Nectar and Ambrosia: An Encyclopedia of Food in World MythologyA publishing first, Nectar and Ambrosia presents an encyclopedic treatment of the magic properties and uses of food by mortals and immortals alike, from the pages of myth and legend. |
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... bread and wine into flesh and blood , was called the doc- trine of transubstantiation . For centuries people consumed breads in human likeness to represent godly flesh and they drank red wine to represent godly blood . Today these ...
... bread and wine into flesh and blood , was called the doc- trine of transubstantiation . For centuries people consumed breads in human likeness to represent godly flesh and they drank red wine to represent godly blood . Today these ...
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An Encyclopedia of Food in World Mythology Tamra Andrews. BREAD Bread was perhaps the most important food to all cultures that baked . Because bread making involved grain , which died and was resurrected with the seasons , bread came to ...
An Encyclopedia of Food in World Mythology Tamra Andrews. BREAD Bread was perhaps the most important food to all cultures that baked . Because bread making involved grain , which died and was resurrected with the seasons , bread came to ...
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... bread allows a communion with the divine . In the Christian Eucharist , bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ . The ancient Aryans of India performed simi- lar rituals with rice cakes . The Aztecs ate a representation of ...
... bread allows a communion with the divine . In the Christian Eucharist , bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ . The ancient Aryans of India performed simi- lar rituals with rice cakes . The Aztecs ate a representation of ...
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Africa Ainu amaranth ambrosia America ancient animals aphrodisiac apples Ayahuasca Aztecs banana barley beans beer believed berries betel nuts beverage blood bread breadfruit buffalo cakes ceremonies chicha Chinese citron coca cola nuts connected considered consumed corn crop cultivated cultures dead death deities Demeter demons Dionysus divine dogs drink early earth eggs Egyptians Elderberries evil feast fertility fish flesh flowers fruit garlic gave ginseng goat goddess gods gourds grain grapes Greek myth grew harvest heaven herbs Hindus honey human immortality India Japanese kava killed land legend lived lotus magic maize mandrake Maya mead meat milk millet moon mother mushrooms mythmakers Native Americans offered Osiris peach Persephone pigs pine plant pomegranate Pulque quinoa radish Ratsch rice rituals sacred sacrifice seeds sesame Simoons soma soul spices spirits sugarcane symbol thornapple Toussaint-Samat 1992 tree Tulasi turmeric underworld Vishnu wine woman worship yams