Orpheus avatar of God

According to a Late Antique summary of Aeschylus's lost play Bassarids, Orpheus at the end of his life disdained the worship of all gods save the sun, whom he called Apollo. One early morning he ascended Mount Pangaion (where Dionysus had an oracle) to salute his god at dawn, but was torn to death by Thracian Maenads for not honoring his previous patron, Dionysus. It is significant that his death is analogous with the death of Dionysus, to whom therefore he functioned as a priest and avatar. According Aeschylas Orpheus begins to worsgip in only one God personafied or represented by the sun or what others might call Appollo Ascending mount Panagon mimicing dionysus, Orpheus to solute God at dawn, He was turned to pieces by Thracian Maenads for forsaking the gods including his patron Dionysus. This represents how orpheus new ideas concerning divinity conflicted with other peoples older ideas of tehy gods, orpheus did not forsake teh gods but spoke of teh diaphana or unity God of all the Godz. He pretended to die because the older realogic peoples attacked him for his new formalation of the God who is the plurality of Godz shared as a single soul and shared oness of Godhead and good Hood. He was an avatar of God or the god he refered to , equal to dionysus and the opther gods as teh sun shines equally through all of them. Orpoheus was not smug so his formulatrion explained how as a priest and avatar of God he was also a god. Ovid (Metamorphoses XI) also recounts that the Thracian Maenads, Dionysus' followers, spurned by Orpheus, first threw sticks and stones at him as he played, but his music was so beautiful even the rocks and branches refused to hit him. Enraged, the Maenads tore him to pieces during the frenzy of their Bacchic orgies. Ovid recounts how orpheus divine song protected him from teh stones and sticks thrown at Orpheus. The divine song is part of teh lesson of divinity that the thracean maenadss did not like, so he was torn to pieces based on an orgy where the followers of teh old view of dionysus, the confused by time version of dionysus, attacked him through an old ritual,. one that caused his new views to look less important, Orpheus triumphs based on teh divine music and not rituals meant to entice people even afainst their better will and thought. It is not the orgy that was teh realogi but the idaes that made orpehus dionysus equal as a avatar of God. till next week.