The Dionysion : Names of Dionysos

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Names and Epithets of Lord Dionysos

Lysiodoros

Sq Bullet Dionysos (Latinized as Dionysus): "Dionysos." Possibly "God of Nysa" or "Zeus of Nysa," Nysa being the Dionysiac sacred Mountain. The name may also derive from a pre-Greek original.
Through the derivative common ancient dedicatory name Dionysios (and particularly due to Pseudo-Dionysios the Aeropagite and Dionysios of Paris), the source of the modern Christian names Denis, Dennis, Denise, and Denny. passim

Sq Bullet Diônysos Variant spelling of Dionysos supra. Homeric Hymn to Diônysos

Agrios "The Wild One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Sq Bullet Aigobolos "The Goatslayer." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Otto

Aktaios "He of the Seacoast." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos at Chios. Otto

Anax Bakcheios "Bacchic Lord." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Sq Bullet Anax Dionysos "Lord Dionysos." Lysidôros, Dionysiakon

Anax Agreus "Lord Hunter"; a title used of Dionysos. Euripidês, Bakchai 1192

Anthrôporraistês "The Render of Humans." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Otto

Sq Bullet Arêion "The Martial One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Arrêtos "The Ineffable." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Sq Bullet Auxitês "The Grower, Bringer of Growth."An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Otto

Axios Tauros "The Worthy Bull." A title of Dionysos. Otto

Bakcheios "The Bacchic One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. At Sikyôn and Korinthos in the northern Peloponnesos, Dionysos Bakcheios was the Dark Aspect of the God in a complementary Dyad with Dionysos Lysios as the Light Aspect. Orphic Hymn to Dionysos, Pausanias; etc.

Sq Bullet Bakcheus "The Bacchic One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. On the island of Naxos in the Kyklades, Dionysos Bakcheus was the Dark Aspect of the Vinewood Mask in a complementary Dyad with Dionysos Meilichios as the Light Aspect of the Figwood Mask. See also Bakcheios. Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos; Athênaios

Sq Bullet Bakchos (Latinized as Bacchus) "Crier, Caller." The most ancient form of the Name appears to have been Vakchos (V=early Greek letter Vau or Digamma), probably from the same Indo-European root as Lat. vox ( "voice, call, cry"). Note that the Eleusinian Iakchos probably comes from a closely related ancient form Vivachos. By a pun,Vakchos also meant "The Scion (i.e., of Zeus)."
See also Bakcheios and Bakcheus.
passim

Sq Bullet Bassareus "The Fox-God." A Thracian allonym for Dionysos. Lord of the Bassarids. Otto

Bassaros "The Vulpine One." A variant form of Bassareus, a Thracian allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Lord of the Bassarids. Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos

Sq Bullet Botriephoros Probably a variant of Botryophoros below. Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Botryophoros "Bearer of Clusters of Grapes." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Sq Bullet Bougenês "The Oxborn One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Otto

Boukerôs "The Ox-horned One." An allonym and epithet and epithet for Dionysos. Otto

Bromios (Latinized as Bromius) "He Who Sounds/ Rumbles/ Roars." Cook thinks this refers to the thunder Dionysos inherited from Zeus. To some contemporary Dionysiacs, it refers to the metaphoric vibratory rumble of the sensed movement of great hidden Dionysiac energies, often perceived as a vibration in the spine, like the rumble of distant bass music.Neodionysiac variants: Hyperbromios refers to the deep vibration of celestial Dionysiac power like thunder, and Hypobromios to the deep vibration of chthonic Dionysiac power like a temblor. Aischylos, Eumenidês, et passim

Sq Bullet Bythios "The Deep." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Meliophis Thiasos

Charidôtês "The Giver of Grace." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Otto

Choreutês "The Dancer." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Sq Bullet Choroplekês "The Danceweaving One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Nonnos, Dionysiaka xliv

Chthonios "The Chthonic One; He of the Underworld." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos and many other Gods. passim

Sq Bullet Delphis "The Dolphin." An allonym for Dionysos. Meliophis Thiasos

Dendritês "The Tree God." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Pausanias, Otto

Dikerôtês "The Two-horned One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Sq Bullet Dimorphos "The Two-Formed One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. In addition to referring to His shapeshifting, see also Diphyês. Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Dionysos Agrios "Dionysos the Wild." Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Sq Bullet Dionysos Aigobolos "Dionysos Goatslayer." Otto

Dionysos Aktaios "Dionysos of the Seacoast" at Chios. Otto

Dionysos Anthestêrios "Dionysos of the Anthestêria festival." Meliophis Thiasos

Sq Bullet Dionysos Antheus "Dionysos the Blossoming One." See also Dionysos Anthios and Dionysos Euanthês. Of course associated with the Anthestêria festival. Kerényi, "Kabeiroi"; Otto; etc.

Dionysos Anthios "Dionysos of the Flowers." See also Dionysos Antheus and Dionysos Euanthês. Of course associated with the Anthestêria festival. Kerényi, "Kabeiroi"; Otto; etc.

Sq Bullet Dionysos Anthrôporraistês "Dionysos the Render of Humans." Otto

Dionysos Arêion "Dionysos the Martial." Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Dionysos Arrêtos "Dionysos the Ineffable." Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Sq Bullet Dionysos Auxitês "Dionysos the Grower, Bringer of Growth." Otto

Dionysos Bakcheios "Dionysos the Crier," or "Bacchic Dionysos." At Sikyôn and Korinthos in the northern Peloponnesos, Dionysos Bakcheios was the Dark Aspect of the God in a complementary Dyad with Dionysos Lysios as the Light Aspect. Pausanias

Sq Bullet Dionysos Bakcheus "Bacchic Dionysos." On the island of Naxos in the Kyklades, Dionysos Bakcheus was the Dark Aspect of the Vinewood Mask in a complementary Dyad with Dionysos Meilichios as the Light Aspect of the Figwood Mask. See also Dionysos Bakcheios. Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos ; Athêniaos

Sq Bullet Dionysos Bassareus "Dionysos the Fox-God." A Thracian Form, the Master of the Bassarides (Thracian Fox Mænades). .

Dionysos Bassaros "Vulpine Dionysos." A variant Form of Dionysos Bassareus, the Master of the Thracian Bassarides. Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos

Sq Bullet Dionysos Botriephoros "Dionysos the Bearer of Grape Clusters." Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Dionysos Bougenês "Dionysos the Oxborn." Otto

Dionysos Boukerôs "Ox-horned Dionysos." Otto

Sq Bullet Dionysos Bromios "Dionysos Who Bromes / Roars / Sounds." passim

Dionysos Charidôtês "Dionysos the Giver of Grace." Otto

Dionysos Choreutês "Dionysos the Dancer." Otto

Sq Bullet Dionysos Choroplekês "Danceweaving Dionysos." Nonnos, Dionysiaka

Dionysos Chthonios "Chthonic Dionysos; Dionysos of the Underworld." Otto

Dionysos Dendritês "Dionysos the Tree-God." According to Pausanias, worshipped nearly everywhere in Greece.
Some Hermetic Qabalistic Dionysiacs use this title in reference to the contemplative exercise of placing Correspondences (Aspects, Epithets, Implements, etc.) of the God in each of the 32 stations on the Tree of Life. Pausanias; Lysidôros, Dionysiakon

Sq Bullet Dionysos Dikerôtês "Dionysos the Two-horned"; probably refers to His well-known Bull Form. Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Dionysos Dimorphos "Dionysos of the Two Forms." See Diphyês. Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Sq Bullet Dionysos Diphyês "Dionysos of the Two Natures." Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Dionysos Dithyrambos "Dionysos the God of the Dithyramb Hymn." Burkert, Harrison, Otto, et passim

Sq Bullet Dionysos Eiraphiôtês "Dionysos the In-sewn One." Homeric Hymn to Diônysos i; et passim

Dionysos Ekstatikos "Dionysos the Ecstatic." Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Dionysos Ekstatophoros "Dionysos the Bringer of Ecstasy." Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Sq Bullet Dionysos Eleuthereus "Dionysos the Emancipator." Variant of Eleutherios. Also, "Dionysos of the city of Eleutherai." Pausanias

Dionysos Eleutherios "Dionysos the Emancipator." See also Lyaios and Lysios. Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Sq Bullet Dionysos Eribromios "Dionysos the Loud Sounder / Roarer." Homeric Hymn to Diônysos; et passim

Dionysos Ernesipeplos "Dionysos the Shoot-robed." Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Dionysos Eschatos "Dionysos the Furthest/ the Most/ the Extreme." Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Sq Bullet Dionysos Euanthês Dionysos the Fair Blossoming One." See also Antheus and Anthios. Otto

Dionysos Euastêr "Dionysos the Reveler (lit., He Who Shouts Eua)." Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Sq Bullet Dionysos Eubouleus "Dionysos the Good Counselor." Orphic Hymn to Dionysos; Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos

Dionysos Euergetês "Dionysos the Benefactor, the Doer of Good." Otto

Sq Bullet Dionysos Euios "Dionysos the Reveler (lit., He of the Shout Euoê)." Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Dionysos Gynaimanês "Dionysos Who Is Mad for Women." Homeric Hymn

Dionysos Hagnos "Dionysos the Pure, the Holy." Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Sq Bullet Dionysos Iatros "Dionysos the Healer." Otto

Dionysos Kallikarpos "Dionysos of Lovely Fruit." Otto

Dionysos Kissobryos "Dionysos the Ivy-Wrapped." Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Sq Bullet Dionysos Kissokomês "Ivy-Crowned Dionysos." Otto

Dionysos Kissos "Dionysos the Ivy." Otto

Dionysos Korymbophoros "Dionysos the Cluster-laden." Nonnos, Dionysiaka

Sq Bullet Dionysos Krêsios "The Cretan Dionysos." Otto

Dionysos Kryphios "Dionysos the Secret, the Hidden." Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Dionysos Lamptêr "Dionysos Bringer of Light/ Illuminator/ Torchbearer/ Lampbearer." God of the Lamptêria Festival. Kerényi, "Kabeiroi"; etc.

Sq Bullet Dionysos Lênaios "Dionysos of the Wine-press." Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos

Dionysos Liknitês "Dionysos of the Winnowing Fan Cradle." Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos; Burkert; Harrison; et passim

Sq Bullet Dionysos Limnagenês "Marshborn Dionysos" at Athens. Otto

Dionysos Limnaios "Dionysos of the Marsh" at Athens. passim

Dionysos Lyaios "Dionysos Bringer of Freedom." See also Eleutherios and Lysios. Otto; etc.

Sq Bullet Dionysos Lyseus "Dionysos the Liberator." Variant form of Dionysos Lysios. Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos

Dionysos Lysios "Dionysos the Liberator." At Sikyôn and Korinthos in the northern Peloponnesos, Dionysos Lysios was the Light Aspect of the God in a complementary Dyad with Dionysos Bakcheios as the Dark Aspect. See also Eleutherios and Lyaios and Meilichios. passim

Sq Bullet Dionysos Mainomenos "Dionysos the Maddened One." Often refers to the young God, maddened by Hera and healed by the ecstatic rites of Mêtêr Kybelê. Homeros, Iliad 6.132

Dionysos Makar "Dionysos the Blessed." Makar is a common epithet for any God. Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos

Sq Bullet Dionysos Manikos "Dionysos the Manic One, the Mad One, the Frenzied One." Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos

Dionysos Mantis "Dionysos the Diviner, the Seer, the Prophet, the Oracle." Otto

Sq Bullet Dionysos Meilichios "Dionysos the Gentle." On the island of Naxos in the Kyklades, Dionysos Meilichios was the Light Aspect of the Figwood Mask in a complementary Dyad with Dionysos Bakcheios as the Dark Aspect of the Vinewood Mask. See also Dionysos Lysios. Athênaios

Sq Bullet Dionysos Mêkônikos "Dionysos of the Poppies." Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Dionysos Melanaigis "Dionysos of the Black Goatskin." Ploutarchos; the Suda; etc.

Dionysos Meskalitos “Dionysos Mescalito, Dionysos of the Agave Plant (of Pulque, Mezcal, and Tequila) and of Peyote and Mescaline.” An American Neobacchic epithet identifying Dionysos with the Hispano-Nahuatl figure of ‘Mescalito’ brought to the attention of Anglophone readers by Carlos Castaneda. Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Sq Bullet Dionysos Morychos "The Dark Dionysos" at Syracuse. Polemon

Dionysos Nebrôdês "Dionysos in the Form of a Fawn." Anthologia Palatina

Dionysos Nyktelios "Dionysos of the Night." Ploutarchos

Sq Bullet Dionysos Nykterinos "Dionysos the Nocturnal One." Ploutarchos

Dionysos Nyktiphaês "Night-Illuminating Dionysos." Nonnos, Dionysiaka

Dionysos Nyktipolos "Dionysos the Night-Wanderer." Otto

Sq Bullet Dionysos Nysios "Dionysos of Nysa, the Sacred Mountain." Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos

Dionysos Oikêtôr "Dionysos the Indweller." Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Dionysos Ômadios "Dionysos of the Raw Feast." Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos; etc.

Sq Bullet Dionysos Ômêstês "Dionysos the Eater of the Raw." Otto

Dionysos Oreiarchês "Dionysos Lord of the Mountain." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Sq Bullet Dionysos Palaios "Dionysos the Ancient." Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Dionysos Paradoxos "Dionysos the Unexpected, the Paradoxical." Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Dionysos Paralogos "Dionysos the Inexplicable, the Unaccountable, Who Is Beyond Reason." Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Sq Bullet Dionysos Pelagios "Dionysos of the Sea" at Pagasai. Otto

Dionysos Perikionios "Dionysos Who is Entwined Around the Pillar(s)." Otto

Dionysos Phanês "Dionysos the Illuminator, the Manifestor, the Revealer." Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Sq Bullet Dionysos Philogaios "Dionysos Lover of the Earth." Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Dionysos Philogelôs "Dionysos Lover of Laughter." Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Dionysos Philogêthês "Dionysos Lover of Joy." Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Sq Bullet Dionysos Philoinos "Dionysos Wine-Lover." Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Dionysos Philomêtôr "Dionysos Lover of the Mother." Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Dionysos Philomousos "Dionysos Lover of the Muses." Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Sq Bullet Dionysos Ploutodotês "Dionysos the Bestower of Riches." Otto

Dionysos Polyboulos "Dionysos the Much-Counseling, Dionysos the Exceedingly Wise." Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Dionysos Polyeidês "Dionysos of the Many Images." Otto

Sq Bullet Dionysos Polygêthês "Dionysos of Much Joy; Dionysos of Many Joys." Orphic Hymn to Lysios Lenaios; etc.

Dionysos Polymorphos "Dionysos of the Many Forms." Otto

Dionysos Polyônomos "Many-Named Dionysos." Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos

Sq Bullet Dionysos Polyparthenos "Dionysos of the Many Maidens." Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos

Dionysos Prôtogonos "Dionysos the Firstborn." Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos

Dionysos Skêptouchos "Sceptre-Bearing Dionysos." Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos

Sq Bullet Dionysos Sôtêr "Dionysos the Saviour." Otto, etc.

Dionysos Sykeatês "Dionysos of the Fig Tree." Variant of Dionysos Sykitês. Otto

Dionysos Sykitês "Dionysos of the Fig Tree." Otto

Sq Bullet Dionysos Taurokerôs "Bull-horned Dionysos." Euripidês; Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos; etc.

Dionysos Taurophagos "Dionysos the Bull-Devourer." Sophoklês

Dionysos Tauropôn "Dionysos the Bull-faced." Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Sq Bullet Dionysos Teletarchês "Dionysos the Lord of Initiation." Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos

Dionysos Thaumasios "Dionysos the Wondrous, the Miraculous." Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Sq Bullet Dionysos Thaumatourgos "Dionysos the Wonderworker." Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Dionysos Theourgikos "The Theurgic Dionysos." Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Dionysos Thiasogenetês "Dionysos the Father of the Thiasos." Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Sq Bullet Dionysos Thriambos "Dionysos the God of the Triumphal Thriambos Hymn." passim

Dionysos Thyônidas "Dionysos Son of Thyone." Otto

Dionysos Thyrsomanês "Dionysos the Thyrsos-Raving." .

Sq Bullet Dionysos Thyrsophoros "Dionysos the Thyrsos-Bearer."

Dionysos Thyrsotinaktês "Dionysos the Thyrsos-Shaker." Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos

Dionysos Trietêrikos "Dionysos the Trieteric (Biennial) One." Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos

Sq Bullet Dionysos Trietês "Dionysos the Trieteric (Biennial) One." A variant form of Dionysos Trietêrikos. Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Dionysos Trigonos "Dionysos the Thriceborn." Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Sq Bullet Dionysos Xenos "Dionysos the Stranger" or "D. the Strange/ Foreign/ Exotic/ Other." .

Dionysos Zagraios "Zagræan Dionysos." See Zagreus. .

Dionysos Zatheos "Dionysos the Very Holy." The Supernal Aspect, the High Form, of Dionysos. Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Sq Bullet Diphyês "He of the Two Natures." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Dionysos as the God Who embodies the Parmenidean Complements (viz., His rôle as the complement to Apollôn at Delphi, the Bright Mask and the Dark Mask at Naxos, etc.). Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Sq Bullet Dithyrambos "The God of the Dionysiac Dithyramb Hymn." Note: Dithyrambos, like Thriambos, is almost certainly a word adopted by the Greeks from the pre-Greek indigenes. Alterantively, an etymology has been proposed based on the Greek word thyra ("gate"), a loanword (like Kadmos, Europa, Kabeiroi, and the names of the letters of the alphabet) from their Semitic-speaking Phœnician neighbors, which would read Dithyrambos as "He of the Two Gates," alluding to the God's multiple births and rebirths. passim

Sq Bullet Dotês "The Giver / Bestower." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Meliophis Thiasos

Eiraphiôtês "The In-Sewn One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Refers to Dionysos' gestation in the thigh of Zeus after the immolation of Semelê. Homeric Hymn to Diônysos i; et passim

Sq Bullet Ekstatikos "The Ecstatic One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Ekstatophoros "The Bringer of Ecstasy." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Sq Bullet Eleuthereus "The Emancipator." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Variant of Eleutherios. Pausanias

Eleutherios "The Emancipator." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos, as for Zeus. See also Lyaios and Lysios. Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Sq Bullet Eribromios "The Loud Roarer." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. An intensive Form of Bromios. Homeric Hymn vii To Diônysos; et passim

Ernesipeplos "The Shoot-robed One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Sq Bullet Eschatos "The Furthest/ the Most/ the Extreme." A Neodionysiac allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Euanthês "The Fair Blossoming One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Otto

Sq Bullet Euhastêr "The Reveler (lit., He Who Shouts Euha)."An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Eubouleus "The Good Counselor."
1. An allonym and epithet for Dionysos.
2. A Chthonic God or Hero. Brother of Triptolemos, and therefore son of either Keleos and Metaneira or Dysaules and Baubo. said in one myth to have been herding swine at the site of the abduction of Perspehonê, when some of his pigs were drawn into the Underworld chasm opened by Aidoneus/ Haidês. For this reason, it is said, pigs were sacrificed in honour of Eubouleus in a subterranean chamber as part of the Thesmophoria; one may suspect that deeper myths regarding Eubouleus were known to the Initiates, as he was worshipped at Athens as part of a Chthonic Trinity with Dionysos and Tritopatreus. Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos, et passim

Sq Bullet Euergetês "The Benefactor, the Doer of Good." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos.

Euhios "The Reveler (lit., He of the Shout Euhoi or Evohe)."An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Sq Bullet Gethosynos "The Joyful / Rejoicing One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Meliophis Thiasos

Gapotos "He Who Is Drunken Up by the Earth." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos, referring to the Wine, His Blood, poured upon the Earth in the form of Libations. Meliophis Thiasos

Sq Bullet Gigantophonos "Giant-Slayer." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Meliophis Thiasos

Hagnos "The Pure, Holy One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Sq Bullet Hebetikos "The Youthful." An allonym and epithet for one Form of Dionysos. Meliophis Thiasos

Hêgatheos "The High God." An allonym and epithet for one Form of Dionysos. Meliophis Thiasos

Sq Bullet Iakchos "The Crier, Caller." Probably an early variant of Bakchos, particularly associated with Eleusis, in the Form of a youth whose name is called forth by the host of Initiates and Candidates during the Sacred Procession. passim

Sq Bullet Iatros "The Healer." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos; more commonly of Apollôn and Asklêpios. Otto

Kissobryos "The Ivy-Wrapped One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Sq Bullet Kissokomês "The Ivy-Crowned One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Otto

Kissos "Ivy." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Otto

Korymbophoros "The Cluster-laden." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. The root word korymbos here is obviously another very ancient pre-Greek word like thriambos and dithyrambos. Nonnos, Dionysiaka xliv

Sq Bullet Krêsios "The Cretan." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Otto

Kryphios "The Secret One, the Hidden One."An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Lamptêr "Light-bringer; Torchbearer; Lampbearer." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos.

Sq Bullet Lênaios "He of the Wine-press." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos

Liknitês "He of the Winnowing Fan Cradle." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos; et passim

Sq Bullet Limnagenês "The Marshborn One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos at Athens. Otto

Limnaios "He of the Marsh." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos at Athens. passim

Lyaios "Bringer of Freedom; Liberator." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Otto, etc.

Sq Bullet Lyseus "Liberator." An allonym for Dionysos. Variant form of Lysios. Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos

Lysios "Liberator; Bringer of Freedom." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. At Sikyôn and Korinthos in the northern Peloponnesos, Dionysos Lysios was the Light Aspect of the God in a complementary Dyad with Dionysos Bakcheios as the Dark Aspect. See also Eleutherios and Lyaios and Meilichios. passim

Sq Bullet Mainomenos "The Frenzied One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Homeros, Iliad 6.132

Makar "Blessed One."An allonym and epithet for Dionysos; a common allonym for any God. Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos, et passim

Sq Bullet Manikos "The Manic One, the Mad One, the Frenzied One."An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos

Mantis "The Diviner, the Seer, the Prophet, the Oracle." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos, as well as Apollô. Otto

Sq Bullet Meilichios "The Gentle One." An allonym and epithet of Dionysos. Note that this is not a mere euphemism; on Naxos in the Kyklades, Dionysos Meilichios was the Light Aspect of the God in a complementary Dyad with Dionysos Bakcheus as the Dark Aspect. See also Lysios. Athênaios

Sq Bullet Mêkônikos "He of the Poppies." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Melanaigis "He of the Black Goatskin." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Ploutarchos; the Suda; etc.

Sq Bullet Meskalitos “Mescalito, He of the Agave Plant (of Pulque, Mezcal, and Tequila) and of Peyote and Mescaline.” An American Neobacchic epithet identifying Dionysos with the Hispano-Nahuatl figure of ‘Mescalito’ brought to the attention of Anglophone readers by Carlos Castaneda. Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Sq Bullet Morychos "The Dark One." An allonym and epithet of Dionysos at Syracuse. Polemon

Nebrôdês "The Fawn-form One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Anthologia Palatina

Nyktelios "He of the Night." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Ploutarchos

Sq Bullet Nykterinos "The Nocturnal One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Ploutarchos

Nyktiphaês "The Night-Illuminating One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Nonnos, Dionysiaka

Sq Bullet Nyktipolos "The Night-Wanderer." Otto

Nysios "He of Nysa, the Sacred Mountain."An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos

Oikêtôr "The Indweller." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos when He is temporarily incarnate in the Docheus ("Vessel") of His Bakchos Priest or Bakchê Priestess. Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Sq Bullet Ômadios "He of the Raw Feast." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos; etc.

Ômêstês "Eater of the Raw." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Otto, etc.

Sq Bullet Oreiarchês "Lord of the Mountain." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Palaios "The Ancient One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Sq Bullet Paradoxos "The Unexpected One, the Paradoxical One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Paralogos "The Inexplicable One, the Unaccountable, He Who Is Beyond Reason." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Sq Bullet Pelagios "He of the Sea." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos at Pagasai. Otto

Perikionios "He Who is Entwined Around the Pillar(s)." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Otto; Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Sq Bullet Phanês "The Illuminator, the Manifestor, the Revealer." The Orphic High God identified with both Dionysos and Apollôn. Orphika passim

Philogaios "Lover of the Earth." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Sq Bullet Philogelôs "Lover of Laughter." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Philogêthês "Lover of Joy." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Sq Bullet Philoinos "Wine-Lover." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Philomêtôr "Lover of the Mother." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Sq Bullet Philomousos "Lover of the Muses." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Ploutodotês "The Bestower of Riches." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Otto

Sq Bullet Polyboulos "The Much-Counseling, the Exceedingly Wise." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Also see Eubouleus. Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Polyeidês "He of the Many Images." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Otto

Sq Bullet Polygêthês "Bringer of Many Joys." An allonym and epithet of Dionysos. Orphic Hymn to Lysios Lênaios, etc.

Polymorphos "He of the Many Forms." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Otto

Sq Bullet Polyônomos "The Many-Named One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos

Polyparthenos "He of the Many Maidens." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos

Sq Bullet Prôtogonos "The Firstborn." An Orphic allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos

Skêptouchos "Sceptre-Bearer." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos

Sq Bullet Sôtêr "Saviour." Epithet and allonym of many Gods (Dionysos, Apollôn, Isis, Zeus, Persephonê, Christos, etc.). passim

Sykeatês "He of the Fig Tree." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Variant of Sykitês (q.v.). Otto

Sq Bullet Sykitês "He of the Fig Tree." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Otto

Taurokerôs The "Bull-horned One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Euripidês, Bakchai; Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos; et passim

Sq Bullet Taurokerôs Theos The "Bull-horned God." A form of Dionysos. Euripidês, Bakchai

Taurophagos "Devourer of the Bull." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos on Rhodes. Sophoklês

Sq Bullet Tauropôn "The Bull-faced One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Teletarchês "Lord of Initiation." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Also used for a category of Powers in the Chaldæan Oracles. Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos

Sq Bullet Thaumasios "The Wondrous One, The Miraculous One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Thaumatourgos "Wonderworker." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Sq Bullet Thiasogenetês "The Father of the Thiasos." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Thriambos "The God of the Triumphal Dionysiac Thriambos Hymn." Note: Dithyrambos, like Thriambos, is almost certainly a word adopted by the Greeks from the pre-Greek indigenes. Alterantively, an etymology has been proposed based on the Greek word thyra ("gate"), a loanword (like Kadmos, Europa, Kabeiroi, and the names of the letters of the alphabet) from their Semitic-speaking Phœnician neighbors, which would read Dithyrambos as "He of the Two Gates," alluding to the God's multiple births and rebirths. Greek Thriambos was mutated into Roman Triumphus, which produced English triumph and trump. Burkert, Harrison, Otto, etc.

Sq Bullet Thyônidas "Son of Thyônê." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Otto

Thyrsomanês "He Who Raves with the Thyrsos." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. .

Thyrsophoros "The Thyrsos-Bearer." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos, as for His priests, priestesses, and votaries. passim

Sq Bullet Thyrsotinaktês "The Thyrsos-Shaker." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos

Trietêrikos "The Trieteric (Biennial) One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. See also Trietês. Orphic Hymn to Trietêrikos

Sq Bullet Trietês "The Trieteric, Biennial One." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. See also Trietêrikos. Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Trigonos "The Thriceborn." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Orphic Hymn to Dionysos

Sq Bullet Xenos "The Stranger" or "The Strange/ Foreign/ Exotic/ Other." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Euripidês

Zagreus "Zagreus," son of Zeus and Persephonê, was slain by the Titanes and resurrected as Dionysos. Zagreus has been tentatively translated as "Great Hunter" (za + agreus) by some lexicographers on the model of zatheos ("very holy, very divine"). Though certainly possible, the title seems unlikely when one considers the rôle of Zagreus in His central myth. I suggest we follow the other principal meaning of the agr- root and read Zagreus as the "Great Wild God" or, if we take the suffix -eus as indicating agency, "Great Instigator of Wildness," as alternative and more appropriate translations. It is also a very distinct possibility that it is the Græcized form of a truly Thracian or Phrygian name as yet untranslated. passim

Sq Bullet Zatheos "The Very Holy." The epithet Zatheos/Zathea indicates the Supernal Aspect, the High Form, of a Deity (e.g., Apollôn Zatheos, Ariadnê Zathea, etc.) Lysiodôros, Dionysiakon

Zoophoros ."Life Bringer." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Meliophis Thiasos

Sq Bullet Zoros ."The Undiluted Wine." An allonym and epithet for Dionysos. Meliophis Thiasos

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