For two gods, Dione is the key.

Eleusis is in danger.

What happens at the mystical height of the ceremony is the best kept secret in the world, yet someone has told the Roman Emperor that the body of god consumed in the Eucharist is a mind-altering mushroom, and the Divine Marriage is sexual theater - performed for three thousand people a year! Enraged, he sends an army to pull the sanctuary to the ground and destroy ever soul in it.

The Son of God is using Dione

by placing her at the heart of his overthrow - but she doesn’t know it. Dione is a divinely gifted visionary and mystic who begs to be allowed to train at a temple but her family insists that she marry. The god intervenes, and Dione is delivered to Eleusis — as a slave. Nevertheless, she rises to become Mother Superior of the House of Demeter, home of the Melissae, the powerful women who have remained quietly in charge of Eleusis for ten thousand years.

The Mother God fights back

by creating a new myth, embodied by a Daughter of God who upholds the sacred, life-giving power of women. But this counter-narrative must be a death and rebirth story, which would demand the arrest, public torture, and execution of Dione’s beloved daughter. But can she? Have her years of training really prepared her to make that sacrifice?