He was very handsome as a young man, eager for challenges. Rhea cured him, and taught him her religious rites, and he wandered through Asia teaching about cultivating the vine. He was struck with madness by Hera at this point, and ended up wandering various parts of the world. When he grew up, he discovered the vine, and extracted the juice. They raised him through infancy and childhood, and in reward for their care, Zeus placed them as the Hyades in the stars. The second story is that the boy was taken to the rain nymphs of Nysa. Hermes had them raise Dionysus as a girl to hide him from Hera's scorn. In one version, Hermes took Dionysus to King Athamas and his wife Ino, who was Dionysus' Aunt.
In his early life Zeus sent Dionysus off with Hermes.There are two versions of the story. He was born a demigod, like Hercules and Perseus.
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Zeus managed to save the infant, sewing him into his thigh until he was born a few months later as a full grown baby on Mount Pramnos in Ikaria. Unable to go back on the promise, he did so, and she was burned to ashes. Zeus tried to get around the promise, but in the end swore on the River Styx, and Semele asked to see his true form. While in disguise Hera convinced Semele to ask Zeus to reveal his true form and, to make sure that he would do it, to swear on the River Styx, which is sacred to the Greek Gods and an unbreakable oath.
She disguised herself as a nurse (or old crone in some stories) and made Semele begin to doubt that it was truly Zeus. As with most of Zeus' acts of infidelity, Hera became jealous when she found out that Semele was pregnant with Zeus' child. This makes him the only Olympian to have a mortal parent, and according to some traditions the only one to have been born a demigod. The most common is that his mother was a mortal woman named Semele, who was a daughter of the King of Thebes, and his father was Zeus. Dionysus was often called the 'twice born' because of the two myths around his birth.
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