Our Mountainside Dionysia altar contains handmade and natural offerings inside a discreet and beautiful vintage box. It's smaller size is ideal for a travel altar and its vintage wooden box features a painted wilderness scene on a black background. Deer are depicted in a forest landscape, with grasses, tall evergreens, and stars seen in the background.
This altar box is filled with handmade & natural offerings from our Dionysus altar collection, including: - 1 Dionysus altar tile in antique gold, inspired by ancient Roman intaglios of Dionysus - 1 leopard altar tile in shining gold clay, accented with black to highlight its spots, with an attachment of garnet glass reminiscent of dripping blood, for the frenzied devouring at Bacchic revelries - 1 Maenad altar tile in shining gold clay, honoring the Bacchic retinue - 1 Amanita muscaria figurine, as this mushroom is associated with Dionysus and for his tie with ecstasy and trance - 1 acorn altar tile with moss and copper leaf inside, representing the wilderness in the acorn shape and moss as well as twilight sun-rays and change in the copper leaf - 1 green snake altar tile, as the snake is one of Dionysus’s sacred animals; he was known to appear as a snake on a grape leaf in historic texts - 1 medium bottle of juniper berries, for chthonic cleansing - 2 snake ribs bound with green thread, to honor the spirit of the snake itself as one of Dionysus’s sacred animals - 1 red clay amphora, a wine-red altar tile of a Greek wine jug, representing the wine Dionysus’ presides over - 1 set of prayer beads, with 3 amethyst beads reminiscent of grapes, finished at one end with protective thistle for his association with the wilderness, and an ivy leaf and berry at the other end, with a green glass ivy leaf and blue dragon’s vein agate bead for the ivy berry - 1 piece of raw amethyst, for Dionysus’s link with royalty through purple and the calmness of knowing one’s own nature, uncut and unpolished for the wild nature Dionysus rightly refuses to shed - 1 Dionysus prayer card, with a prayer created by the Trickster's Apothecary in devotion to Dionysus printed on handmade paper with real cornflowers inside and a depiction of Dionysus on the front with grapes and leaves in his hair - 1 vintage glass grape leaf miniature offering bowl
