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Zeus, passionately in love with his own sister, satisfied his passion by taking the form of a bull; then, under the guise of a repentant and supposedly castrated man, he inserted ram's balls into his sister's womb: Demeter gave birth to a daughter, Persephone, for whom Zeus was inflamed with passion and, in the form of a snake, united with his own daughter; the fruit of this union was the boy Zagreus with the head of a bull [
As Diodorus Siculus writes, Sabazius was the first to make an ox plow the land, in other words, to sow barley
According to the legend set forth by Orpheus, he was torn to pieces by the Titans. In the Orphic hymns, this story is supplemented by another, about how the Titans, incited by Hera, attacked the child, cut him into pieces and devoured him. Athena saved only the heart, still trembling, and brought it to Zeus, who either swallowed the heart himself or gave it to Semele, from whom Dionysus was born - another, young Zagreus. The Titans were struck by Zeus's thunderbolts, and from their ashes came men, thus uniting in themselves the divine and human, the good and the vicious. Hence the expression in prayers to Sabazius: the bull gave birth to a snake and the snake gave birth to a bull. According to Theophrastus, he was invoked when they saw the non-poisonous snake parei
Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great, was an ardent participant in the orgies in honor of Sabazius; hence the legend arose that Zeus himself in the form of a snake had intercourse with Olympias and that the fruit of this relationship was Alexander; there was even a story that King Philip lost an eye for peeping through the keyhole as the deity in the form of a serpent lay with his wife
