The Truth About Mythological Figures Similar To Jesus

Ingestion of a god to represent a ritual union? Purification through drinking his blood, represented as wine? These are the key similarities between Dionysus, the last of the gods to be admitted to Olympus, and Jesus particularly through the Catholic eucharist.

Ingestion of a god to represent a ritual union? Purification through drinking his blood, represented as wine? These are the key similarities between Dionysus, the last of the gods to be admitted to Olympus, and Jesus — particularly through the Catholic eucharist. 

Greek myths weren't bound into a single, inviolable tome, and some elements of Dionysus' story differ over time. Notably, his birth, which ultimately involves a Herod-like Hera seeking to slay the unborn Dionysus because he was the offspring of one of Zeus' affairs. In the end, Zeus protects Dionysus by sewing him into his thigh, from which he was later born; hence Dionysus was called "dimetor" (of two mothers), as Greek Gods and Goddesses says. And similar to Osiris, he was torn apart by Titans, as Britannica explains. But his heart survived, Athena resurrected him — like Isis did Osiris — and Zeus annihilated the Titans in retaliation, which created humanity.

Known as Bacchus to the Romans, after which drunken party-orgies "bacchanalia" get their name, Dionysus was a beneficent, world-wandering god. He traveled the countryside, a representation of the "lifeblood of nature," preaching of liberation. In this case, not through repenting sins, but through the consciousness alteration of intoxication, sex, theater, the arts, and anything that elevated emotional or physical ecstasy. Followers of Dionysus shared his "blood" — wine — with others to pass his essence around, per Classroom.

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