Gods of Love and Ecstasy: The Traditions of Shiva and Dionysus

Shiva and Dionysus are the Hindu and Greek gods of magical power, intoxication, ecstatic sexuality, and transcendence who initiate us into communion with the creative forces of life. Revealing the earliest sources of the traditions of Shiva and Dionysus, Alain Danielou reconstructs the fabric of our ancient relationship with creation, vividly relating practices that were observed from the Indus Valley to the coasts of Portugal at least six thousand years ago.

Author: Alain Daniélou
Publisher: Inner Traditions International
Published: 05/01/1992
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.18h x 5.38w x 0.72d
ISBN13: 9780892813742
ISBN10: 0892813741
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Hinduism | General
- Social Science | Folklore & Mythology
- Body, Mind & Spirit | Sacred Sexuality

About the Author
One of the most distinguished living Orientalists, Alain Danielou was an intimate of Stravinsky, Jean Cocteau, and Nabokov, and spent more than 20 years in India studying music and philosophy with eminent pandits of the Hindu tradition. Danielou is the author of Myths and Gods of India; While the Gods Play; Yoga: Mastering the Secrets of Matter and the Universe; Virtue, Success, Pleasure, and Liberation; The Phallus; The Complete Kama Sutra and Music and the Power of Sound. He is the founder and former director of the International Institute for Comparative Musicology in Berlin, is a Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, and Officier du Merite National.