So the religiosity is lost: let us give Dionysos the worship which is due to him and he takes possession of his faithful, Menades and Bacchantes, to plunge them into a frantic trance; but let us come to abandon him as in Thebes, the city of Semélé his mother, and the worst risk then. to come.. With the Bacchantes we are precisely in excess. Dionysos is a god apart. He questions the human order and reveals the other aspect of the sacred, strange, elusive and confusing.