Deity of the month: Dionysus, aka Bacchus, aka Zagreus, aka Professor Shortpants.

Perhaps it’s simply that it’s August and there’s little else going on (except for some damn hubbub in China, which brings us no closer to peace without dinner, or victory without slip-N-slides…and how can anything be claimed as a victory unless some of the spoils involve slip-N-slides, I ask ye?), or perhaps it’s just a simple contemplation of how differently our world might be now had we chosen to throw our bank in with a different ancient deity.  Always so serious we are, Occidental materialists! If it weren’t for the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the Presleyterians I’d find myself spending far too much time watching the remake of the Scatman video featuring World of Warcraft, and none of us truly wants that.  So, to begin what will hopefully be a repeating monthly thing, I present one of my personal favorites from ancient Greece: Dionysus/Bacchus.