King ego and the double-sex dancer

The god representative of the energy of life in ancient Greece was Dionysos. As such, he was bisexual, for life in its wholeness contains all the individual forms it generates. The emphasis upon androgyny and sexual fusion in his cult results from man's effort to realize the wholeness of that life of which he is merely a fragment. The achievement of that fullness, life's experience of itself, is ecstasy; suffering, on the other hand, is fundamentally life's alienation from itself. In the myths and rituals of Dionysos we witness the dialectic of affirmation and denial of the life force.