Nectar and Ambrosia: An Encyclopedia of Food in World MythologyBloomsbury Academic, 26. 10. 2000. - 285 страница A publishing first, Nectar and Ambrosia presents an encyclopedic treatment of the magic properties and uses of food by mortals and immortals alike, from the pages of myth and legend. |
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... FISH Fish is one of the oldest foods , but not all an- cient peoples with fish available to them chose to eat these creatures . Many , in fact , strictly avoided them . Mythical associations with fish ranged from evil water snake to ...
... FISH Fish is one of the oldest foods , but not all an- cient peoples with fish available to them chose to eat these creatures . Many , in fact , strictly avoided them . Mythical associations with fish ranged from evil water snake to ...
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... fish eating in ancient Egypt also was based in the mythology of water . Creatures of the deep were eerie , if not in- herently evil . Some people in other parts of the African continent as well as in India saw fish as ... fish as an 94 FISH.
... fish eating in ancient Egypt also was based in the mythology of water . Creatures of the deep were eerie , if not in- herently evil . Some people in other parts of the African continent as well as in India saw fish as ... fish as an 94 FISH.
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... fish as an aphrodisiac every Friday on her worship day ; Venus was the Roman goddess of love and sex , and fish were sacred to her . * Venus , like the Hindu love goddess Lakshmi , rose from the sea water . The people of Assyria , in ...
... fish as an aphrodisiac every Friday on her worship day ; Venus was the Roman goddess of love and sex , and fish were sacred to her . * Venus , like the Hindu love goddess Lakshmi , rose from the sea water . The people of Assyria , in ...
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