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"Where there's a whip there's a will": Orcs driving a Hobbit across the plains of Rohan. Scraperboard illustration by Alexander Korotich, 1995 . The author J. R. R. Tolkien uses many proverbs in The Lord of the Rings to create a feeling that the world of Middle-earth is both familiar and solid, and to give a sense of the different cultures of the Hobbits, Men, Elves, and Dwarves who populate it.
Anybody could drink of this paltry and sullied portion, which was known as the "rhymester's share" ("skáldfífla hlutr"); but the greater portion of the mead of poetry (which had issued from his mouth) Odin gave to the gods and to those truly gifted in poetry.
The story proper begins with the sixth stanza, with the Man in the Moon "drinking deep" and the cat wailing. Now is the moment for the dish and the spoon to dance "on the table", as the cow and the little dog start rushing about. Stanza seven sees the Man in the Moon drink another mug of ale, and fall asleep "beneath his chair".
French philosopher René Descartes may not have declared "I drink, therefore I am" (the beery-eyed version of his famous philosophical quote "I think, therefore I am"), but an ancient philosopher ...
Methe, Greek personification of drinking and drunkenness. Nephthys, Egyptian goddess of beer. Ninkasi, Sumerian goddess of beer. Nokhubulwane, Zulu goddess of the rainbow, agriculture, rain, and beer. Oenotropae, Greek goddesses, "the women who change (anything into) wine". Ogoun, Yoruba/West African/Voodoo god of rum. Ometochtli, Aztec gods of ...
The Day of the Lord, which is often understood by Christians to usher in the Messianic Age, is depicted as a time when "[n]ew wine will drip from the mountains and flow from all the hills," [140] when God's people will "plant vineyards and drink their wine," [141] and when God himself "will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a ...
An adulterer, at the time he is committing illegal sexual intercourse is not a believer; and a person, at the time of drinking an alcoholic drink is not a believer; and a thief, at the time of stealing, is not a believer. —
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