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Animal sacrifice[edit]

Per the Bacchanalia summary section in this article (and the Bacchanalia article itself), the very unusual forms, origins and meanings -- these seem to be several -- of animal sacrifice in the cults and myths of Dionysus/Bacchus needs a much more thorough treatment. An editor has just added something on the matter, citing Russell's History of Western Philosophy. That's just a start (addit: having just read the cited source; Russell's account is over-generalised, hovering between Greek and Roman practice; and of course, he was a philosopher, not a historian. Scholarship has moved on since '45. I've removed the addition and interpretation from that section. A more up-to-date, specialist treatment is needed. Haploidavey (talk) 13:00, 1having 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Etymology: dubious link with Demeter and Dione[edit]

I've twice deleted a paragraph claiming (a) that the name of Dionysus is related to that of Demeter, and (b) that his name is a combination of the names of Dione and Zeus. This looks like original research; it gives no citations for either claim, both of which are linguistically untenable in my belief and have not been advanced by any scholars I know of. Trecht (talk) 21:43, 6 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Erroneous links[edit]

At least two links in the article redirect to articles on geographical locations instead of ancient deities.

So far, I have identified Eleutheros (subsection "Liber and importation to Rome", redirects to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahr_al-Kabir), Nysus (subsection "Second birth", redirects to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni%C5%A1#Middle_Ages). There may be more.

Delinked both, since neither appears to have an article, and both are redirects for other topics that have articles. If someone writes articles about these mythological figures, they could be placed at those titles. P Aculeius (talk) 19:55, 2 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Linear B spelling[edit]

According to this article, "di-wo-nu-so" is spelled 𐀇𐁂𐁕𐀒 in Linear B; but List of Mycenaean deities uses 𐀇𐀺𐀝𐀰 for di-wo-nu-so. Moreover, according to Linear B article, 𐁂 stands for "au", 𐁕 is not yet deciphered, and 𐀒 for "ko", so that 𐀇𐁂𐁕𐀒 is equal to "di-au-?-ko", and not "di-wo-nu-so". As far as I can tell, neither citation for 𐀇𐁂𐁕𐀒 (Beekes 2009 and Thomas Palaima) uses 𐀇𐁂𐁕𐀒, only the transliterated form "di-wo-nu-so". Deiadameian (talk) 13:00, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]