Dionysos and Vine

Son of a beautiful mortal princess, Semeli, and the father of Gods Zeus, who rules Heaven and Earth, Dionysos was the last immortal god to take his place on Olympus. A place where on ly Gods, with both parents Gods, had the right to reside.
Handsome and carefree dark-eyed Vachos or Dionysos, started his long wandering at the gold rich lands of Lydia and Frygia, got to know Persia's sunburnt fields and the large walls of Baktria, reached the land of the Medeans which was ravaged storms, to end up at the blessed Arabia. He returned to the land where he was born, to teach his immortal art and to be recognized as the most popular God among the mortals, who adored and served him with love and passion.
Having arrived from the far East, where the Hindu river soaked the fertile land, and from the Biblical Edem, where vine cultivation first appeared, he transformed to an original Greek God, who cam to being from the divine warmth of Zeus and was raised by the Hyades nymphs. The sumbolism of the vine, which needs heat in order to give fruit and rain in order to sustain itself, found, in the philisophical imagination of ancient Greeks, his most expressive mythological expression.
The new God, who started performing mirables the moment he was born, to scandalize, to inspire, and to dominate in his worship men and women, laymen and kings, quickle abandoned Olympus, after teaching the immortals the beneficial effects of wine drinking. Even since, it is told, the sacrifized animals were rinsed with undiluted wine, after performing libation, in order to please, without exception, the Olympian Gods!
During his wanderings he planted vines and taught people the cultivation of vine and the production of wine. He organized feasts, both solemn and wild, ceremonies to forget and heal and events of joy and rejoicing. He disrupted households, roused women, made men bolder and punished with frantic fury those who despised him! He was a human God, from his mother's side, with all the immortal power inherited from the paternal- Zeus's - sperm. He is along with Demetra, the only God who descended and lived on earth and lived beside man through pain and joy.
By planting vines anywhere he passed, he brought back optimism and resurrected hope with songs and laughter.
Such a vine, brought from Crete, which was snatched by Ariadne during her eloping with Theseas, after the killing of Minotaur, was replanted by the Athenean Hero on Attica land, covering whatever space was left over by the sacret tree, the olive tree, on the Thriassio Pedio, becoming the beloved plant of the Atheneans, who honored the God and the mysteries of his worship.
And when, in later generations, the hunted from fate Kephalos, some of God Hermes and Ersi (daughter of the foudner of Athens Kekropa), was chased out of Athens by divine degree, came to settle at the Athenean land, settlement of his homeland, in the middle of the sea, ravaged by the Televoes pirates, he nailed on the land the moment he arrived the vine hw was carrying to remind him of his homeland. Athenea land, was simplified in time to Thenea land and later to Thenia, finally the island took his name and was called Kephalonia.
That single vine, htat Dionysos himself blessed out of obbligation to his brother Hermes, flourished and spread and made green all the land of the Kepahlos island. And climbing the slopes the blessed sprouts, the closer the came to the life-bearing father Zeus, the bigger the strength they got, bearing fruit more joicy and big, with more scarlet color, with more fire, and subtelr aroma. White, red, yellow, noir. Muscat, Mavrodapne, Theniatiko, Vostolidi, and above all the divine vine, the Rombola, which requires a little piece ot dry land, lots of dew, and even more love to bear fruit.
.....(From the bookd of Aggelos-Dionysos Dembonos, entitled Wine: the Historic Cycle of wines of Cephalonia, which was written under the persistence and the beneficial influence of Yannis Kalligas, who had the inspiration for such an original writing and who madethe Rombola Cephalonia Wine know and recognized both in Greece and Internationally.)