![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Pan and Dionysus, who were demoted to the nether regions of hell by the Medieval church, point to the realm of the orgiastic experience of natural and instinctual life. They represent “divinities”–namely autonomous creative drives, independent of man’s volition–which are related to the lunar or earthly world of generativeness, joy, lust, sexuality, growth and renewal through life and death cycles of nature, rather than through rationality and mental discipline. (The world of discipline, order and harmony was represented in Greece by Apollo, who was brother and partner to Dionysus–they shared the sanctuary at Delphi–as well as his antithesis.) Dionysus was also worshipped at Eleusis as Hades, the lord of the underworld, of the unconscious and of death, and in Egypt as Osiris, who suffers, is dismembered and rises from the dead therefore he has to do with the power of the mystery of life’s renewal.” (pp. Whitmont said, in his The Symbolic Quest: Basic Concepts of Analytical Psychology, (1991 revised text, originally published in 1969), Princeton University Press ![]()
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