Pagan Grace Dionysus, Hermes, and Goddess Memory in Daily Life

The three images of divinity amplified in this book express the often unconscious pagan grace present in our daily lives. Dionysos brings joy to celebrations & protects the sexual potency of man. Ginette Paris looks again at soul-making through the body, at the Eleusinian Mysteries in light of the culture's drug & alcohol problems, explores the God's twin faces of liberator & tyrant & revisions role-playing under Dionysos's aegis. Lively as mercury, subtle as word play & as indispensable as commerce or conversation, Hermes' grace is today called communication, involving the necessity of deceit & the seductiveness of rhetoric. His connections with the healing arts provide a sorely needed balance to contemporary medical practice. Memory's grace is the remembrance of things past, the details of recollected happiness. The author disentangles the different values of oral memory, literacy, & computer memory, all along allowing Memory's daughters, the Muses, to influence her writing, her feeling & her thought.Paris, Ginette is the author of 'Pagan Grace Dionysus, Hermes, and Goddess Memory in Daily Life' with ISBN 9780882143422 and ISBN 0882143425.