Talk:Satyros/@comment-28739144-20161113205516/@comment-29602226-20161216012142

Actually, Dionysus was more a god of the cycles of life and nature: birth, death, agriculture...etc. and of the misteries of life and death. Grapevine was his symbol because during winter it looks a completely dead stick, but during summer is full of life and gives sweet grapes from which wine, the symbol of life, is made. Also, his most devout followers supposedly entered altered states of mind, using drugs and/or self-suggestion and such, so wine, the most common drug was connected to him that way too...