Wine

A Dweller on Two Planets

A nation of 85 million people

The general had taken too much strong wine and was rather unsteady in his motions.

Neither liked the other, and the Salda, also excited by wine, became quarrelsome.

A Dweller on Two Planets

Strict religious customs of Poseid

I had often met him on former occasions and, by his wine-colored turban, knew him for a prince.

Revelation 18

Thus shall Babylon sink

Reason for the Fall: The angel states that all the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the abundance of her luxury.

It is said that “all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality” (Revelation 18:3).

For all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living.”

and cinnamon and spice and incense and perfume and frankincense and wine and olive oil and fine flour and wheat and cattle and sheep, and cargoes of horses and chariots and slaves and human lives.

Ignatius Donnelly

The Deluge of the Chaldeans

I stopped up the chinks through which the water entered in;--I visited the chinks, and added what was wanting.--I poured on the exterior three times 3600 measures of asphalte,--and three times 3600 measures of asphalte within.--Three times 3600 men, porters, brought on their heads the chests of provisions.--I kept 3600 chests for the nourishment of my family,--and the mariners divided among themselves twice 3600 chests.--For [provisioning] I had oxen slain;--I instituted [rations] for each day.--In anticipation of the need of] drinks, of barrels, and of wine--[I collected in quantity] like to the waters of a river, [of provisions] in quantity like to the dust of the earth.-[To arrange them in] the chests I set my hand to.--.

The angel instructs Manoah's wife to avoid wine, intoxicating drinks, and impure food, as her son will be a Nazirite from birth.

Central Greece

Mount Cithaeron

Mount Cithaeron is also closely associated with the worship of Dionysus, the god of wine, fertility, and ecstasy.

However, a conflict arose when Heracles opened a jar of sacred wine, leading to a violent encounter with the other centaurs who attacked him.

It was believed to be a sacred place dedicated to the god Dionysus, the god of wine, fertility, and religious ecstasy.

According to ancient sources, this oracle was one of the few dedicated to the god of wine, offering prophecies to those who sought them.

"And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine.

Verse: "And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine.

"And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine.

Disciple Dojo

The Baal Cycle

She is offered bread and wine, symbolizing offerings to the gods.

These rituals involved capturing bulls and mixing their blood with wine, which had significant religious and symbolic meaning.

The kings would use this bowl to draw and mix the blood of a sacrificed bull with wine.

After the blood was mixed with wine, the kings would drink from the bowl.

These sections provide further details on the rituals, including the capture of the bull, the mixing of its blood with wine, and the ceremonial drinking by the kings.

Paa Taraq

Their 3 Abodes

They must drink alcohol, caffeine for the alkaloid, alcohol, beer, whiskey, wine, rum, gin, and scotch for the fermentation.

Turning Water into Wine: God of wine who could transform substances, similar to Jesus' miracle at Cana.

Atlanteans

Elijah

During the Passover Seder, a cup of wine is left for Elijah, and the door is opened in anticipation of his return.

John Lear suggested that aliens view human souls as a commodity, comparing our bodies to containers in which these souls mature, akin to wine.

Antoinette Bourignon

Primeval man and the birth of Eve

The vessels were charged with liquors of various colours of intense brilliancy and transparency; some of these fluids were water, milk, wine, fire, etc.

In his stomach was a clear fluid, like water in a crystal bowl, in which tiny eggs developed themselves, like bubbles in wine, as he glowed with the ardour of Divine charity; and when he strongly desired that others should unite with him in the work of praise, he deposited one of these eggs, which hatched, and from it emerged his consort, Eve.

The people participated in various ceremonies and festivals that involved acts of frenzied worship, self-mutilation, and the use of wine and other intoxicants to reach states of ecstatic devotion.

The effects are specific to certain items, so broad beans can cure "agonizing love," ten dirhams of ground saffron mixed with wine will cause anyone who drinks it to laugh until they die.

Matias compares the Christian ritual of Communion, where bread and wine are consumed as symbols of Christ's body and blood, to a Masonic initiation ritual that involves drinking wine from a skull.

What is the origin of Jesus turning water into wine?

Biblical

Golden objects

Golden Wine Cups: In certain parables or teachings, golden cups may symbolize the preciousness of divine wrath or judgment (Jeremiah 51:7, Revelation 17:4).

Biblical

Canaanites

24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

He falls asleep, drunk on wine, and a vision of a cedar and an olive tree comes to him.

[1] And GOD Anu blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.[2] And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.[3] Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.[4] But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.[5] And surely your blood bloodline of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man altered humans; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man altered humans.[6] Whoso sheddeth shed man altered humans's blood, by man altered humans shall his blood be shed: for in the image of GOD Anu made he man altered humans.[7] And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.[8] And GOD Anu spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,[9] And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;[10] And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.[11] And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.[12] And GOD Anu said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:[13] I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.[14] And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:[15] And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.[16] And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between GOD Anu and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.[17] And GOD Anu said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.[18] And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.[19] These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.[20] And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:[21] And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.[22] And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren brothers without.[23] And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.[24] And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.[25] And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren brothers.