CLST 2090 : Exam 2
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Three rules when mating with a god. Divinity is a recessive trait, two recessive traits are needed to make baby a god. Zeus found a nurse for the baby to be raising him. Gift of freedom from fear and anxiety--- gift of dionysus. God of the wet part of nature blood of wild animals, sap from trees. Dionysus was going to bring his gift to the town of thebes first. No one believes dionysus as a relative nor is that he a god. They reject the gift of a little madness. Midas lead one of dionysus follower back to him. Everything he touches he wants to turn to gold. Goes back to dionysus and tells him that it has turned into a curse. Tells him to take a bath in the river and the gift is washed away. Explains why there is so much gold found in that river.