Norse
Sif
golden hair, grain (by later reading)
Bacchus / Liber
Roman tradition. See the whole pantheon.
- Domains
- wine, ecstasy
- Symbols and attributes
- Ivy; thyrsus
- Parents (per the sources used)
- Jupiter
Key myth
In 186 BCE the Senate suppressed the Bacchanalia, as Livy reports, with thousands tried; Liber, the older Italic wine god, had a separate cult.
Greek counterpart: Dionysus on thegreekgods.org. Roman and Greek versions share names and stories in many places but began as different cults.
Place in the family graph
More traditions
Elsewhere in the world
Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Bacchus / Liber: trickery, boundaries and travel, earth, harvest and fertility. This is overlap in one area only.