Orpheus - musician and creator of medicine, traveled to the underworld but failed, torn apart  by dionysos, Sir Orfeo

Zagreus - The first dionysos, was torn apart besides the heart, boiled, eaten, and then reassembled. the ashes of him and the titans became humankind.

Dionysos - god of wine and mead

Aristaeus - resurrector of bees, made immortal by gaia with nectar and ambrosia, taught by dionysos or taught him (and was mebbe his daddy), saved a city from a curse by summoning rain, chased Orpheus’ wife around

Kvasir - Made into mead upon death which grants wisdom, brokered peace

Silphium - Long-gone and ephemeral, associated with Cyrene and with food and with horny and medicine. last one was given to nero, origin of the heart symbol, gift from apollo

Poppies - associated with drugs, death, peace, sleep, and resurrection and Thanatos

Mexican marigold - Used to wash corpses, planted in cemeteries, medicine and food, attracts dead from cemeteries

cyrene is known for its necropolis, 631 bc until 300s ad, founded after a drought. named after Cyrene the deer-hunter, mother of Aristaeus, lover of apollo

Anfortas of Cyrene

silenus - teacher of dionysus with power of prophecy while drunk engraved onto sarcophagi, antinatalist, associated with marsyas, freedom and augury

white stags as a symbol for the eternal quest for spiritual perfection

grapevine/poison ivy as opposite counterparts, ivy persists through winter and prevents intoxication, grapevine symbolizes christ and his blood

thyrsus, spear of bacchus, conceals a needle-point in ivy-leaves, drips with honey and incites madness

kantharos - chalice of dionysus

Liber - associated with augury, wine, and freedom, the first triumph, offered the first wine, libations for the dead, priestesses sold honey-cakes and offered sacrifices on buyers’ behalf

Triumphs feature memento mori and wreaths, the one in triumph is buried by people wearing ancestral masks

Day of the dead - altars are built for each dead to encourage them to visit, decorated with marigolds said to attract the dead from the cemeteries, altars also on graves, offerings of alcohol said to be divie blood and food. skulls are kept and dressed in flowercrowns and offered libations. faces are painted