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As the sages have said: everything starts somewhere. But that beginning is often older - and messier - than people generally care to remember. As the sages have also said: the very oldest stories are, sooner or later, about blood.
It’s true that Dionysos is Semele’s son. It’s true that Hera had it in for poor Semele.
But it’s also true that when the lightning crackled, and Semele gasped and then buzzed, it wasn’t Dionysos’s first time emerging into the world of life and color. Dionysos doesn’t remember it.
Dionysos's first mother wants her son's help in the fight against his father. It's...a strange and delicate matter, as truth often is.