With a cheerful crowd of maenads and satyrs decorated with wreaths, the cheerful god Dionysus walks around the world, from country to country. He walks in front wearing a wreath of grapes with an ivy-decorated thyrsus in his hands. Around him, young maenads are circling in a fast dance, singing and shouting; clumsy satyrs with tails and goat legs, drunk with wine, gallop along. Following the procession, the old man Silenus, the wise teacher of Dionysus, is carried on a donkey. He was very drunk, he could barely sit on the donkey, leaning on a skin of wine lying next to him. The ivy wreath slid to one side on his bald head. He rides swaying, smiling good-naturedly. Young satyrs walk next to the carefully stepping donkey and carefully support the old man so that he does not fall. To the sounds of flutes, pipes and tambourines, a noisy procession moves merrily in the mountains, among shady forests, along green lawns. Dionysus-Bacchus walks merrily across the earth, conquering everything to his power. He teaches people to grow grapes and make wine from their heavy, ripe bunches.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru