With it, the world is brought into sexual and artistic, emotional and physical activity. Dionysus is the engine that powers life. He is the creative force in nature, i.e. nature as the universal artist. Human life itself is a work of art produced by the forces of nature. The impulse in nature which is responsible for the spontaneous production of life is the same impulse that gives rise to the urge felt by humans to create something new.
Human activity depends upon and, in that sense, reflects or mimics the workings of nature.
Notes 1 Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner , trans.