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The goddess's grove was the site of the Dionysian scandal that led to.

Compare Damia and "Demeter" mother earth.

308—312; , Fabulae 179; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 8.

A History of Pagan Europe.

Zeus tried to spare her by showing her the smallest of his bolts and the sparsest thunderstorm clouds he could find.

Nonnus does not present the conception as virginal; rather, the editor's notes say that Zeus swallowed Zagreus' heart, and visited the mortal woman Semele, whom he seduced and made pregnant.

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Though Zeus begged her not to ask this, she persisted and he was forced by his oath to comply.

43 ff — translation in• Dionysus: Archetypal Image of the Indestructible Life, Bollingen, Princeton• Mortals, however, cannot look upon the gods without incinerating, and she perished, consumed in a lightning-ignited flame.