Prophecy
The God Who Comes
The cult forms give us the clearest evidence of the violence with which he forces his way in - a violence which affects the myth so passionately. These forms present him as the god who comes, the god of epiphany, whose appearance is far more urgent, far more compelling than that of any other god. He had disappeared, and now he will suddenly be here again.
Other gods, like Apollo, also go off into the distance and return. But only Dionysus appears in an incomprehensible manner from the circle of his followers or is swallowed up in the deep. As surprising as is his coming, so is his going away.
And now the one who had disappeared was supposed to reappear suddenly with his tipsy look and his dazed smile, or he was supposed to burst forth out of the darkness in the form of a savage bull. They were waiting for him - the choruses of women, true images of those higher beings, who followed Dionysus everywhere.
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