He also possesses the hound Failinis, which catches any prey and turns water into wine.
It can spark a craving for power, control, and dominance, transforming a person like wine overtaking someone’s senses —turning them darker, even dangerous.
We have roots, cheeses, fresh pressed juices and new wine to bring up from the cooling cellar.
But lo, the spirit of him who is dead sucketh out the spirit of the wine and leaveth him distracted still.
Another darker chamber openeth; a dealer in wines is dead; one with fashionable home, and wife and daughters, high aspiring.
He goeth from saloon to saloon sniffing the air of roasted viands, and fat meats, and of wines; the smell of the fat man is his delight; and the woman that rejoiceth in sin, rare flesh and fat soups, is as a cushion for him to roll upon.
Their famous chant was: "Over huis, over tuin, over staak, en dat tot Keulen in de wijnkelder!" (Across houses, across gardens, across stakes, even to Cologne into the wine cellar!).
1. Near Hebron in the hills of Judah, Zacharias and Elizabeth abode.2. They were devote and just, and every day they read the Law, the Prophets and the Psalms which told of one to come, strong to redeem; and they were waiting for the king.3. Now, Zacharias was a priest, and in his turn he led the temple service in Jerusalem.4. It came to pass as Zacharias stood before the Lord and burned the incense in the Holy Place, that Gabriel came and stood before his face.5. And Zacharias was afraid; he thought that some great evil was about to come upon the Jews.6. But Gabriel said, O man of God, fear not; I bring to you and all the world, a message of good will, and peace on earth.7. Behold, the Prince of Peace, the king you seek, will quickly come.8. Your wife will bear to you a son, a holy son, of whom the prophet wrote,9. Behold, I send Elijah unto you again before the coming of the Lord; and he will level down the hills and fill the valleys up, and pave the way for him who shall redeem.10. From the beginning of the age your son has borne the name of John, the mercy of the Lord; his name is John.11. He will be honoured in the sight of God, and he will drink no wine, and from his birth he will be filled with Holy Breath.12. And Gabriel stood before Elizabeth as she was in the silence of her home, and told her all the words that he had said to Zacharias in Jerusalem.13. When he had done the service of his course, the priest went home, and with Elizabeth rejoiced.14. Five months passed by and Gabriel came to Mary in her home in Nazareth and said,15. Hail Mary, hail!
The razor shall not touch your face nor head, and you shall taste not wine nor fiery drinks.14. Men need a pattern for their lives; they love to follow, not to lead.15. The man who stands upon the corners of the paths and points the way, but does not go, is just a pointer; and a block of wood can do the same.16. The teacher treads the way; on every span of ground he leaves his footprints clearly cut, which all can see and be assured that he, their master went that way.17. Men comprehend the inner life by what they see and do.
At Katak, by the river side, he taught, and thousands of the people followed him.2. One day a car of Jagannath was hauled along by scores of frenzied men, and Jesus said,3. Behold, a form without a spirit passes by; a body with no soul; a temple with no altar fires.4. This car of Krishna is an empty thing, for Krishna is not there.5. This car is but an idol of a people drunk on wine of carnal things.6. God lives not in the noise of tongues; there is no way to him from any idol shrine.7. God's meeting place with man is in the heart, and in a still small voice he speaks; and he who hears is still.8. And all the people said, Teach us to know the Holy One who speaks within the heart, God of the still small voice.9. And Jesus said, The Holy Breath cannot be seen with mortal eyes; nor can men see the Spirits of the Holy;10. But in their image man was made, and he who looks into the face of man, looks at the image of the God who speaks within.11. And when man honours man he honours God, and what man does for man, he does for God.12. And you must bear in mind that when man harms in thought, or word or deed another man, he does a wrong to God.13. If you would serve the God who speaks within the heart, just serve your near of kin, and those that are no kin, the stranger at your gates, the foe who seeks to do you harm;14. Assist the poor, and help the weak; do harm to none, and covet not what is not yours;15. Then, with your tongue the Holy One will speak; and he will smile behind your tears, will light your countenance with joy, and fill your hearts with peace.16. And then the people asked.
1. When other certain days had passed, the guide led Jesus to the Hall of Mirth, a hall most richly furnished, and replete with everything a carnal heart could wish.2. The choicest viands and the most delicious wines were on the boards; and maids, in gay attire, served all with grace and cheerfulness.3. And men and women, richly clad, were there; and they were wild with joy; they sipped from every cup of mirth.4. And Jesus watched the happy throng in silence for a time, and then a man in garb of sage came up and said, Most happy is the man who, like the bee, can gather sweets from every flower.5. The wise man is the one who seeks for pleasure, and can find it everywhere.6. At best man's span of life on earth is short, and then he dies and goes, he knows not where.7. Then let us eat, and drink, and dance, and sing, and get the joys of life, for death comes on apace.8. It is but foolishness to spend a life for other men.
He turns water into wine.
And that was all that Jesus said.8. As Jesus stood apart in silent thought his mother came and said to him, The wine has failed; what shall we do?9. And Jesus said, Pray what is wine?
They are but certain kinds of thought made manifest, and I can manifest that thought, and water will be wine.11. He called the servants, and he said to them, Bring in six water pots of stone, a pot for each of these, my followers, and fill them up with water to the brims.12. The servants brought the water pots, and filled them to their brims.13. And Jesus with a mighty thought stirred up the ethers till they reached the manifest, and, lo, the water blushed, and turned to wine.14. The servants took the wine and gave it to the ruler of the feast who called the bridegroom in and said to him,15. This wine is best of all; most people when they give a feast bring in the best wine at first; but, lo, you have reserved the best until last.16. And when the ruler and the guests were told that Jesus, by the power of thought, had turned the water into wine, they were amazed;17. They said, This man is more than man; he surely is the christed one who prophets of the olden times declared would come.18. And many of the guests believed on him, and gladly would have followed him.
1. In Nazareth Jesus taught no more; he went with his disciples up to Cana, where, at a marriage feast, he once turned water into wine.2. And here he met a man of noble birth whose home was in Capernaum, whose son was sick.3. The man had faith in Jesus' power to heal, and when he learned that he had come to Galilee he went in haste to meet him on the way.4. The man met Jesus at the seventh hour, and he entreated him to hasten to Capernaum to save hi son.5. But Jesus did not go; he stood aside in silence for a time, and then he said, Your faith has proved a healing balm; your son is well.6. The man believed and went his way toward Capernaum and as he went he met a servant from his home who said,7. My lord, You need not haste; your son is well.8. The father asked, When did my son begin to mend?9. The servant said, On yesterday about the seventh hour the fever left.10. And then the father knew it was the healing balm that Jesus sent that saved his son.11. In Cana Jesus tarried not he went his way with his disciples to Capernaum, where he secured a spacious house where, with his mother, he could live, where his disciples might repair to hear the Word.12. He called the men who had confessed their faith in him to meet him in his home, which his disciples called, The school of Christ; and when they came he said to them,13. This gospel of the Christ must be proclaimed in all the world.14. This Christine vine will be a mighty vine whose branches will comprise the peoples, tribes and tongues of all the earth.15. I am the vine; twelve men shall be the branches of the stock, and these shall send forth branches everywhere;16. And from among the people who have followed me, the Holy Breath will call the twelve.17. Go now and do your work as you have done your work; but listen for the call.18. Then the disciples went unto their daily tasks, to do their work as they had done, and Jesus went alone into the Hammoth hills to pray.19. Three days and nights he spent communing with the Silent Brotherhood; then, in the power of Holy breath he came to call the twelve.
He is so good and kind when he is just himself; I know it is the wine that makes another man of him.16. And Jesus went out with the child; he found the wretched home; he spoke in kindness to the mother and the little ones, and then upon a bed of straw he found the drunken man.17. He took him by the hand and raised him up and said, My brother, man, made in the image of our Father-God, will you arise and come with me?18. Your neighbours are in sore distress; they have lost all they had in this fierce fire, and men must build their homes again and you and I must lead the way.19. And then the man arose; the two went arm in arm to view the wrecks.20. They heard the mothers and the children crying in the streets; they saw their wretchedness.21. And Jesus said, My friend, here is work for you to do.
Yea, and more; a messenger whom God had sent to pave the way for what you see and hear this day.22. Among the men of earth a greater man has never lived than John.23. Behold I say, This man whom Herod bound in chains and cast into a prison cell is God's Elijah come again to earth.24. Elijah, who did not pass the gate of death, whose body of this flesh was changed, and he awoke in Paradise.25. When John came forth and preached the gospel of repentance for the cleansing of the soul, the common folks believed and were baptised.26. The lawyers and the Pharisees accepted not the teachings of this man; were not baptised.27. Behold, neglected opportunities will never come again.28. Behold, the people are unstable as the waters of the sea; they seek to be excused from righteousness.29. John came and ate no bread, and drank no wine.
God is not a man that he should show respect for one and cast another off.19. Whoever will may come and gird himself, and trim his lamp, and find a turret in the tower of life where he may watch, and be prepared to meet the Lord.20. But you, as children of the light, have come, and you have learned the language of the court, and may stand forth and lead the way.21. But you may wait, and think that you are ready to receive the Lord, and still he does not come.22. And you may grow impatient and begin to long for carnal ways again, and may begin to exercise your rule;23. To beat, and otherwise maltreat the servants of the house, and fill yourselves with wine and meat.24. And what will say the Lord when he shall come?25. Behold, for he will cast the faithless servant from his house; and many years will come and go before he can be cleansed, and be thought worthy to receive his Lord.26. The servant who has come into the light, who knows the Master's will and does it not; the trusted guard who goes to sleep within the turret of the tower of life,27. Shall feel the lash of justice many times, while he who does not know his Master's will and does it not, will not receive the graver punishment.28. The man who comes and stands before the open door of opportunity and does not enter in, but goes his way,29. Will come again and find the door made fast, and when he calls, the door will open not,30. The guard will say, you had the pass-word once, but you threw it away and now the Master knows you not; depart.31. And verily I say to you, To whom much has been given, much is required; to whom a little has been given, a little only is required.
1. A royal feast was held in honour of the birthday of the tetrarch in fortified Machaerus, east of the Bitter Sea.2. The tetrarch, Herod, and his wife, Herodias, together with Salome were there; and all the men and women of the royal court were there.3. And when the feast was done, lo, all the guests and courtiers were drunk with wine; they danced and leaped about like children in their play.4. Salome, daughter of Herodias, came in and danced before the king.
The beauty of her form, her grace and winning ways entranced the silly Herod, then half drunk with wine.5. He called the maiden to his side and said, Salome, you have won my heart, and you may ask and I will give you anything you wish.6. The maiden ran in childish glee and told her mother what the ruler said.7. Her mother said, Go back and say, Give me the head of John, the harbinger.8. The maiden ran and told the ruler what she wished.9. And Herod called his trusty executioner and said to him, Go to the tower and tell the keeper that by my authority you come to execute the prisoner known as John.10. The man went forth and in a little while returned and on a platter bore the lifeless head of John, and Herod offered it unto the maiden in the presence of the guests.11. The maiden stood aloof; her innocence was outraged when she saw the bloody gift, and she would touch it not.12. Her mother, steeped and hardened well in crime, came up and took the head and held it up before the guests and said,13. This is the fate of every man who dares to scorn, or criticise, the acts of him who reigns.14. The drunken rabble gazed upon the gruesome sight with fiendish joy.15. The head was taken back unto the tower.
Might not the priesthood be a benefit to your divine philosophy?6. But Jesus said, You cannot put new wine in ancient skins, for when it purifies itself, lo, it expands; the ancient bottles cannot bear the strain; they burst, and all the wine is lost.7. Men do not mend a worn-out garment with a piece of cloth unworn, which cannot yield to suit the fabric, weak with age, and then a greater rent appears.8. Old wine may be preserved in ancient skins; but new wine calls for bottles new.9. This spirit-truth I bring is to this generation new, and if we put it in the ancient skins of Jewish forms, lo, it will all be lost.10. It must expand; the ancient bottles cannot yield and they would burst.11. Behold the kingdom of the Christ!
Have mercy, Lord, and open up our eyes that we may see.33. And Jesus said, Do you believe that I can open up your eyes and make you see?34. They said, Yea, Lord, we know that if you speak the Word then we can see.35. And Jesus touched their eyes and spoke the Word; he said, According to your faith so will it be.36. And they were blest; they opened up their eyes and saw.37. And Jesus said, Tell not this thing to any one.38. But they went forth and told the news through all the land.39. As Jesus walked along the way a man who was obsessed, and who was dumb, was brought to him.40. And Jesus spoke the Word; the unclean spirit came out of the man; his tongue was loosed; he spoke; he said, Praise God.41. The people were amazed; They said, This is a mighty deed; we never saw that done before.42. The Pharisees were also much amazed; but they cried out and said,43. You men of Israel, take heed; this Jesus is a tool of Beelzebul; he heals the sick and casts the spirits out in Satan's name.44. But Jesus answered not; he went his way.45. And with the foreign masters and the twelve he went up to the town where he once turned the water into wine, and tarried certain days.
He spoke in parables; he said,2. A man possessed a vast estate; he planted out a vineyard, placed a hedge about it, built a tower, installed the press for making wine.3. He placed his vineyard in the hands of husbandmen and then he journeyed to a distant land.4. Now, in the vintage time the man sent forth a servant to receive and bring to him his portion of the fruitage of the vines.5. The husbandmen came forth and beat the man; laid forty lashes on his back and cast him out beyond the vineyard gate.6. And then the owner sent another man to bring to him his own.
My only son is here, and I will send him to the husbandmen,9. They surely will respect my son and send me what is mine.10. He sent his son; the husbandmen took counsel with themselves; they said, This is the only heir to all this wealth, and if we take his life the vast inheritance is ours.11. They took his life and cast him out beyond the vineyard hedge.12. The days will come; the owner will return to reckon with the husbandmen, and he will seize them every one, and cast them into scorching fires where they shall stay until they pay the debts they owe.13. And he will place his vineyard in the care of honest men.14. Then turning to the priests and scribes he said, Did not your prophets say,15. The stone the builders cast away became the capstone of the arch?16. You men who pose as men of God, as husbandmen, lo, you have stoned and killed the messengers of God, his prophets and his seers, and now you seek to slay his son.17. I tell you men, the kingdom shall be snatched away from you, and shall be given unto people who are not a people now, and to a nation that is not a nation now.18. And men whose speech you cannot understand, will stand between the living and the dead, and show the way to life.19. The chief priests and the Pharisees were deeply moved with anger when they heard this parable and would have seized the Lord and done him harm, but they were sore afraid; they feared the multitude.20. And Jesus spoke another parable; he said, The kingdom is a-like a ceratin king who made a feast in honour of the marriage of his son.21. He sent his servants forth to call the people who had been invited to the feast.22. The servants called; but then the people would not come.23. And then the king sent other messengers abroad to say, Behold, my tables now are spread; my oxen and my fatlings are prepared.24. The choicest viands and the richest wines are on my boards; come to the marriage feast.25. The people laughed and treated with disdain his call, and went their way, one to his farm, another to his merchandise;26. And others seized the servants of the king; abused them shamefully; and some of them they killed.27. And then the king sent forth his soldiery who slew the murderers and burned their towns.28. And then the king sent other servants forth; to them he said, Go to the corners of the streets, the partings of the ways, and to the marts of trade and say,29. Whoever will may come up to the marriage feast.30. The servants went their way and called; and lo, the banquet hall was filled with guests.31. But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man who had not on a wedding robe; he called to him and said,32. Friend, why are you here without a wedding robe?
And then he gave to each a piece of bread to eat.40. And then he took a cup of wine and said, Blood is the life, this is the life-blood of the grape; it is the symbol of the life of him who gives his life for men.41. And as you drink this wine, if you shall drink in faith, you drink the life of Christ.42. And then he supped and passed the cup, and the disciples supped; and Jesus said, This is the feast of life, the great passover of the son of man, the Supper of the Lord, and you shall often eat the bread and drink the wine.43. From henceforth shall this bread be called Remembrance bread; this wine shall be Remembrance wine; and when you eat this bread and drink this wine remember me.
So the first question I wanted to ask is—um—the so—these miracles that we know from Jesus—you know, like splitting the water and the fish and—uh—I don't know, turning something into wine and stuff like that—do you think he had like high-tech gadgets that he used to do that, or do you think it was—did you—do you think it came from a—uh—maybe like a—uh—like a telepathic or telekinetic or something like that—you know, from—from the mind?
They would give confidence to the aged by an increasing use of wine, which, as they get older, is to unloose their tongues and make them sing.
They will require a little wine, to mellow the austerity of age, and make them amenable to the laws.
This is the way with drink: one person brings many witnesses, who sing the praises of wine; another declares that sober men defeat drunkards in battle; and he again is refuted in turn.
And now let us set wine before the puppet.
You admit that wine stimulates the passions?
'Yes.' And does wine equally stimulate the reasoning faculties?
'Very true.' Let us return to the lawgiver and say to him, 'Well, lawgiver, no such fear-producing potion has been given by God or invented by man, but there is a potion which will make men fearless.' 'You mean wine.' Yes; has not wine an effect the contrary of that which I was just now describing,—first mellowing and humanizing a man, and then filling him with confidence, making him ready to say or do anything?
No one should be allowed to taste wine until they are eighteen; from eighteen to thirty they may take a little; but when they have reached forty years, they may be initiated into the mystery of drinking.
'Doubtless.' And did we not say that the souls of the drinkers, when subdued by wine, are made softer and more malleable at the hand of the legislator?
'Very true.' The other story implies that wine was given to punish us and make us mad; but we contend that wine is a balm and a cure; a spring of modesty in the soul, and of health and strength in the body.
I would go further than Crete or Lacedaemon and have the law of the Carthaginians, that no slave of either sex should drink wine at all, and no soldier while he is on a campaign, and no magistrate or officer while he is on duty, and that no one should drink by daylight or on a bridal night.
And there are so many other occasions on which wine ought to be prohibited, that there will not be many vines grown or vineyards required in the state.
In a similar spirit we spoke of the Dorian expedition, and of the settlement on the hills and in the plains of Troy; and of music, and the use of wine, and of all that preceded.
Wine is to cheer them now that their limbs are old and their blood runs cold.
Youth has no need of the stimulus of wine, but age can only be made young again by its invigorating influence.
The physician in modern times would restrict the old man's use of wine within narrow limits.
Wine may call back the vital powers in disease, but cannot reinvigorate old age.
His commendation of wine is probably a passing fancy, and may have arisen out of his own habits or tastes.
Plato's denial of wine to the young and his approval of it for their elders has some points of view which may be illustrated by the temperance controversy of our own times.
Wine may be allowed to have a religious as well as a festive use; it is commended both in the Old and New Testament; it has been sung of by nearly all poets; and it may be truly said to have a healing influence both on body and mind.
Total abstinence, as we often say, is not the best rule, but moderate indulgence; and it is probably true that a temperate use of wine may contribute some elements of character to social life which we can ill afford to lose.
We entirely agree with Plato in forbidding the use of wine to the young; but when we are of mature age there are occasions on which we derive refreshment and strength from moderate potations.
We are in a higher, as well as in a lower sense, the better for the use of wine.
And yet to enact a law that the rich and mighty shall not marry the rich and mighty, that the quick shall be united to the slow, and the slow to the quick, will arouse anger in some persons and laughter in others; for they do not understand that opposite elements ought to be mingled in the state, as wine should be mingled with water.
Much wine is only to be drunk at the festivals of Dionysus, and certainly not on the occasion of a marriage.
I am not speaking of drinking, or not drinking, wine at all, but of intoxication.
But the Scythians and Thracians, both men and women, drink unmixed wine, which they pour on their garments, and this they think a happy and glorious institution.
I will endeavour to explain my meaning more clearly: what I am now asking is this—Does the drinking of wine heighten and increase pleasures and pains, and passions and loves?
ATHENIAN: And the same view may be taken of the pastime of drinking wine, if we are right in supposing that the same good effect follows?
CLEINIAS: I suppose that he will say, Yes,—meaning that wine is such a potion.
When a man drinks wine he begins to be better pleased with himself, and the more he drinks the more he is filled full of brave hopes, and conceit of his power, and at last the string of his tongue is loosened, and fancying himself wise, he is brimming over with lawlessness, and has no more fear or respect, and is ready to do or say anything.
What is better adapted than the festive use of wine, in the first place to test, and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it?
Shall we begin by enacting that boys shall not taste wine at all until they are eighteen years of age; we will tell them that fire must not be poured upon fire, whether in the body or in the soul, until they begin to go to work—this is a precaution which has to be taken against the excitableness of youth;—afterwards they may taste wine in moderation up to the age of thirty, but while a man is young he should abstain altogether from intoxication and from excess of wine; when, at length, he has reached forty years, after dinner at a public mess, he may invite not only the other Gods, but Dionysus above all, to the mystery and festivity of the elder men, making use of the wine which he has given men to lighten the sourness of old age; that in age we may renew our youth, and forget our sorrows; and also in order that the nature of the soul, like iron melted in the fire, may become softer and so more impressible.
For wine has many excellences, and one pre-eminent one, about which there is a difficulty in speaking to the many, from a fear of their misconceiving and misunderstanding what is said.
ATHENIAN: There is a tradition or story, which has somehow crept about the world, that Dionysus was robbed of his wits by his stepmother Here, and that out of revenge he inspires Bacchic furies and dancing madnesses in others; for which reason he gave men wine.
ATHENIAN: The other story implied that wine was given man out of revenge, and in order to make him mad; but our present doctrine, on the contrary, is, that wine was given him as a balm, and in order to implant modesty in the soul, and health and strength in the body.
I would go further than the Cretans and Lacedaemonians, and am disposed rather to the law of the Carthaginians, that no one while he is on a campaign should be allowed to taste wine at all, but that he should drink water during all that time, and that in the city no slave, male or female, should ever drink wine; and that no magistrates should drink during their year of office, nor should pilots of vessels or judges while on duty taste wine at all, nor any one who is going to hold a consultation about any matter of importance; nor in the day-time at all, unless in consequence of exercise or as medicine; nor again at night, when any one, either man or woman, is minded to get children.
There are numberless other cases also in which those who have good sense and good laws ought not to drink wine, so that if what I say is true, no city will need many vineyards.
And this, Stranger, shall be the crown of my discourse about wine, if you agree.
And so, after the death of Cyrus, his sons, in the fulness of luxury and licence, took the kingdom, and first one slew the other because he could not endure a rival; and, afterwards, the slayer himself, mad with wine and brutality, lost his kingdom through the Medes and the Eunuch, as they called him, who despised the folly of Cambyses.
Now, to add to the law an express provision, not only that the rich man shall not marry into the rich family, nor the powerful into the family of the powerful, but that the slower natures shall be compelled to enter into marriage with the quicker, and the quicker with the slower, may awaken anger as well as laughter in the minds of many; for there is a difficulty in perceiving that the city ought to be well mingled like a cup, in which the maddening wine is hot and fiery, but when chastened by a soberer God, receives a fair associate and becomes an excellent and temperate drink (compare Statesman).
Drunkenness is always improper, except at the festivals of the God who gave wine; and peculiarly dangerous, when a man is engaged in the business of marriage; at such a crisis of their lives a bride and bridegroom ought to have all their wits about them—they ought to take care that their offspring may be born of reasonable beings; for on what day or night Heaven will give them increase, who can say?
The law however forbids strangers from sharing in the sort which is not used for eating; and if any one, whether he be master or slave, takes of them in ignorance, let the slave be beaten, and the freeman dismissed with admonitions, and instructed to take of the other autumnal fruits which are unfit for making raisins and wine, or for laying by as dried figs.
As to the retail trade in these things, whether of barley or wheat set apart for meal and flour, or any other kind of food, no one shall sell them to citizens or their slaves, nor shall any one buy of a citizen; but let the stranger sell them in the market of strangers, to artisans and their slaves, making an exchange of wine and food, which is commonly called retail trade.
Will he say that they are like pilots, who are themselves turned away from their duty by 'libations of wine and the savour of fat,' and at last overturn both ship and sailors?
"And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high Elohim."
The Arabic rauka, to strain or purify, as wine, is precisely our English word rack, to rack wine.
For Gnostics, the bread and wine symbolized spiritual nourishment rather than physical sacrifice.
“The cup of prayer contains one wine and water, since it is appointed as a type of the blood.”
And they engage in selling wine, and in dealing in stocks, after the manner of the idolater.
O man, I have heard you, in your** fullness, say: I must have my flesh-food; I must have my wine and beer and tobacco and opium.
Behold, the Uzians have a custom of eating bread, and drinking wine, saying, after the manner of the worshipers of Baugh-ghan-ghad, of old: Eat of this, for it is my flesh; and, drink of this, for it is my blood, signifying, that that they do, was commanded by me, God of heaven and earth.
Thy God never commanded man to eat flesh and blood, nor pretended that bread and wine were flesh and blood, nor commanded them to be eaten in remembrance of the flesh and blood of any man born of woman.
I go not about turning water into wine, like a magician, or professing to raise the dead!
They feasted on flesh and wine and the cows went astray, i.e., receptive to spiritual things (Pali).
Go, then, procure wine and women, and feast thyself while you mayst.
To turn a rod into a serpent, or water into wine; or to show the spirits of the dead, alas, O king, even they that are of rotten flesh can do such things!
But there was no es'pa of flesh or fish present on the tables; but an abundance of the es'pa of wine, and this was called NECTAR (su-be).
Dionysus: God of wine, revelry, and ecstasy, born of Zeus and Semele.
Twelve ships were then laden with wine, honey, tanned leather, and saddles and bridles mounted in gold, such as had never been seen before.
When they were well established, their merchants exchanged their beautiful copper weapons and all sorts of jewels for our iron weapons and hides of wild beasts, which were abundant in our southern countries; but the Golen celebrated all sorts of vile and monstrous festivals, which the inhabitants of the coast promoted with their wanton women and sweet poisonous wine.
Bacchus and Neptune: Bacchus, often associated with wine and revelry, is identified with ancient Jaguar imagery in Central American ruins.
The earth brought forth fine fruits, flesh grew on trees, and milk and wine flowed in many rivers.
Chang planned to slaughter the cock for a party and went to buy some wine.
Getting angry, they felled trees, killed snakes and held sham funerals, caught owls and salamanders to play games with, and offered small jars of wine to Heaven's shrine.
He drank palm wine, which caused him to become inebriated.
Under the influence of the palm wine, Obatala made mistakes in molding some figures, leading to the creation of individuals with physical deformities.
After the lunar landing, astronaut Buzz Aldrin, a 33rd-degree Freemason, performed a ceremony involving bread and wine, reminiscent of ancient Egyptian rituals dedicated to Osiris.
The history of Atlantis could be in part reconstructed out of the mythology of Greece; it is a history of kings, queens, and princes; of love-making, adulteries, rebellions, wars, murders, sea-voyages, and colonizations; of palaces, temples, workshops, and forges; of sword-making, engraving and metallurgy; of wine, barley, wheat, cattle, sheep, horses, and agriculture generally.
Dionysus, or Bacchus, is represented by the Mexican god Texcatzoncatl, the god of wine.
"Now at the end of the year the god Titlacahuan had warned Nata and his spouse Nena, saying, 'Make no more wine of Agave, but begin to hollow out a great cypress, and you will enter into it when in the month Tozontli the water approaches the sky.'
Thus, the turban of the Sovereign was of pure carmine-hued silk; of the councilors, a wine red, and of lesser officials, a pale pink.
This I show as taught me or as eye of soul beholds: A man in drunken frenzy, and all helpless first I show as on the tablets drawn, or cut by tempered "steel" the greater was the cup he held, the grapes full big, extolled the strength of wine which could a man subdue.
Not the fiery fluid which today ye know, but an elixir mixed with well-riped wine which then produced a power of thought and vigor of the brain that gave discernment to the dullest mind.
Still other cups were wove from crystal as a basket grows from taper fingers, each clear strand apart, yet so welded to its fellow that the wine passed not between; in color cups like these were blue or gold or mocking wine with redness.
Not the father's, yet a father's hand did reach to each the fruit it best did love, or when sipping gently his well-sweetened wine, bade each red lip quaff but one draught from out his bowl or vase.
Hair of snowy hue clung round a brow no length of knowledge stamped, and eyes were dulled with wine, and form, which God made perfect to contain a soul, was warped with foul excess.
tell calmly that a smith may beat, entwine, and weave his vase at will, but bubbles blown from forms, or cords in shape, may not this day hold wine or lotus.
And thus from day to day the wily strangers plied with words, and wine, the officers of duty to the fleet that stretched out proudly-whitened wood and bark, great iron bands that made the cypress firm; and floating banners, dangling in the breeze, were later wafted broadly as they set them forth at midnight when the plot had worked its potency.
Each statesman holding in the hand which showed his monarch's ring—a gift all prized—a goblet fair of that rare fluid, yellow shot with rose, a wine distilled with care.
Wine drunken some were treated to the flow of
And thus I saw them—maid and wife and child—the form—but useless cask which spilled the golden wine that means the breath of God.
The priest lay in his temple, dead with wine, or knelt, as is the way of priest, before a gem-lit shrine to catch the eye of the kneeling, shrinking throng who caught a hint of doom.