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Ba-Maguje, Hausa spirit of drunkenness. Bes, Egyptian god, protector of the home, and patron of beer brewers. Biersal/Bierasal/Bieresal, Germanic kobold of the beer cellar. Ceraon, who watched over the mixing of wine with water. Brigid of Kildare, patron saint of brewing. Dionysus, Greek god of wine, usually identified with the Roman Bacchus.
Both Bacchus, as by extension the god of all alcoholic drinks, and Ceres, as the goddess covering the raw materials, were symbolic of beer, and a metaphor used by van Mander placed Venus and Cupid as representing the transformative process of actual brewing, by boiling the ingredients; the fire appearing in many images was a further necessity ...
The Hebrew Bible was largely written in Biblical Hebrew, with portions in Biblical Aramaic, and has an important Ancient Greek translation called the Septuagint.The modern Hebrew Bible, which generally follows the Masoretic Text, uses several words to represent alcoholic beverages:
The ritual itself is a libation: beer is poured onto the skin and wood of the drum, and these materials "come to life" and speak with the voice of the shaman in the name of the tree and the deer. Among the Tubalar , moreover, the shaman imitates the voice of the animal , and its behaviour as well.
Jesus making wine from water in The Marriage at Cana, a 14th-century fresco from the Visoki Dečani monastery. Christian views on alcohol are varied. Throughout the first 1,800 years of Church history, Christians generally consumed alcoholic beverages as a common part of everyday life and used "the fruit of the vine" [1] in their central rite—the Eucharist or Lord's Supper.
In Ancient Egyptian religion, beer and wine were drunk and offered to the gods in rituals and festivals. Beer and wine were also stored with the mummified dead in Egyptian burials. [89] Other ancient religious practices like Chinese ancestor worship, Sumerian and Babylonian religion used alcohol as offerings to gods and to the deceased.
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Ninkasi was the goddess of beer, and as such was associated with its production, consumption and effects - both positive and negative. [8] Jeremy Black described her as "one of (...) minor deities without a strongly defined personality who merely symbolise the object or phenomenon that they are associated with."