Myths of Fertility:

Demeter

Persephone

“the goddesses”

Pomegranate

The Eleusinian mysteries

Dionysius

Dionysus / Bacchus

god of wine

Zeus' thigh

male followers—satyrs, 2, 3

Thyrsus—staff with pine cone

Cart drawn by panthers

Marries Ariadne

Dionysus and the Pirates

Euripides Bacchae