Some possible connections (apologies if a bit of a jumble)
[Sources in "quotes" from Wikipedia:]
Grape harvest, wine making and wine = fermentation, transforming sweet fruit into matured intoxication - altered state of conscious, from innocence to accountability?
Ritual madness = managed/controlled outlet for Chaos. Discordia (Discordianism?)
Theatre = media and global stage of events.
Religious ecstasy = taken leave of senses through 'euphoria'. Illusion of time is suspended.
Unrestrained consumption = NATO/Western/American culture: STS Extreme.
Fertility = procreation rites and of Dionysian satyrs. Seeding of new life through uncontrolled lust. New 'Ordo ab Chao'.
"The cult of Dionysus is also a "cult of the souls" - given the times we're in, very much a battle of/for souls.
"...his maenads feed the dead through blood-offerings" = vampire-satanism necromancy and war.
"...and he acts as a divine communicant between the living and the dead. He is sometimes categorised as a
dying-and-rising god."
As with Saturnalia 17th December to 23rd December 'Sol Invictus' and dying/rising Sun/Christ. Symbolic on many levels. I find the Dionysian rituals have similarities with Saturnalia and Kronia (Saturn/Cronos = grandfather of Dionysus)
"In its fully developed form, his central cult imagery shows his triumphant, disorderly arrival or return, as if from some place beyond the borders of the known and civilized" - Our chaotic world in general, possible relation to 3D/4D border realm crossing?
"The earliest cult images of Dionysus show a mature male, bearded and robed" = Traditional patriarchy of the Abrahamics
And...
"Later images show him as a beardless, sensuous, naked or half-naked androgynous youth: the literature describes him as womanly or "man-womanish" = feminizing of modern man and gender-fluid symbolism.
Also, Maenads ferocity could represent extreme feminism and 'death of men'.
"As Eleutherios ("the liberator"), his wine, music and ecstatic dance free his followers from self-conscious fear and care, and subvert the oppressive restraints of the powerful" - Prophetic to the times... Old stoic powers losing tyrannical grip + arising force of new creativity and unregulated emotion takes stead: Primeval waters of Chaos stirring: of 'rebirth'.
"Those who partake of his mysteries are possessed and empowered by the god himself" = Reference to demonic possession/symbiosis and of 4D power over 3D.
Maybe a bit tenuous, but in light of upcoming "genetic surprises", following on from ie 'Cheddar Man' (dark Briton), and 'Homo Sapiens' origins Horn of Africa (Ethiopia) ties in with 'Out Of Africa' confusion/asumptions. The British Isles is seen as the primary settled-lands of modern Celts (with Brittany in NW France) of which derive from Nordic Kantekkians - and currently undergoing Celtic-culture revival.
"According to a legend, when
Alexander the Great reached a city called Nysa near the
Indus river, the locals said that their city was founded by Dionysus in the distant past and their city was dedicated to the god Dionysus.
[26] These travels took something of the form of military conquests; according to
Diodorus Siculus he conquered the whole world except for Britain and Ethiopia.
[27]
Britain = British Empire 'Sun never sets' and responsible for current Anglo-phonic dominance, and English as 'global' language of commerce;
Ethiopia = African nation never colonized (a 5 year Italian occupation not-with-standing) and the land of forgotten secrets of Judeo-Christianity origins and hidden legacy Solomon/Queen of Sheba, (and equated with resting place of Ark of the Covenant). Possibly linked to hidden bloodlines and upcoming "genetic surprises".
Ethiopia (Axum) represents ancient 'black' Abrahamic nexus at the beginning of Age of Pisces (following on from Age of Aries); Britain represents most recent/modern 'white' Abrahamic exodus ending the Age of Pisces (Age of Aquarius to follow).
[continues from Diodorus Siculus] "Returning in triumph (he was considered
the founder of the
triumphal procession) he undertook to introduce his worship into Greece, but was opposed by some princes who dreaded its introduction on account of the disorders and madness it brought with it (e.g.
Pentheus or
Lycurgus)."
With the words 'triumph' and 'Trump' (win in cards) - both synonymous with 'victory': Trump's name originally German 'Trumpf' is phonetically much closer to 'triumph', was Anglicized when grandfather Frederick entered US. Trumps family-line were originally winegrowers from Kalstadt. And according to Wikipedia, Frederick Trump "made his fortune by facilitating
prostitution within
his brothels, restaurants and
boarding houses" in Seattle and Yukon. It could be said Trump blood-line 'triumphed' success from wine and debauchery is Dionysian.
Syria Air-strikes:
Moon Phases Calendar for April 2018 - Calendar-12.com
US Air-strikes 14th April 2018: final Waning Crescent before New Moon (15th/16th April 2018) and start of Jewish months and 'Noumenia' of ancient Greek calendar:
"The Noumenia was considered, in the words of Plutarch, "the holiest of days" and no other religious festivals were allowed on this day,
nor were any governmental meetings scheduled to take place on the
Noumenia"
interesting timing... And here
US Air-strikes 14th April 2018: midway-point between Good Friday (2018) 'death of Christ' (at Golgotha aka the 'Skull'), and Beltane 'Mayday' start of summer; also 14th/15th April midway-point between standard solar-months of Spring (transitions 1st March - 31st May.)
Dates like bridges/gateways/crossroads.