Radcliffe Edmonds says: "Lobeck 1892 seems to be responsible for the use of the name Zagreus for the Orphic Dionysos. They deposited them in a sacred cave on the isle and instituted the Samothrakian Mysteries in his honour.Īccording to Timothy Gantz, "Orphic sources preserved seem not to use the name "Zagreus", and according to Martin West, the "name was probably not used in the Orphic narrative". In another tale, the genitals of Sabazius were recovered by the Kabeiroi gods of Samothrake. From the drink she conceived the younger Dionysos, as a reincarnation of the first. Zeus recovered the child's heart and making it into a potion, fed it to one of his many lovers: Semele. Stories from the Orphic Hymns has the Titans, who were opposed to Zeus' power, Titans snuck into Olympos, take the child to the woods and beguile him with toys, then dismembered him and consumed the child except for his heart. Very little is known about the background of the Orphic Dionysus aside from the fact that he was regarded as the child of Zeus and Persephone. In the Orphics, Dionysus is generally referred to as Sabazius or Eubuleus (Which was an epithet for Hades) if he's not referred to as Dionysus. The only recorded instance where Zagreus is used as a name for the Orphic Dionysus is in Nonnos' Dionysiacas. He was later equated with the Orphic Dionysus, who was regarded as the "first-born Dionysus." According to Orphic hymns, he was the son of Zeus and Persephone, who Zeus seduced in the form of a drakon (dragon-like serpent), though an Aeschylus fragment from the 5th century BCE claims that Hades was his father. Zagreus was an Underworld God of the Orphic mysteries.
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