The Open court . ory of all three. We meet withkindered traditions everywhere, especially of those who appear onearth in human form, are born in lowly circumstances, among thepeasants in a rustic district, sometimes in a stable and usually in acave. Dionxsus was cradled in a Idiiniis. a food measure fromwhich the cattle are icd, and the Christ-child lay in a manger. idle underlying idea of all the ancient religi<tns seems to bethat the gods are human and that nol)le men are divine. Nothingthat is human is dremed unworthy of a god. So all the gods havetheir consorts, and the gols must pass t
The Open court . ory of all three. We meet withkindered traditions everywhere, especially of those who appear onearth in human form, are born in lowly circumstances, among thepeasants in a rustic district, sometimes in a stable and usually in acave. Dionxsus was cradled in a Idiiniis. a food measure fromwhich the cattle are icd, and the Christ-child lay in a manger. idle underlying idea of all the ancient religi<tns seems to bethat the gods are human and that nol)le men are divine. Nothingthat is human is dremed unworthy of a god. So all the gods havetheir consorts, and the gols must pass through the ordeal of death ( 87 as well as iiuii. \\c arc not snlficicntl\ iiifoniKd ahmit whatniioht 1)0 called the doi^nias nf (Ireek ])a,!L;anism, l)ut \vc know thatthere were many places famous for havinj;- a lomh of Zeus, whichcan only have been funerary shrines attached to Zeus temj)les, wherethe annual death of the j^od was bemoaned with a subsequent cele-bration iii his victorious HERMES THE CHILD DIONYSUS. One of the favorite t^ods whose name is identitied with tluidea of joy and exuberance of life is Dionysus, the L;(d of wine, anda representative of the resurrection, lie is the .son of Zeus andSemelc, the latter beint;- ])resumably a .goddess of the moon. Likeall saviour o-ods he was the objtcl of perfidious perstcution even 88 THE OPEN COURT. l)ef(jre he was horn, for Hera in. her jealousy suggested to Semelethe wisli of seeing her lover in his full divinity. Zeus heing obligedby his oath to fulfil her wish, granted her request and so Semeledied thriMgh her own fault, for no one eould sec Zeus and live.
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