Daemonia Nymphe - Hymn to Bacchus

Daemonia Nymphe - Hymn to Bacchus Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and intoxication, known as Bacchus to Romans. Hymn To Bacchus [Διονύσου] Χαίρε Νύμφαι, χαίρε Βάκχε Κικλήσκω Διόνυσον ερίβρομον, ευαστήρα, πρωτόγονον, διφυή, τρίγονον, Βακχείον άνακτα, άγριον, άρρητον, κρύφιον, ερνεσίπεπλον, Ευβουλεύ, πολύβουλε, Διός καί Περσεφονείης, αρρήτοις λέκτροισι τεκνωθείς, άμβροτε δαίμον Ευβουλεύ, πολύβουλε, δικέρωτα, δίμορφον, κισσόβρυον, εύιον ωμάδιον, ταυρωπόν, Διός καί Περσεφονείης αρρήτοις λέκτροισι τεκνωθείς, άμβροτε δαίμον κλύθι, μάκαρ, φωνής, ηδύς δ' επίπνευσον αμεμ[φ]ής ευμενές ήτορ έχων, σύν ευζώνοισι τιθήναις. Dionysus or Dionysos, Greek: Διόνυσος or Διώνυσος, is the ancient Greek god of wine, wine cups, wineskin, grapes, theater, and fertility. The god who inspires ritual madness, joyful worship, and ecstasy, carnivals, celebration and a major figure of Greek mythology. He is included as one of the twelve Olympians in some lists. Dionysus is typical of the god of the epiphany, "the god that comes". He was also known as Bacchus, the name adopted by the Romans and the frenzy he induces, bakkheia. In addition to winemaking, he is the patron deity of agriculture and the theater. Hailed as an Asiatic foreigner, he was thought to have had strong ties to the East and to Ethiopia in the South. He was also known as the Liberator (Eleutherios), freeing one from one's normal self, by madness, ecstasy or wine. The divine mission of Dionysus was to mingle the music of the aulos and to ...