Bacchus and Philemon, my version…|

 Dionysus

Bacchus is not the person i’m referring to, but for the sake of my posting, it’s who we are rolling with on this day. Dionysus is the son of Zeus and the mortal princess Semele. Hera, jealous of Semele, tricked her into asking Zeus to reveal his true form. The sight of Zeus's divine form incinerated Semele, but Zeus saved the unborn Dionysus by sewing him into his thigh. Dionysus was later born from Zeus, signifying his divine nature and unique birth.

Dionysus's primary roles are as the god of wine and festivity. He oversees the cultivation of grapevines and the production of wine, which are central to Greek culture and religious rituals. Dionysus is also associated with festivals, theater, and ecstatic celebrations, embodying the joy and chaos of life.

https://www.kidzone.ws/mythology/greek/about-dionysus.htm

but all wine jokes and marriages, the one to poor stranded Ariadne. i am drawing on the myth of 2 trees, an oak and a linden treez.

i planted a Linden tree next to an oak tree that has been in “our” yard this year. i felt compelled to do this.

i loved the story, i’m sure there are many versions that have obviously inspired people to create and respect old, important behaviors.

read up…

Baucis and Philemon (Greek: Φιλήμων και Βαυκίς, romanized: Philēmōn kai Baukis) are two characters from Greek mythology, only known to us from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Baucis and Philemon were an old married couple in the region of Tyana, which Ovid places in Phrygia, and the only ones in their town to welcome disguised gods Zeus and Hermes(in Roman mythology, Jupiter and Mercuryrespectively), thus embodying the pious exercise of hospitality, the ritualized guest-friendship termed xenia, or theoxenia when a god was involved.

it’s roots run deep in Northern Hemisphere mythology 😛.

Tale as old as time
True as it can be
Barely even friends
Then somebody bends
Unexpectedly