Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth

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Thigh-Born

It's all about gay sex. Everything is always about gay sex. Even straight sex is all about gay sex.”

(Sparky T. Rabbit)

 

It would have been obvious to any ancient Greek.

Who would have thought that you can't really understand the birth of Dionysos without knowing about gay sex?

 

You know the story.

Semele is pregnant with Zeus' child, but makes the mistake of asking to see her divine lover as he really is, in the full glory of his divinity. Note to self: bad idea.

Blam!

One lightning-strike later, Zeus implants the still-gestating fetal Dionysos into his own thigh, from which the god is, in due course, born, and hence—in the by-word of the Dionysiac mysteries—known as “Twice-born.”

 

To judge from the surviving literary and artistic evidence, the most common form of male-male sex in ancient Greece was what Classics professors refer to as “intercrural intercourse": what your average street hustler would call “thigh-f*cking.”

That explains why Dionysos is born from Zeus' thigh.

 

As to just how Zeus managed, in effect, to sire a child on himself...well, welcome to the paradoxical world of mythology.

Gods are capable of all sorts of amazing things.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Poet, scholar and storyteller Steven Posch was raised in the hardwood forests of western Pennsylvania by white-tailed deer. (That's the story, anyway.) He emigrated to Paganistan in 1979 and by sheer dint of personality has become one of Lake Country's foremost men-in-black. He is current keeper of the Minnesota Ooser.

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