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Resurrection / rebirth In the version of the story apparently told by Callimachus and Euphorion, the cauldron containing the boiled pieces of Dionysus, is given to Apollo for burial, who placed it beside his tripod at Delphi.[53] And according to Philodemus, citing Euphorion, the pieces of Dionysus were "reassembled by Rhea, and brought back to life",[54] while according to Diodorus Siculus, the reassembly and resurrection of Dionysus was accomplished by Demeter.[55] Later Orphic sources have Apollo receive Dionysus' remains from Zeus, rather than the Titans, and it was Apollo who reassembled Dionysus, rather than Rhea or Demeter.[56]

In the accounts of Clement, and Firmicus Maternus cited above, as well as Proclus,[57] and a scholium on Lycophron 355,[58] Athena manages to save the heart of Dionysus, from which, according to Clement and the scholium, Athena received the name Pallas from the still beating (πάλλειν) heart. In Proclus' account Athena takes the heart to Zeus, and Dionysus is born again from Semele. According to Hyginus, Jupiter (the Roman equivalent of Zeus) "ground up his heart, put it in a potion, and gave it to Semele to drink", and she became pregnant with Dionysus.[59]

It is believed in Orphism that the ash that came from Zeus’ burning of the Titans is what humanity was born out of, which is why it was believed that humanity is partly divine and partly wicked as we were born from the Titans who ate the divine child, Dionysus Zagreus. It was believed that our physical bodies originate from the ashes of the Titans, while our soul comes from the divine spark of Dionysus Zagreus. They also believed that it is only when we get the divine blessing from Dionysus Zagreus that we are able to rest in the afterlife, and until we get that blessing, our wicked bodies would only remain in a cycle of rebirth in this realm. Not only did Orphism seek after the divine spark of Dionysus Zagreus within each of us, it also sought to rescue that spark from a never-ending cycle of rebirth, brought upon by the Original Sin of the Titans, the killing of baby Zagreus. This is why Orphism is perceived as an almost “Christian-like” religion, it is based on the premise of an Original Sin that we strive for deliverance from through living a life of purity to avoid contamination of the soul and the death and resurrection of the god that suffers for it, in Christianity that god being Jesus, and in Orphism that god being Zagreus who was reincarnated into Dionysus.