Bacchus.

Bacchus, the Roman god of wine and ecstasy, corresponds to the Greek Dionysus. He grew up far from Mount Olympus and taught humans how to cultivate wine. Accompanied by maenads, satyrs, and panthers, he traveled as far as India, where he celebrated triumphal processions.

Bacchus stood for wine, intoxication, liberation from social constraints, ecstasy, religious rapture, theater, transformation, and the dark side of nature. His debauched bacchanalia were temporarily banned in ancient Rome.

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