When Dionysus grew up, he discovered the vine, and extracted the juice only to then be struck with madness by Hera who still had a grudge on him. The young boy was then taken to the rain nymphs of Mount Nysa they raised him through childhood, and to reward them for their care, Zeus placed the nymphs into the night sky as a new constellation, the Hyades. When Dionysus was three he was discovered by Hera who disposed of his guardians and their children by inflicting madness upon the household, him only surviving as Zeus turned him into a goat to hide him. Hermes had them raise Dionysus as a girl to hide him from Hera's scorn. Zeus sent the infant Dionysus off with Hermes, who took Dionysus to Athamas, king of Orchomenos, and his wife, Ino, Semele's sister and Dionysus' maternal aunt. He was born a demigod, like Hercules and Perseus. The child remained there until he emerged fully-grown a few months later, atop Mount Pramnos on the island of Ikaria. Semele was burned to ashes, but Zeus managed to save the infant, and sewed him into his thigh. The next time Zeus visited her, Semele did as Hera advised, and though he tried to get around it, Zeus was bound by oath and so revealed to her his true divine form. While in disguise, Hera convinced Semele to ask Zeus to reveal his true form and, to make sure that he would do it, to have him swear on the River Styx, which is sacred to the Greek gods and an unbreakable oath. She disguised herself as an old woman (or as Semele's nurse in some stories) and made Semele begin to doubt that it was truly Zeus. This makes him the only Olympian to have a mortal parent, and according to some traditions the only one to have been born a demigod.Īs with most of Zeus' acts of infidelity, Hera was enraged when she found out that Semele was pregnant with Zeus' child. His mother was a mortal woman named Semele, daughter of Cadmus, king of Thebes, and his father was Zeus. 3.2.1 Leo Valdez and the Quest for Bufordĭionysus was often called the 'twice born' because of the circumstances around his birth.
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