While at sea, the crew tried to tie him up, but the bonds fell away of their own accord. Suddenly, wine began to flow all over the ship; vines began to grow from the sails and ivy began to twine around the mast. Then Dionysus turned into a lion and a bear appeared on the deck. The lion seized the captain and began to tear him apart, and the sailors jumped into the sea, turning into dolphins.
Dionysus, now back in human form, prevented the helmsman from following his comrades into the sea and told him that his aid would be rewarded and no harm would come to him. Hera still hated Dionysus and she drove him mad, causing him to run away and wander around the world until he came to Phrygia in what is now central Turkey. Here he met Cybele, a Phrygian mother goddess whose worship had been accepted by the Greeks. Cybele cured him of his madness and Dionysus established his cult and rites of worship.
Dionysus is also usually accompanied by satyrs. They are often shown with huge erections. Dionysus then set his sights on establishing his worship in his homeland, so he traveled back to Greece.
There is an informal rule that, if you have one divine parent and one human parent, then you are a human usually a hero and not a god. But there were two exceptions to this rule. Heracles Hercules , who became a god and was taken up to Mt. Olympus upon his death, and Dionysus. But no one believed him because his mother was a mortal. So, when Dionysus traveled back to Greece to establish his rites, he had trouble convincing people that he really was a god.
There are several Resistance Myths connected with Dionysus. Resistance Myths are stories about men or women who try to resist the worship of a particular god or goddess.
There are a number of Resistance Myths attached to Dionysus, more than for any other god or goddess. The most famous Resistance Myth connected with Dionysus occurred in his city of origin, Thebes, with his cousin Pentheus.
After Semele died, her sisters, most notably Agave, spread the rumor that Semele had lied about the paternity of her child and Zeus had punished her for it with his thunderbolt. As a result, no one in Thebes believed that Dionysus was divine. He was a very young man, perhaps only about twenty or twenty-one when he became King of Thebes. Dionysus came to Thebes to introduce his worship to his homeland, but Pentheus forbade any of the Theban women to worship him. A third reason may have been that Pentheus felt that this was a good opportunity to establish his authority.
At any rate, Pentheus did not allow the women of Thebes to worship Dionysus. Dionysus, however, caused all the women of Thebes to go mad and run away from home. They all left their fathers and husbands and ran away to Mount Cithaeron, where they became maenads, singing, dancing, drinking wine, and worshipping Dionysus. Pentheus was upset at this behavior and tried to imprison Dionysus, who had disguised himself as a priest of Dionysus.
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