Dionysus, Bacchus or Bakchos.. originally the Greek god of wine and son of Zeus. He found Ariadne sleeping on Naxos and married her putting her crown into the constellations as Corona. His followers were called 'Maenads' or 'the raving ones' and were mainly women, often thought of as wild and insane they indulged in copious amounts of violence, bloodletting, sexual activity, self-intoxication, and mutilation. The Romans reintroduced him as Bacchus the god of Wine and Ecstacy very much as a cult.