[[drinks]] [[cups-grail]], [[soma-cup]] *** # The Sacred Drink - Prepared and consumed by priests using a [cup](cups-grail.md). (g-dumezil 1924A) - PIE `*médʰu` - Germanic mead - Indo Iranian sáwHmas - Indic Soma, Madhu - Iranian Haoma ## Prohibition - [Behafarid's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behafarid) followers prohibited intoxicants ## Non-IE ### Arab > "...the Muslim taboo on wine was connected less with the wish to avoid drunkenness, than with a shrewd concern to remove a traditional aid to motivation. For it was widely believed that, in his cups, the Arab gentleman could 'feel his blood speak'. Through wine, he became mindful of the deeds of his ancestors; he felt able to live up to an ancient style of life - lavish, polished and grandiloquent (not unlike that of the heroes of Homer or the *cortezia* of a medieval Provençal baron). The Muslim could not tolerate such easy spontaneity: not wine and warm memories of the past, but the chill dread of the Last Judgment, must spur on a man. [...But...] The Beduin way of life of the Arab aristocracy, though castigated by Muhammad, saved Islam." > [[brown-p1971]]p139-40 # Other [Recommended Books: Indo-European Sacred Drink by Ceisiwr Serith](https://www.youtube.com/embed/ndFhsD0p7JI) # Look Up Avesta: Yasna. http://avesta.org/yasna/index.html. A more modern translation: https://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~irania... Baile in Scáil (The Phantom’s Frenzy). https://www.ancienttexts.org/library/... Bauschatz, Paul C. The Well and the Tree. Bodleian Dinnshenchas. http://www.ucd.ie/tlh/trans/ws.fl.3.0... Crawford, Jackson (tr.). The Poetic Edda. Echtrae Cormaic (The Adventures of Cormac mac Airt in the Land of Promise). https://celt.ucc.ie//published/T30200... Enright, Michael J. Lady With a Mead Cup. Ritual, Prophecy and Lordship in the European Warband from La Tène to the Viking Age. Ford, Patrick K. The Well of Nechtan and “La Gloire Lumineuse. In Larson, Gerald James (ed.). Myth in Indo-European Antiquity. https://books.google.com/books?id=gsT... Graves, Robert. The Greek Myths. You’ll want to look up anything involving ambrosia and nekter, as well as the stories around the hiding of Zeus when he was a baby. Griffith, Ralph T. H. The Texts of the White Yajurveda or Vājasaneyā-Saṃhita. https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/wyv/... Heaney, Seamus (tr.) Beowulf Hillebrandt, Alfred. Vedic Mythology. Hollander, Lee M. (tr.). The Poetic Edda. Houben, Jan E. M. (ed. and tr.). The Pravargya Brāhmaṇa of the Taittiriya Āraṇyak. An Ancient Commentary on the Pravargya Ritual. Jamison, Stephanie E., and Joel P. Brereton (tr.). The Rigveda. The Earliest Religioius Poetry of India (3 vols.). Keith, Arthur Berriedale. The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads (2 vol.) Keith, Arthur Berriedale. Rigveda Brahmanas. The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda. Kolhatkar, Madhavi Bhaskar. Surā. The Liquor and the Vedic Sacrifice. Metrical Dindshenchas. https://celt.ucc.ie//published/T10650... Modi, Jivanji Jamshedji. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Parsees. http://avesta.org/ritual/rcc.htm. Muller, F. Max, and Julius Eggeling (tr.) The Satapatha Brahmana. The Sacred Books of the East. https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbr/... Nagy, Joseph Falaky. The Wisdom of the Outlaw. The Boyhood Deeds of Finn in Gaelic Narrative Tradition. Niall of the Nine Hostages. (The Adventures of the Sons of Eochaid Mugmedon): https://www.ancienttexts.org/library/... Ó Cathasaigh, Tomás. The Heroic Biography of Cormac Mac Airt. O’Flaherty, Wendy Doniger (tr. and ed). The Rig Veda. Oosten, Jarich G. The War of the Gods. Preideu Annwn. https://d.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/t... Puhvel, Jan. Comparative Mythology. Rennes Dindshenchas. https://www.ucd.ie/tlh/trans/ws.rc.15... Serith, Ceisiwr. Deep Ancestors. Practicing the Religion of the Proto-Indo-Europeans. Sturluson, Snorri. Edda. tr. Anthony Faulkes. Watkins, Calvert. “Let us Now Praise Famous Grains.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 122:1 (Feb., 1978), 9-17. https://books.google.com/books?id=TT0... Wilson, Peter Lamborn. Ploughing the Clouds. The Search for Irish Soma. [[ginevra2017-wife]] [Wikipedia: Samudra manthan: Comparative Mythology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samudra-manthan#Comparative-mythology)