Carl Kerenyi, Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life, Translated from German by Ralph Manheim, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1976 This book is a rich, academic study of ancient mythical and practical formulae for ambrosia, the drink of the gods, the fiery effervescence of fermenting honey. Carl Kerenyi describes the preparation of ambrosia (hydromel, mead) [...]
Carl Kerenyi, Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life, Translated from German by Ralph Manheim, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1976
This book is a rich, academic study of ancient mythical and practical formulae for ambrosia, the drink of the gods, the fiery effervescence of fermenting honey. Carl Kerenyi describes the preparation of ambrosia (hydromel, mead) and other variations (the only reference we’ve found so far to melikratos, a drink made of milk and honey which came before hydromel) as an intensification of nourishment. A euphoric substance at the core of the Dionysos myth.
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