False: deliberately made or meant to deceive.

I decided to analyze page 145 of Calasso's work, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony. Not knowing what I was getting myself into, I dove right into the page, quickly startled by the relationship between Apollo and Dionysus. See, Apollo and Dionysus are half-brothers, as Apollo is the product of Zeus and Leto, and Dionysus is the product of Zeus and Semele. However, Calasso describes their relationship as false, because behind their clashes and overlapping, they have a divine connection through their obsession with possession. Possession is defined as the condition of having or owning something. The page says that Zeus was well-versed in possession and that "he need only listen to the rustling oaks of Dodona to generate it". I looked up Dodona, and it is the oldest hellenic oracle- priests and priestesses would go to the grove and listen to the leaves of the oak tree and interpret the correct actions to be taken. So Zeus would listen to the leaves of a tree and be inspired on who/what to possess? That seems a little strange. 

Dionysus was regarded possession as an "immediate, unassailable reality". Dionysus was the god of intoxication, and had followers that performed rituals of intoxication with drinking and drugs and dancing and incantations, often finding themselves possessed by Dionysus' power and attraction. However, to Dionysus, possession was about more than dancing and drinking and intoxication- possession is about beings acknowledging and bending to his power. When someone refused to acknowledge his possession, that's when he would lose his temped and unleash the possession like a monster. "...the Proetides, the weaver sisters who were reluctant to follow the call of the god, dash off and race furiosly..." These women, the Proetides, were said to have been sentenced to lives of going mad because they refused to accept the call and demands of Dionysus. That was Dionysus' punishment to those that refused to accept his possession- he punished them to an eternity of going mad and killing and racing furiously about the earth, lacking possession by or of anything. 

Apollo regarded possession as a conquest. And Apollo defended his possession with an unwavering hand, giving up his possessions to no one and no thing. "But the possession that attracted Apollo was very different than the possession that had always been the territory of Dionysus. Apollo wants his possession to be articulated by meter; he wants to stamp the seal of form on the flow of enthusiasm, at the very moment it occurs. Apollo is responsible for imposing logic too; a restraining meter in the flux of thought." Apollo demonstrates logic perfectly when faced with Hermes and his intelligence; Apollo made a line to divide what Hermes could possess and what he himself could possess. While giving Hermes Thriai. (Thriai were three nymph goddesses inclined in the art of divination by pebbles and birds of omens), Apollo kept the invincible oracle of the word for himself.