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  • JeLLy says i'm a sex god. i took a sex personality quiz a while ago that said i was "Dionysis" in the bedroom. now THAT'S what i'm talkin 'about!!

    ...A Rabbit?!?!?... stardustcboy 2004

  • I don't have any money, said Dionysis Zindros , a 23-year old co-founder of Kamibu, an Internet start-up in Athens that makes software for game developers.

    Amid Greek Crisis, Some Try Tech Start-Ups Christopher Lawton 2011

  • The goal of demagoguery is power: “Dionysis established a claim to become tyrant when he accused … the rich, since his hostility to them caused him to be trusted as a true man of the people.”

    Is That Legal?: In the wake of the Kerry Remarks, Democrats are...WINNING. 2006

  • All the mystery schools of Osiris, Tammuz, Dionysis, Attis and so on included a rite—enacted by their human stand-ins—in which the god was anointed by the goddess prior to his actual or symbolic death, which would make the land fertile once more.

    The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

  • In the middle of the stage was a huge throne with carved lion paws for the priest of Dionysis.

    An Accidental Greek Wedding Carol Grace 2004

  • In the middle of the stage was a huge throne with carved lion paws for the priest of Dionysis.

    An Accidental Greek Wedding Carol Grace 2004

  • The little Theatre of Dionysis, for example, and the Temple of Zeus.

    An Accidental Greek Wedding Carol Grace 2004

  • All the mystery schools of Osiris, Tammuz, Dionysis, Attis and so on included a rite—enacted by their human stand-ins—in which the god was anointed by the goddess prior to his actual or symbolic death, which would make the land fertile once more.

    The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

  • The little Theatre of Dionysis, for example, and the Temple of Zeus.

    An Accidental Greek Wedding Carol Grace 2004

  • Mithras of the Persians, the Bacchus of the Greeks [god of drunkenness, or feasts and the like], the Dionysis of the fraternity of artificers, and the Atys of the Phrygians, whose passions, deaths, and resurrections were celebrated by these people respectively. '

    The Revelation Explained 1913

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