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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... land served as the focus of this agricultural cult . Initiates to the Eleusinian Mysteries were offered the promise of rebirth after death ; and they witnessed just such a rebirth when they saw the sacred barley seed sprout from the ...
... land served as the focus of this agricultural cult . Initiates to the Eleusinian Mysteries were offered the promise of rebirth after death ; and they witnessed just such a rebirth when they saw the sacred barley seed sprout from the ...
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... Land of Spices , a leg- endary , distant world . Some people even imag- ined that all of the aromatic spices grew in this land on the same tree . Some of the spices were transported down the Nile , and the re- cipients of these products ...
... Land of Spices , a leg- endary , distant world . Some people even imag- ined that all of the aromatic spices grew in this land on the same tree . Some of the spices were transported down the Nile , and the re- cipients of these products ...
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... land was formed ; the land was the whale in fact , and some demiurge like Raven harpooned it . Raven appears as creator deity in many Arctic myths . One myth involving primal har- pooning told how Raven sailed over the sea looking for land ...
... land was formed ; the land was the whale in fact , and some demiurge like Raven harpooned it . Raven appears as creator deity in many Arctic myths . One myth involving primal har- pooning told how Raven sailed over the sea looking for land ...
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