In Greek mythology, if ambrosia is the food of the gods and nectar their drink, what is 'ichor'?
"head—out of a ladle."" Both descriptions could be correct, as ambrosia could be a liquid considered a food (such as honey). The consumption of ambrosia was typically reserved for divine beings. Upon his assumption into immortality on Olympus, Heracles is given ambrosia by Athena, while the hero Tydeus is denied the same thing when the goddess discovers him eating human brains. In one version of the myth of Tantalus, part of Tantalus' crime is that after tasting ambrosia himself, he attempts to steal some away to give to other mortals. Those who consume ambrosia typically had not blood in their"
"in Homer's poems nectar is usually the drink and ambrosia the food of the gods; it was with ambrosia Hera ""cleansed all defilement from her lovely flesh"", and with ambrosia Athena prepared Penelope in her sleep, so that when she appeared for the final time before her suitors, the effects of years had been stripped away, and they were inflamed with passion at the sight of her. On the other hand, in Alcman, nectar is the food, and in Sappho and Anaxandrides, ambrosia is the drink. A character in Aristophanes' ""Knights"" says, ""I dreamed the goddess poured ambrosia over your"
"Ambrosia In the ancient Greek myths, ambrosia (, ) is sometimes the food or drink of the Greek gods, often depicted as conferring longevity or immortality upon whoever consumed it. It was brought to the gods in Olympus by doves. ""Ambrosia"" is sometimes depicted in ancient art as distributed by a nymph labeled with that name. In the myth of Lycurgus, an opponent to the wine god Dionysus, violence committed against Ambrosia turns her into a grapevine. Ambrosia is very closely related to the gods' other form of sustenance, ""nectar"". The two terms may not have originally been distinguished; though"
"*""mer-"", ""to die""; and ""-to-"": adjectival suffix). A semantically similar etymology exists for nectar, the beverage of the gods (Greek: νέκταρ ""néktar"") presumed to be a compound of the PIE roots ""*nek-"", ""death"", and ""-*tar"", ""overcoming"". Lycurgus of Thrace, an antagonist of Dionysus, forbade the cult of Dionysus, whom he drove from Thrace, and was driven mad by the god. In his fit of insanity he killed his son, whom he mistook for a stock of mature ivy, and the nymph Ambrosia, who was transformed into the grapevine. Ambrosia In the ancient Greek myths, ambrosia (, ) is sometimes the"
"a technical terms in contexts of cookery, medicine, and botany. Pliny used the term in connection with different plants, as did early herbalists. Additionally, some modern ethnomycologists, such as Danny Staples, identify ambrosia with the hallucinogenic mushroom ""Amanita muscaria"": ""it was the food of the gods, their ambrosia, and nectar was the pressed sap of its juices"", Staples asserts. W. H. Roscher thinks that both nectar and ambrosia were kinds of honey, in which case their power of conferring immortality would be due to the supposed healing and cleansing powers of honey, which is in fact anti-septic, and because fermented"
"study. Ancient Greek Religion In ancient Greek religion, the food of Zeus and the 12 Gods of Olympus was honey in the form of nectar and ambrosia. Hinduism In Hinduism, honey (""Madhu"") is one of the five elixirs of immortality (""Panchamrita""). In temples, honey is poured over the deities in a ritual called ""Madhu abhisheka"". The ""Vedas"" and other ancient literature mention the use of honey as a great medicinal and health food. Judaism In Jewish tradition, honey is a symbol for the new year, ""Rosh Hashanah"". At the traditional meal for that holiday, apple slices are dipped in honey"
"reabsorbed into the plant. ""Nectar"" is derived from Greek ""nektar"", the fabled drink of Greek gods. The word is derived as a compound of ""nek"", meaning death, and ""tar"", meaning the ability to overcome. The common use of nectar refers to the ""sweet liquid in flowers"", first recorded in AD 1600. A nectary is floral tissue found in different locations in the flower. The different types of floral nectaries include septal nectaries found on the sepal, petal nectaries, staminal nectaries found on the stamen, and gynoecial nectaries found on the ovary tissue. The nectaries also may vary in color, number,"
"the original cup-bearer to the Greek Gods of Mount Olympus serving them nectar and ambrosia. Hêbê is the daughter of Zeus and Hera and is shown doing her cup-bearer duties in Homer's ""Iliad"": ""The gods were seated near to Zeus in council, upon a golden floor. Graciously Hebe served them nectar, as with cups of gold they toasted one another, looking down toward the stronghold of Ilion."" Hêbê's role of cup bearer ended when she married war hero Heracles who joined Hêbê amongst the Gods and Goddesses and started a family. Hêbê was then replaced by Ganymede. The Roman Gods"
"Ihy Ihy is a god in ancient Egyptian mythology who represents the ecstasy of playing the sistrum. His name may mean ""sistrum player"", referring to his function, or ""calf"". This is in allusion to his relationship with the cow goddess Hathor who was often said to be his mother. Other goddesses might be called his mother, however, including Isis, Sekhmet, and Neith. The god Horus is Ihy's father. Ihy was depicted as a child holding a sistrum or as a nude child with his finger in his mouth. He was worshiped alongside Horus and Hathor at Dendera. Hathor was his"
"been named after the nymph, it more likely derives from the mythical and lustful satyrs. This aphrodisiac is mentioned twice in the Satyricon of Petronius. Satyrion In Greek mythology, Satyrion is the name of a nymph, perhaps from the region of Taranto, Italy. Her union with the god Poseidon produced Taras. Satyrions is a former name for orchids from their connection to satyrs. Orchis was the son of a satyr and a nymph, who was killed for insulting a priestess of Bacchus, and was turned into the flower that bears his name. It was believed that orchids were the food"
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"Demeter. The name ""Iacchus"" may come from ""iacchus"", a hymn sung in honor of him. With the epithet Liknites (""he of the winnowing fan"") he is a fertility god connected with the mystery religions. A winnowing fan was similar to a shovel and was used to separate the chaff from the grain. In addition, Dionysus is known as Lyaeus (""he who unties"") as a god of relaxation and freedom from worry, and as Oeneus he is the god of the wine press. In the Greek pantheon, Dionysus (along with Zeus) absorbs the role of Sabazios, a Phrygian deity. In the"
"an entheogen that was the gift of the Goddess, preceded the knowledge of wine in Aegean culture. These honey-kings consorting with the Goddess will have combined their position of authority with a sacral role, but modern interpreters would not follow Robert Graves in asserting that Melliseus ""Adrasteia and Io's reputed father, is really their mother, Melissa— the goddess as Queen-bee, who annually killed her male consort."" When he came to maturity, Zeus rewarded his nymph nurses with the horn of Amaltheia, the cornucopia or horn of plenty that is always full of food and drink. Callimachus' ""Hymn to Zeus,"" full"
"honey (mead) preceded wine as an entheogen in the Aegean world; on some Minoan seals, goddesses were represented with bee faces (compare Merope and Melissa). The concept of an immortality drink is attested in at least two Indo-European areas: Greek and Sanskrit. The Greek ἀμβροσία (""ambrosia"") is semantically linked to the Sanskrit (""amṛta"") as both words denote a drink or food that gods use to achieve immortality. The two words appear to be derived from the same Indo-European form *""ṇ-mṛ-tós"", ""un-dying"" (""n-"": negative prefix from which the prefix ""a-"" in both Greek and Sanskrit are derived; ""mṛ"": zero grade of"
"the Indo-Europeans encountered wine, the entheogen of Dionysus, who brought it with him from his birthplace in the mythical Nysa, when he returned to claim his Olympian birthright. The Indo-European proto-Greeks ""recognized it as the entheogen of Zeus, and their own traditions of shamanism, the Amanita and the 'pressed juice' of Soma — but better, since no longer unpredictable and wild, the way it was found among the Hyperboreans: as befit their own assimilation of agrarian modes of life, the entheogen was now cultivable."" Robert Graves, in his foreword to ""The Greek Myths,"" hypothesises that the ambrosia of various pre-Hellenic"
"the sea-going Aphroi (Carthaginians), where a mosaic uncovered in Tunisia confirms this belief. It depicts a pair of African sea-gods swimming alongside Poseidon's chariot—one is the ichthyocentaur Aphros, and the other a twin-tailed Triton, god of the Libyan lake Tritonis. Another mosaic art piece depicts Bythos alone carrying the Nereis Thetis along with two other Nereides, Doris and Galateia. Ichthyocentaurs In late poetical Greek mythology, ichthyocentaurs (, plural: Ιχθυοκένταυροι), were a race of centaurine sea gods with the upper body of a human, the lower front of a horse, the tail of a fish, and lobster-claw horns on their heads."
"kingship. Hathor was the mother in many of these local triads of gods. At Dendera, the mature Horus of Edfu was the father and Hathor the mother, while their child was Ihy, a god whose name meant ""sistrum-player"" and who personified the jubilation associated with the instrument. Other children of Hathor included a minor deity from the town of Hu, named Neferhotep, and several child forms of Horus. The milky sap of the sycomore tree, which the Egyptians regarded as a symbol of life, was likened to Hathor's milk, and this tree was one of her symbols. The milk was"
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"stars as the constellation Boötes. There is a mosaic in Paphos, Cyprus, from a Roman villa from the mid 2nd century A.D. which is called ""Dionysus House"". The mosaic ""First wine drinkers"" describes Dionysus giving the gift of vine and wine to Icarius as a reward for Icarius' generous hospitality. It was probably this Icarius whom Clement of Alexandria referred to as husband of Phanothea, a woman who was believed to have invented the hexameter. Icarius (Athenian) In Greek mythology, Icarius (; ""Ikários"") was a man from Athens who welcomed the god Dionysus. Icarius was cordial towards Dionysus, who gave"
"immortality, and when Hera’s enmity changed to friendship, he married her daughter Hebe, who bore him sons Alexiares and Anicetus."" Alexiares and Anicetus Alexiares and Anicetus (Ἀλεξιάρης ""Alexiarês"" and Ανικητος ""Anikêtos"") are minor deities in Greek Mythology. They are the immortal sons of Heracles, the greatest of the Greek heroes and the strongest mortal to live, and Hebe, the goddess of youth the server of Ambrosia and nectar to the other Olympian gods. Along with their father Heracles, they possilby were the guardians of Mount Olympus, and the pair may have been regarded as the gatekeepers of Olympus, a role"
"tribes was ""Amanita muscaria"" (which, based on the morphological similarity of the words amanita, amrita and ambrosia, is entirely plausible) and perhaps psilocybin mushrooms of the genus ""Panaeolus"". Amanita was divine food, according to Ruck and Staples, not something to be indulged in or sampled lightly, not something to be profaned. It was the food of the gods, their ambrosia, and it mediated between the two realms. It is said that Tantalus's crime was inviting commoners to share his ambrosia. The entheogen is believed to offer godlike powers in many traditional tales, including immortality. The failure of Gilgamesh in retrieving"
"plant as a ceremonial emetic. In the island of Crete in Greece the leaves and the tender shoots of a variety called maroula (μαρούλα) or agriomaroulo (αγριομάρουλο) are eaten boiled. It is used by a growing number of Jews and the Samaritans as the Maror (bitter herb) on Pesach.[citation needed] The Egyptian god Min is associated with this species of lettuce. Also, archaeobotanical evidence in Greek archaeological contexts is scanty, although uncarbonised seeds have been retrieved from a 7th-century BC deposit in a sanctuary of Hera on Samos. It is also described by Theophrastus. In mythology, Aphrodite is said to"
"Iris (mythology) In Greek mythology, Iris (; ) is the personification and goddess of the rainbow and messenger of the gods. According to Hesiod's ""Theogony"", Iris is the daughter of Thaumas and the Oceanid Electra, and the sister of the Harpies: Aello and Ocypete. During the Titanomachy, Iris was the messenger of the Olympian Gods, while her twin sister Arke betrayed the Olympians and became the messenger of the Titans. She is the goddess of the rainbow. She also serves nectar to the gods and goddesses to drink. Iris is married to Zephyrus, who is the god of the west"
"Alexiares and Anicetus Alexiares and Anicetus (Ἀλεξιάρης ""Alexiarês"" and Ανικητος ""Anikêtos"") are minor deities in Greek Mythology. They are the immortal sons of Heracles, the greatest of the Greek heroes and the strongest mortal to live, and Hebe, the goddess of youth the server of Ambrosia and nectar to the other Olympian gods. Along with their father Heracles, they possilby were the guardians of Mount Olympus, and the pair may have been regarded as the gatekeepers of Olympus, a role which was often assigned to their immortal father. Additionally, they were likely responsible for the protection and fortification of towns"
"mother and Horus as his father Ihy Ihy is a god in ancient Egyptian mythology who represents the ecstasy of playing the sistrum. His name may mean ""sistrum player"", referring to his function, or ""calf"". This is in allusion to his relationship with the cow goddess Hathor who was often said to be his mother. Other goddesses might be called his mother, however, including Isis, Sekhmet, and Neith. The god Horus is Ihy's father. Ihy was depicted as a child holding a sistrum or as a nude child with his finger in his mouth. He was worshiped alongside Horus and"
"are arranged is decorated with motifs in relief. The two cartouches - separated by a fantastic figure - show Amphitrite, a sea goddess from Greek mythology, on the left, and Ceres, the Roman corn goddess, on the right. These two goddesses were typically used in allegorical representations of the four elements to symbolise water and earth respectively. The other two cartouches on that part of the vase that is invisible likely show Vulcan, who was associated with fire, and Apollo, who was associated with air. The occurrence of the four elements and the flowers in a single work can be"
"deities the nearest related to Aphrodite."" Myrtle is the garland of Iacchus, according to Aristophanes, and of the victors at the Theban ""Iolaea"", held in honour of the Theban hero Iolaus. In Rome, Virgil explains that ""the poplar is most dear to Alcides, the vine to Bacchus, the myrtle to lovely Venus, and his own laurel to Phoebus."" At the Veneralia, women bathed wearing crowns woven of myrtle branches, and myrtle was used in wedding rituals. In the Aeneid, myrtle marks the grave of the murdered Polydorus in Thrace. Aeneus' attempts to uproot the shrub cause the ground to bleed,"
"became a recurring character in the second year of ""The Incredible Hercules"" beginning in issue #127. The third child of Zeus and Hera (her brothers are Ares and Hephaestus), she is the Goddess of Youth and the cup-bearer of the gods, responsible for brewing ambrosia. She was married to the newly-divine Hercules as a peace offering between Hercules and her mother Hera, and for a time the two of them had a happy relationship. However, Hercules grew dissatisfied with life on Olympus, and returned to the mortal world in search of adventure. He also began having affairs, which left Hebe"
"Ampelos by covering the body with flowers—roses, lilies, anemones—and infusing it with ambrosia. The dead boy's metamorphosis creates the first grapevine, which in turn produces the transformative substance of wine for human use. The rites of Adonis ""(Adoneia)"" also came to be regarded as a Rosalia in the Imperial era. In one version of the myth, blood from Aphrodite's foot, pricked by a thorn, dyes the flowers produced from the body of Adonis when he is killed by the boar. In the ""Lament for Adonis"" attributed to Bion (2nd century BC), the tears of Aphrodite match the blood shed by"
"also equated with water of the Nile inundation and thus agricultural fertility. In the Late, Ptolemaic, and Roman Periods, many temples contained a creation myth that adapted long-standing ideas about creation to give the primary role to local deities. The version from Hathor's temple at Dendera emphasizes that she, as a female solar deity, was the first being to emerge from the primordial waters that preceded creation, and it says that her life-giving light and milk nourished all living things. Like Meskhenet, another goddess who presided over birth, Hathor was connected with ""shai"", the Egyptian concept of fate, particularly when"
"agent of action, protection or wrath. The Eye of Horus was represented as a hieroglyph, designated D10 in Gardiner's sign list. It is represented in the Unicode character block for Egyptian hieroglyphs as U+13080 (𓂀). In Egyptian society, the eye of Horus was also a plant, which they included in elixirs and cakes. This plant was believed to have the ability to confer immortality onto people. One myth includes gods living upon plant life growing near a lake in Sekhet-hetep. The plants by this great lake was believed to be baked into the 'bread of eternity'. In Ancient Egypt, most"
"Ichthyocentaurs In late poetical Greek mythology, ichthyocentaurs (, plural: Ιχθυοκένταυροι), were a race of centaurine sea gods with the upper body of a human, the lower front of a horse, the tail of a fish, and lobster-claw horns on their heads. The best-known members of this race were Aphros and Bythos, two half-brothers of the wise centaur Chiron and the sons of the Titan Cronus and Nymph Philyra. Though little remembered, they were set in the sky as the astronomical constellation Pisces. The twin ichthyocentaurs appear together in several works of art. A first- or second-century mosaic from Zeugma, Commagene,"
"offerings. The ""kantharos"" seems to be an attribute of Dionysos, the god of wine, who was associated with vegetation and fertility. As well as a banqueting cup, they could be used in pagan rituals as a symbol of rebirth or resurrection, the immortality offered by wine, ""removing in moments of ecstasy the burden of self-consciousness and elevating man to the rank of deity."" Kantharos A kantharos () or cantharus is a type of ancient Greek cup used for drinking. Although almost all surviving examples are in Greek pottery, the shape, like many Greek vessel types, probably originates in metalwork. In"