Archetypal vintage: Wine as an archeytypal agent of psychological and spiritual tansformation in select ancient literature

The wine archetype was born from basic human concerns emanating from the collective unconscious which attached themselves to the dying-resurrecting motif symbolized by viticulture, and sublimated in ancient literature. The authors of this inceptive literature molded wine's archetypal form into an exalted facilitator of psychological and spiritual renewal.;From its indistinct beginning in Gilgamesh, the Old Testament and Homer's Odyssey, the wine archetype solidifies as an embryonic transformative force in the Homeric hymns; the "Hymn to Demeter" inaugurates the context from which the wine archetype begins to effect spiritual transcendence.;Worship of the wine archetype facilitates the development of drama, which serves as an emotional and psychological provocateur, as illustrated by Euripides' Bacchae..;In the New Testament, Jesus Christ is an avatar for the fully fledged wine archetype: a perfect representative of self-actualization, a transformative impresario who by example proffers wholeness and eternal life to those who reshape themselves psychologically and spiritually.