One group is concerned with purification and achievement of divine status and mentions Persephone. Now that you havd died and now that you have come into being o thrice happy one, on this same day, Tell Persephone that Bakkhios himself has set you free. Ram, you fell into milk. You have wine as your fortunate honor. And below the earth, there are ready for you the same prizes as for the other blessed ones.
Tablets ere intended for burial with dead initiates.
Individuals who had undergone initiation and had been released by the Bacchic one, Dionysus. Tablets taken within context of tradition of Bacchic mysteries in classical period, show that by the fifth century BCE rituals associated with Dionysus were concerned with themes of life and death. Dionysus was a god whose myths about a double birth, death and rebirth, and a journey to the underworld made him a figure attractive to those who wished to find a way to escape the anxieties of death. The dead of the inscriptions reach only the same symbolic level reached by the dead of the sarcophagi. They can dance forever at a great Bacchic party, especially if they die young enough to have the required energy, but there is no promise of a real improvement in status.