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🍻Ancient Mesopotamia: Beer Was EVERYTHING ​🌾
In Mesopotamia, beer was enjoyed by the lowest class and the highest class alike and was a daily dietary staple. The enjoyment of beer by humans and gods alike was depicted in paintings, poems, and myths, and it was consumed at this time through a straw to filter out pieces of bread or herbs in the drink.
The poem Inanna and the God of Wisdom has Inanna and Enki drinking beer together, and the Sumerian Hymn to Ninkasi—Ninkasi was the goddess of beer—is both a song of praise to the goddess and a recipe for beer.
The first brewers of beer were the priestesses of Ninkasi, which is not surprising since, before the commercial production of beer, women brewed it in their homes.
Beer became a regular commodity, especially after the Babylonians developed 20 categories of beer variants, and it was regularly traded, especially to Egypt, where it was very popular.
#beer #mesopotamia #goddess #egypt #history #worldhistory
🍻Ancient Mesopotamia: Beer Was EVERYTHING ​🌾
In Mesopotamia, beer was enjoyed by the lowest class and the highest class alike and was a daily dietary staple. The enjoyment of beer by humans and gods alike was depicted in paintings, poems, and myths, and it was consumed at this time through a straw to filter out pieces of bread or herbs in the drink.
The poem Inanna and the God of Wisdom has Inanna and Enki drinking beer together, and the Sumerian Hymn to Ninkasi—Ninkasi was the goddess of beer—is both a song of praise to the goddess and a recipe for beer.
The first brewers of beer were the priestesses of Ninkasi, which is not surprising since, before the commercial production of beer, women brewed it in their homes.
Beer became a regular commodity, especially after the Babylonians developed 20 categories of beer variants, and it was regularly traded, especially to Egypt, where it was very popular.
#beer #mesopotamia #goddess #egypt #history #worldhistory
