in love with Erebus.
------Hesiod, Theogony[123-125]
From Aether and Dies(Day) were born Terra(Earth), Caelum(Sky), Thalassa(Sea).
------Hyginus, Fabulae, preface
So then, by engulfing Erikepaios the firstborn [Phanes], he [Zeus] had the body of all things in his belly, and he mixed into his own limbs the god's power and strength. Because of this, together with him, everything came to be again inside Zeus, the broad air and the lofty splendour of heaven, the undraining sea and earth's glorious seat, great Oceanus and the lowest Tartarus of the earth, rivers and boundless sea and everything else, and all the immortal blessed gods and goddesses, all that had existed and all that was to exist afterwards became one and grew together in the belly of Zeus. After he had hidden them all away, again into the glad light from his holy heart he brought them up, performing mighty acts.
------Orphica, Rhapsodies Fragment 167
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