Zagreus (English spelling)

Japanese: ザグレウス（英語表記）Zagreus

A god in the ancient Greek mystery religion Orphism. He was the son of Zeus and his daughter Persephone, who had been transformed into a snake. He was beloved by his father and promised to be his successor. He was entrusted to Apollo and Curetes and raised secretly in the mountains of Parnassus. When Zeus' wife Hera found out, she incited the Titans to massacre the infant god. The Titans tore him apart, cooked his flesh, and ate it. When Zeus found out, he burned him to death with lightning and created humans from his ashes. According to Orphic doctrine, humans came to have a divine soul, which was nothing other than a fragment of Zagreus, in a prison of their evil bodies derived from the Titans. Meanwhile, Zagreus' heart, which had not yet been eaten by the Titans and continued to beat, was given to Zeus by Athena, who then drank it or gave it to Semele, who then had intercourse with his lover and gave birth to Dionysus, who was actually Zagreus reincarnated.

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Japanese:

古代ギリシアの密儀宗教オルフェウス教の神。ゼウスが娘のペルセフォネと，ヘビに化身し交わってもうけた子で，父に鍾愛され，その後継者の地位を約束され，アポロンとクレテスたちに預けられて，パルナソスの山中でひそかに育てられていたが，このことを知ったゼウスの妃ヘラは，ティタンたちをそそのかしてこの幼児の神を虐殺させた。ティタンたちは，彼を八つ裂きにし，その肉を料理して食べたところで，このことを知ったゼウスによって雷で焼殺され，その灰から人間がつくられたので，人間は，オルフェウス教の教義によれば，ティタンに由来するあしき肉体の牢獄の中にザグレウスの破片にほかならない神的霊魂をもつことになった。一方ザグレウスの心臓は，まだティタンに食われず鼓動し続けていたのを，アテナがゼウスに渡し，ゼウスはこれを飲み，またはセメレに飲ませたうえでこの愛人と交わり，ディオニュソスをもうけたので，ディオニュソスは，実はザグレウスの生れ変りにほかならないという。

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