Hat man mich verstanden?-DIONYSOS GEGEN DEN GEKREUZIGTEN. [Nietzsche,EH 'Destiny' 9]

So,to understand Nietzsche we have have to see him as Dionysos;but Dionysos AGAINST the Crucified.Now this means that the conception of Christ as a Dionysos archetype is not meant.What is meant is the historical Jesus who dies on the Cross for his crimes-HIS crimes,and nobody elses.The conception of Dionysos is that of the Affirmer of life in continual cyclic destruction and creation.Nietzsche,like Goethe,like Holderlin,is ultimately a pagan.

As Burckert writes of Dionysos;
"Everyone who surrenders to this god must risk abandoning his everyday identity and becoming mad:This is both divine and wholesome."An outward symbol and instrument of the transformation brought by the god is the mask."The merging of god and votary which occurs in this metamorphosis is without parallel in the rest of Greek religion."BOTH votary and god are called Bacchus-the god alone is Dionysos:'bakcheia' denotes the frenzy".

Here we see Nietzschean concordances of a remarkable nature;Nietzsche's own madness is signaled by a last letter to Cosima;'I love you,Ariadne-Dionysos'.Nietzsche's philosophy of multiple perspectives utilises the image of the mask;the metamorphoses of the spirit is spoken of in Zarathustra.

One cannot obviously talk about all pagan practices as if they were identical,but as far as I know the Germanic rune readings and Roman entrail readings were attempts to find out what Fate had in store for us.I would regard worship which begs for good outcomes somewhat slavish.The Aryan pagan is stoical in the face of Destiny.

I'd like to dwell on the concept of 'Justice',but will only pose this statement of Nietzsche's as a starting point for the moment;

"Every Aristocratic moral code is intolerant...even intolerance itself is counted as a virtue, going by the name of 'justice' ".[Nietzsche,BGE 262]