nobody knows this. they are a simple fugeki. they assist visitors with offerings and ceremonies. they keep the grounds cleaned. they perform the dances and rites
a god so beloved by death he traveled the Underworld's waters and returned without ever needing to pay a toll. so beloved it left a part of Itself on his soul
Charon fundamentally affixed a fragment of their soul, a fragment of the Styx into Dionysus before the sundering. it's why death is loathe to take him in every life and incarnation