Dionysus & Ariadne Victory Parade Mosaic: the Marriage & Wedding of Possibilism & Eternalism

Michael Hoffman Noon Feb. 14, 2026, Valentine’s Day

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Contents:

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Possibilism ❤️ Eternalism

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Nike or Ariadne? (They Can’t Even Get Right Who Holds the Branch)

The ultimate, paradigmatic victory is:

Understanding and harmonizing branching vs. non-branching.

Wisdom, Transcendent Knowledge, is the integrated Possibilism/ Eternalism mental model.

I was steered by Michael Archangel and by Dionysus for decades, under a strong, guiding idea, that’s not in the source, reaching Wisdom successfully.

I’m keeping the victory trophy. 🐉🚪💎🏆

Thank you Michael & Dionysus, since 1986.

A Mixed-up Path to the Best, Ideal Conclusion and Mindset

I reached the best conclusion, through a partly confused path.

The motifs are the thing (ignored wings: Ariadne is a mortal then an immortal).

Shut off your academic text mind, and open your eyes and truly look at the art: shapes.

Bring expertise in branching vs. non-branching motifs, not expertise in mind-closing textual constraints that blind.

My reconciling and harmonizing of branching vs. non-branching, guided under an incorrect and superior reading of the mosaic, was life-changing, and theory-fixing.

Approaches I’m Against

I’m against:

  • text around art
  • Ronald Huggins & Thomas Hatsis claims that the text drives the art.
  • over-education about texts and stories
  • backstories behind art
  • Cog Neurobaloney
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Epistemology, Ontology, Metaphysics

Approaches I Advocate

I advocate:

  • Phenomenology.
  • Medieval artists DGAF about the text around the art, or the stories; the art totally dominates over those.
  • The Artists Mainstream Psilocybin Initiation Guild brings their own internal dominant concern.
  • Medieval artists do not “illustrate the text” bowing down in subservience; artists have their own “talking points”. Artists use this particular job as an opportunity to deliver their own, extant message.
  • A pure psychedelic cognitive Phenomenology approach.
  • A pure cognitive phenomenology approach.
  • Psychedelics in Western religious history, as the source, origin, Reference point, and ongoing inspiration.
  • Psychedelics in Asian religious history, as the source, origin, Reference point, and ongoing inspiration. Per the Asian Studies expert AM, who quickly surpassed Mike Crowley’s book.

https://www.theoi.com/Gallery/Z12.3.html

“Dionysus (Roman Bacchus) and the winged goddess Nike (Roman Victoria) ride a chariot drawn by four tigers.

“The god is crowned with a fruiting grapevine and holds a pine branch in his hand.”

No, the female figure holds a branch, not the male figure.
My uncertainty about Ariadne vs. Nike is excusable, this is not.

No mention of spear (non-branching).

“To his left stands a Satyr cloaked in a leopard-skin cape, bearing a wine-amphora on his shoulder.

“A Maenad strides before the god beating a tambourine.”

“Below, a leopard sips from a cup of wine and a Satyriscus (child Satyr) rides a lion.”

Leopard drinks from Amanita in Holy Grail upturned formation, as my 2010 specimen photos proved in 2020. Not literally “a cup of wine”.

Web Search: dionysus ariadne

https://www.google.com/search?q=dionysus+ariadne

AI Summary

“Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and revelry, married Ariadne, the abandoned Cretan princess, after finding her weeping on Naxos, where Theseus had left her.

“Smitten by her, Dionysus married her, bringing her to Olympus and making her immortal with a crown created by Hephaestus, which became the Corona Borealis constellation. 

[the soul rises to sphere of the fixed stars/ heimarmene; the spirit goes outside of that, per David Ulansey + Wouter Hanegraaff -mh]

Key Aspects of the Myth:

  • Meeting on Naxos: After helping Theseus defeat the Minotaur, Ariadne was abandoned by him on the island of Naxos. Dionysus found her, comforted her, and they fell in love.
  • The Marriage: They were married, and the wedding gift, a crown from Aphrodite or Hephaestus, was placed in the stars as the constellation Corona.
  • Children: They had several children together, often cited as including Oenopion, Thoas, Staphylus, and others.
  • Immortality: Dionysus (or Zeus at his request) made Ariadne immortal, and she lived with him on Mount Olympus.
  • Relationship Dynamic: They are often seen as a powerful, devoted couple, with Ariadne representing the intuitive “powerhouse” to Dionysus’s “rebel god” persona. 

Ariadne is sometimes referred to as the “Mistress of the Labyrinth,” while Dionysus is the “Great Loosener,” often portraying a dynamic of transformation and devotion in mythology.”

Article Links: Ariadne

From the search above.

https://www.greeklegendsandmyths.com/ariadne.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariadne

Dionysus the God of Loose Cognitive Science

loose cognitive association binding [LCAB]

The god of loose cognition; Loose Cognitive Science.

Maenad with unbound hair loosened mind control transformation.

Change of Emphasis for this Image in 2023 (Branch Held in Left Hand) vs. 2025 (Wed Ariadne, Not Abandon Her)

King Theseus abandons wife Ariadne.

Dionysus is better: he WEDS Ariadne.

When the mind adds eternalism-thinking, the mind does not destroy possibilism-thinking; modify possibilism-thinking.

“Embrace and include” possibilism-thinking, upon adding eternalism-thinking, per Ken Wilber.

Emails with Wrmspirit

I developed the huge “wed possibilism-thinking” solution in emails with Wrmspirit in April 2025.

todo: did I copy the emails to this site? likely.

The 10 Mushrooms in the Mosaic

Complete image, except bottom cut off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiasus — todo: study/copy page.
“Triumph of Dionysus on a fragmentary Roman mosaic (3rd century, Sousse Archaeological Museum)“
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Triumph_of_Bacchus_-_Sousse.jpg, fullscreen
  • 4x – mushroom-shaped grape-baskets
  • 1x – Amanita leopard dog-watering bowl fountain
  • 4x – Maenad’s 4-tiger {mushroom hem}
  • 1x – {mushroom hem} Dionysus

Total mushroom count: 10.

The Victorious Chariot Contains both Dionysus and Ariadne

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Pale High-Res Image Cut Off

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Yellow Blurry Image Complete (Except Bottom Cut Off)

Complete image, except bottom cut off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiasus — todo: study/copy page.
“Triumph of Dionysus on a fragmentary Roman mosaic (3rd century, Sousse Archaeological Museum)“
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Triumph_of_Bacchus_-_Sousse.jpg, fullscreen

among mytheme-shapes, in Mythemeland.

http://www.egodeath.com/images/egodeatharticle/HighRes/DionysusVictoryChariot_HiRes.jpg

There is 1 mushroom above each tiger’s head/neck (in the Maenad’s garment), and 1 mushroom above the left tiger’s tail (in Dionysus’ cloak).
5 instances in 1 art work is evidence of deliberate repetition — mushrooms hidden & revealed in garment folds.

The upturned Amanita leopard-watering bowl is mushroom #6, not to mention the mushroom-shaped grape-baskets above and to the right (see the below copy of the image).

Thiasus – Wikipedia-Triumph of Dionysus on a fragmentary Roman mosaic (3rd century, Sousse Archaeological Museum)-SCEPTER

My Photographic Proof of Leopard Amanita Fountain

Identifying the Leopard-watering Bowl as Amanita

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Photo by Michael Hoffman, 10:10 a.m. 10/10/2010, fullscreen
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Photo by Michael Hoffman (ego death),
10:10 a.m. 10/10/2010, fullscreen
amanitaholygrailheinrich.jpg (703×517)
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From article Nov. 2020 wrote for Brown:
https://egodeaththeory.org/defining-compelling-evidence-criteria-of-proof-for-mushrooms-in-christian-art/#Identifying-the-Leopard-watering-Bowl-as-Amanita

The best photos ever taken of Amanita, for multiple reasons, including this proof utility.

Contributions by the Egodeath Community

Image provided to Michael Hoffman by the Egodeath community in 2005 for my 2007 main article.

Thiasus – Wikipedia-Triumph of Dionysus on a fragmentary Roman mosaic (3rd century, Sousse Archaeological Museum)

Figure 1. Triumph of Dionysus on a Roman mosaic (3rd century, Sousse Archaeological Museum).

Todo

todo: copy any other crops to here

THIS IS EXACTLY WHY I NEED DEDICATED GALLERY PAGE:

I CAN’T READILY FIND MY METADATA-ANNOTATED OFFICIAL UPLOADS OF ALL MY CROPS OF THIS IMAGE.

The present, new page fixes that problem of image database management of the Brown database of mushroom imagery in Christian art at this site. = “gallery”, “categlor

  • database
  • gallery
  • catalog

brown db includes analyusis BUT CERTAINLY EMPHATICALLY NOT JUST ISOLATED “MUSHROOM” IMAGERY:

{mushroom}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs

The Brown Database of Mushroom Imagery in Christian Art = EgodeathTheory.WordPress.com

mushroom imagery in Western, Greco/Roman, Jewish/Christian mythic religious art

mushroom imagery in Western art
miwa

mushroom imagery in Greco/ Roman/ Jewish/ Christian art
migrjca

Medieval Artists Simultaneously Depict the Final, Mature, Wisdom Mental Model (Post- Psilocybin Transformation), as Y’I (Accurate) & YI (Simple)

Crop and annotations by Michael Hoffman, Valentine’s Day 2026, fullscreen

Y’I = IY’

Physics Firmly Asserts Non-Branching Eternalism as Its Foundation, and Offers No Support for Branching Possibilism

Mushroom expert RL assisted me a couple weeks ago in web research to answer this pair of questions:

  • Is block-universe eternalism accepted in Physics?
    Answer: YES, to the extreme. 4D block spacetime is SO well accepted, there isn’t even any justifiction; it’s treated as extremely foundational.
  • Is branching Everett manyworlds accepted in Physics?
    Answer: NO, it’s merely an idea, with no evidence.

Michael Hoffman since 1988: VINDICATED by that research, that extreme lopsided finding.

Physics firmly asserts Eternalism, and offers no support for Possibilism.

Petkov intro of book says Minkowski had real comprehension of mind-blowing Eternalism, but Ein only had hazy understanding.

See what I wrote in 1997/2001 re: branching vs. non-branching in Physics (not yet in myth & mythic art):
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-1/ – find “branch”

It took me from 1998 to around 2010 to start connecting that with branching vs. non-branching in myth & mythic art.

Great new keyboard shortcuts to list the key contrasts, describe the phrase:
list of contrasts of possibilism vs possibilism vs. eternalism
l c p e [LCPE]:

List of Contrasts of Possibilism vs. Eternalism

Possibilism vs. Eternalism =

  • {branching} vs. {non-branching}
  • {tree} vs. {snake}
  • {fingers} vs. {thumb} or {index finger}
  • Y vs. I
  • many worlds vs. single block-universe

[LCPE]

List of Contrasts of Possibilism vs. Eternalism (Verbose)

Ordinary-state Possibilism vs. altered-state Eternalism =

  • Possibilism vs. Eternalism (technical)
  • {branching} vs. {non-branching} (everyday analogy)
  • {tree} vs. {snake} (analogy)
  • {fingers} vs. {thumb} or {index finger} (analogy)
  • Y vs. I (notation)
  • many worlds vs. single block-universe (technical analogy)

[LCPEL]

3 types of lexicon language:

  • technical language: possibilism vs. eternalism; many worlds vs. single block universe
  • everyday language: branching vs. non-branching
  • analogy: {tree} vs. {snake} {fingers} vs. {thumb} {fingers} vs. {thumb} or {index finger}

Overlaps:

  • many worlds vs. single block universe — technical language, and analogy
  • branching vs. non-branching — everyday language, and analogy

Rebis:

Rebis Holding a Y by Using Fingers & (Opposable/ Opposite) Thumb Together

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The base of the Y is the non-branching region of that “tree”.

The top part of the Y is a V (branching); compare two mushrooms in Day 4 pointing to the V- or A-shaped compass God holds while also holds {balance scale} filled with Panaeolus & Amanita:

Proof that in Day 1 (Creation of Light), the {balance scale} Pans Contain Panaeolus & Amanita Mushrooms

Crop and Annotations by Michael Hoffman, Jan. 13, 2025
Day 1: Compass and {balance scale}
Day 4: Liberty Cap, Cubensis, Panaeolus, Amanita

Crop and Annotations by Michael Hoffman, Jan. 13, 2025
Day 1: Compass and {balance scale}
Day 4: Liberty Cap, Cubensis, Panaeolus, Amanita

Four mushrooms- which Ronald Huggins WRONGLY calls “trees” as he rushes past this panel to deflect and divert attention magician-like.

Huggins the bad phony stage-magician diverts your attention by saying “Around the trees are smaller plants”.

Do I need to screenshot Huggins’ INSANITY propaganda?

Trees?!

HOW CAN RONALD HUGGINS CALL THESE 4 SIMPLE MUSHROOMS, “TREES”?

THEY HAVE NO BRANCHES, AND THAT IS REALLY THE ENTIRETY OF Huggins’ argument of objection to saying that:

The Hundreds of Mushroom-Trees in Christian Art, That We Deniers Assert Look Like Mushrooms, Are Not Mushrooms

The hundreds of mushroom-trees are not mushrooms.

The art academics themselves dubbed this class of trees “pilzbaum / mushroom-trees”, because the art academics said these mushroom-trees look like mushrooms.

THEY SAID SO THEMSELVES, and now that crowd of anything-but-drugs academics is trying to walk back THEIR OWN ASSERTION THAT THESE TREES LOOK LIKE MUSHROOMS.

Foraging for Psychedelic Mushrooms in the Wrong Forest: The Great Canterbury Psalter as a Medieval Test Case (Ronald Huggins, 2024), https://egodeaththeory.org/2024/11/23/huggins-foraging-psychedelic-mushrooms-wrong-forest/ & https://www.academia.edu/118659519/Foraging_for_Psychedelic_Mushrooms_in_the_Wrong_Forest_The_Great_Canterbury_Psalter_as_a_Medieval_Test_Case

Huggins’ “Still Foraging Wrong” Article Published 3.5 Months Ago

2026/02/14
-2025/10/29
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2025/14/14
-2025/10/29
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2025/13/44
-2025/10/29
= 3 mo 15 days =

published 3.5 months ago

Citation-Type Keyboard Shortcut for “Still Foraging Wrong” (Huggins) [RH25]

On John M. Allegro’s Suggestion That the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the 12th Century Plaincourault Chapel Depicts an Amanita muscaria Mushroom
Ronald Huggins, Oct. 29, 2025
Religions journal, Issue: 11, Volume: 16, 30 pages
https://www.academia.edu/144814668/On_John_M_Allegros_Suggestion_That_the_Tree_of_the_Knowledge_of_Good_and_Evil_in_the_12th_Century_Plaincourault_Chapel_Depicts_an_Amanita_muscaria_Mushroom
https://egodeaththeory.org/2026/02/11/on-john-m-allegros-suggestion-that-the-tree-of-the-knowledge-of-good-and-evil-in-the-12th-century-plaincourault-chapel-depicts-an-amanita-muscaria-mushroom-huggins-2025/

What a great invention: the citation-type keyboard shortcut.

In April 2025, the Dionysus and Rebis Images Corrected and Revised the 1997 Egodeath Core Theory’s “Repudiate” View of Branching Possibility Thinking

You repudiate the original mental model in a way: you revise and retain it.

April 2025, fundamental correction of my 1988/1997 core model, or of my undestanding of the final state in relation to the two systems where you “move from A to B” as if to eliminate A, which is not the case.

That correction was driven by two images:

  • “Rebis holding a Y” image which RL helped me re-find after repeated failure.
  • Dionysus and Ariadne victory wedding procession mosaic.

Those two artists instructed me how to solve this difficult problem I worked on for months trying to rightly articulate attitude and revision of the orig mental model.

The Pythagorean Y

Crop by Michael Hoffman
  • Left = possibilism-thinking = process more with altered-state fire
  • Right = eternalism-thinking = victory

Beware of “get rid of possibilism-thinking”.

Simple vs. accurate models.

  • Simplified, 1st-order model:
    Switch from Possibilism to Eternalism.
  • Accurate, 2nd-order model:
    Switch from Possibilism, to modified Possibilism along with Eternalism.

The mind retains possibilism-thinking in a modified form, upon adding eternalism-thinking.

The broad, inclusive sense of the word “eternalism-thinking”:

Eternalism-thinking includes modified/ qualified/ transformed/ transfigured/ revised possibilism-thinking.

Whether to put Braces Notation Around {branching} & {non-branching}

The terms branching vs. non-branching are BOTH direct lang (referent domain) AND analogy-domain.

It’s arbitrary whether to put braces around “branching” and “non-branching”, as do for analogies in myth & mythic art.

On the spectrum from direct lang to analogy, branching vs. non-branching sits in the middle.

Motivation for this Page

I am CONSTANTLY needing this mosaic because EXTREMELY profound lesson, not foolish notion 1995-2025 of “get rid of possibilism-thinking and change to eternalism-thinking”.

I had to find the most clear & effective way of framing / defining “eternalism-thinking” – vex Q:

  • eternalism-thinking = not possibilism-thinking; purely basic eternalism-thinking.
    vs.
  • eternalism-thinking = includes transformed possibilism-thinking.

The Problem for Artists, Same as for Me

Non-Branching Thinking​ Includes Branching Thinking,​ and Is the Exclusive Opposite (Complement) of Branching Thinking​

It’s largely a termy-defn problem, for effective lexicon definition.

My 1988, 1997, 2024 connection implication tones where gave the impression – proof: Erik Davis page on the Egodeath theory in Zep IV book climax.

how the hell can i instantly make page photos appear here? went to site map, find davis, found it
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/04/30/techgnosis-myth-magic-and-mysticism-in-the-age-of-information-davis-1998/ —

Audiobook of Zep 4 (Eric Davis) Is Released Today [Apr. 29, 2025]

Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin IV
Erik Davis, Feb. 18, 2005
https://www.amazon.com/Led-Zeppelins-Zeppelin-IV-33/dp/0826416586/

I wrote at other page
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/04/30/techgnosis-myth-magic-and-mysticism-in-the-age-of-information-davis-1998/ —

Tomorrow, April 29, 2025, audiobook is released, of book Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin IV (33 1/3) (Erik Davis, 2005)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0826416586 —

p. 118, Zep 4 (Davis) on Astral Ascent Mysticism

Photo & annotations by Michael Hoffman

Davis’ treatment, Not Reaching Resolution; Failing to Reach Late Antiquity’s “Transcend Heimarmene” Level of Comprehension.

When Davis read Egodeath.com in 2004, I had only started to theorize in terms of 2- vs 3-level model.

It took me until Apr.-Aug. 2025, to really grasp the mind’s actual, final, mature relation between harmonizing in some way, possibilism alongside eternalism as two complementary opposites.

Intense mystic altered state visionary inspiration around that time: voice recording:

I tried to advice ppl how to think, but my speech is polluted:

How can I tell you “you should think about it this way”, when how you think about it is frozen in rock for eternity?

That’s when I realized, WE ALWAYS DO AND ALWAYS WILL employ possibilism-thinking.

It’s nonsense and unreal to think that possibilism-thinking goes away when add eternalism-thinking.

(Which similar Acid Metal album Diary of a Madman lyrics about changing thinking?)

p. 122, Zep 4 (Davis), About the Egodeath Theory as Pure, Exclusive Eternalism, as if Get Rid of Possibilism

Photo & annotations by Michael Hoffman

The Dominant Christian Interpretation Is by Psilocybin-Initiated, Transformed Artists Spotlighted in the Greatest, Most-Mainstream Cathedrals and Illuminated Manuscripts

Davis does NOT reflect my latest nascent idea of 2004, from Coraxo 2000 Gnosticism Yahoo Group:

In some sense, transcend block-universe determinism (eternalism; heimarmene, fatedness).

The mind learns eternalism-thinking and then in a sense transcends eternalism-thinking, in that the mind retains possibilism-thinking (modified) alongside eternalism-thinking.

Happily for my struggle to articulate this around April 2025, the medieval artists are working hard to communicate the same, specific, sophisticated, mature point:

The mind’s mature end-state after psilocybin transformation (eternalism-driven control-transformation), can be described in multiple ways:

  • I-shaped.
    End up with eternalism-thinking “instead of” possibilism-thinking.
    If define eternalism to include modded possibilism.
  • I-shaped & Y-shaped.
    End up with both possibilism-thinking & eternalism-thinking.
    A simplified explanation that we end up with (for the most part) the original world model, with the eternalism model added to it.
  • I-shaped & Y’-shaped.
    End up with modified possibilism-thinking, + eternalism-thinking.
    That’s accurate: the new I model + the modded Y model.

Depending how you think about it and define terms:

Shall we say I-thinking (non-branching thinking), INCLUDES branching thinking​?!

See Also

https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/02/16/branching-message-mushroom-trees-psychedelic-eternalism-depicted-in-medieval-art-as-branching-mushrooms-handedness-and-non-branching/

To make this list of recent pages, I copypasted from bottom of an article, then quickly elim’d some links.

I kept the below links from that list, for various reasons.

Today’s new articles:

Recent pages that are relevant to either of those two articles:

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Michael Hoffman, B.S.E.E., explaining possibilism (lower fingers), altered-state eternalism (lower thumb); & integrated possibilism/ eternalism (upper fingers & thumb)

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