(urth) Mythic Women in BotNS

[Lee Berman]

>Antonio Pedro Marques: Funny, remember who else carries a stuff with a head in it?

Do you mean Silk and his vine? Good call!
 
BTW, aside from grapes and vines and wine, Dionysus was known for carrying a staff.
 
It was called a "thyrsus". Made of fennel, usually wrapped in vines and topped with
a pine cone. Isn't there a cryptic reference to fennel somewhere in Short Sun?
 
If there is a connection between Inire, The Outsider, Typhon and Pas somehow I think
Dionysus as demiurge is the mythic/religious link.
 
I'm wondering if the ruler-vizier relationship is also important. (As with God-Lucifer?)
 
 
(Here's a Dionysus image showing the thyrsus. http://www.teenwitch.com/divine/greek/pict/f_dionysos.jpg
Nicely androgynous and showing the grapes and 
the snakes which symbolize him also.)