In ancient Greek myth, ambrosia ( , Greek: ????????, " immortality ") sometimes the food or drink of Greek gods, often described as conferring longevity or immortality on anyone who consumes it. It was brought to the gods in Olympus by pigeons.
Ambrosia is sometimes depicted in ancient art distributed by nymphs labeled with that name. In the myth of Lycurgus, the opponent of Dionysus wine god, the violence perpetrated against Ambrosia turned him into gossip.
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Definisi
Ambrosia is closely related to other forms of divine sustenance, nectar . Both terms may initially be indistinguishable; although in Homer's poetry the nectar is usually the drink and the food ambrosia of the gods; that with Hera's ambrosia "cleansing all the filthiness of his beautiful flesh", and with the ambrosia Athena prepares Penelope in her sleep, so when she appears for the last time before her suitors, the effects of the year have been stripped, and they are inflamed with excitement upon seeing her. On the other hand, in Alcman, nectar is food, and in Sappho and Anaxandrides, ambrosia is the drink. A character in Aristophanes Knights says, "I dreamed the goddess poured ambrosia over your head - out of a spoon." Both descriptions can be true, because Ambrosia can be a liquid that is considered as food (like honey).
Consumption of ambrosia is usually reserved for divine beings. After assuming immortality in Olympus, Heracles was given ambrosia by Athena, while the hero Tydeus was denied the same thing when the goddess found him eating the human brain. In one version of the myth of Tantalus, part of Tantalus's evil is that after tasting his own ambrosia, he tries to steal some to give to other humans. Those who consume ambrosia usually have no blood in their blood vessels, but ichor.
Nectar and ambrosia are fragrant, and can be used as perfumes: in Odyssey Menelaus and his men disguised as seals on unsupervised seal skin, and the deadly smell of seal skin irritates us; but the goddess saved us; he brought ambrosia and put it under our nostrils. "Homer talks about ambrosial clothes, ambrosial hair locks, even godless ambrosial sandals.
Among later writers, ambrosia has been so often used with the general meaning of "pleasant fluid" written by late authors such as Athenaeus, Paul and Dioscurides using it as a technical term in the context of cookery, medicine, and botany.. Pliny uses terms that are related to different plants, as did the early shaman.
In addition, some modern ethnomycologists, such as Danny Staples, identify ambrosia with the hallucinogenic mushroom Amanita muscaria: "it is the food of the gods, their ambrosia, and the nectar is the bitter sap of its juice", Staples asserted.
WH Roscher thinks that nectar and ambrosia are a type of honey, which in this case their power to grant immortality is due to the supposed healing powers and cleansing of honey, which is actually anti-septic, and because fermented honey (mead) preceded wine as an entheogen in the world Aegean; on some Minoan seals, the goddesses are represented with bee faces (compare Merope and Melissa).
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Etymology
The concept of immortality drinks is evidenced in at least two Indo-European regions: Greece and Sanskrit. Greek people ???????? ( ambrosia ) semantically associated with Sanskrit ???? ( me? ta ? - m? -tÃÆ'³s , "not dying" ( n - : the negative prefix of where the prefix a - in Greek and Sanskrit comes; m? : zero * mer - , "dead"; and -to - : adjective suffix). A similar semantic etymology exists for nectar, the drink of the gods (Greek: ?????? nÃÆ' Â © ktar ) which is considered a compound of PIE root * nek - , "death", and - * tar , "coping".
Another example in mythology
- In one version of the Achilles birth story, Thetis anoints the baby with ambrosia and passes the boy through fire to make it immortal but Peleus, shocked, stops him, leaving only his heels unlabelled ( Argonautica 4.869-879).
- In Iliad xvi, Apollo washes the black blood from Sarpedon's corpse and anoints it with ambrosia, preparing it for the return of the dream to the original Sarycon Lycia. Similarly, Thetis anoints Patroclus's corpse to preserve it. In addition, both ambrosia and nectar are described as ointment (xiv, 170, xix 38).
- In Odyssey, Calypso is described as "spreading the table with ambrosia and arranging it by Hermes, and mixing red-red nectar." It's ambiguous whether he means ambrosia itself reddish, or if he describes the red-red honey drink, Hermes drinks together with ambrosia. Later, Circe mentioned to Odysseus that a group of pigeons was the carrier of ambrosia to Olympus.
- In Odyssey (ix.345-359), Polyphemus likens the wine given to him by Odysseus to ambrosia and nectar.
- One of Tantalus's displeases, according to Pindar, is that he offers his guests ambrosia of Men Without Death, the theft is similar to Prometheus, Karl Kerenyi records (in Greek heroes ).
- In the Homer hymn for Aphrodite, the goddess uses "the ambrosial bride oil she has prepared for."
- In the story of Cupid and Psyche told by Apuleius, Psyche is given an ambrosia after he completes the quest set by Venus and his reception at Olympus. After he took part, he and Cupid married as gods.
- Some ancient Egyptian statues from Anubis read, "... I am death... I eat ambrosia and drink blood..." which implies that ambrosia is a kind of food.
- In Aeneid , Aeneas meets her mother in alternate form, or illusion. When he becomes his divine form "Ambrosia her hair inhale the sacred aroma."
Lycurgus from Thrace and Ambrosia
Lycurgus of Thrace, an antagonist of Dionysus, forbade the cult of Dionysus, whom he drove from Thrace, and was driven by a god. In his grief, he kills his son, whom he misappropriates as an adult ivy plant, and the nymph Ambrosia, which turns into a grapevine.
See also
- Ichor, the blood of the Greek gods, is related to ambrosia.
- Amrita, Hindu mythology, a drink that grants immortality to a god, and a clump of ambrosia.
- Soma, an important ritual drink among early Indo-Iranians, and the subsequent Vedas and a larger Persian culture.
- Unloved apples in Norse mythology.
- Peaches of Immortality in Chinese mythology.
- The spirit of life, an herb sought by alchemy to produce immortality.
- Silphium
- Manna, food given by God to the Israelites.
Resources and resources
- References
- Source
- Clay, Jenny Strauss, "Eternal and youthful forever", The Classical Journal 77 .2 (December 1981: pp.Ã , 112 -117).
- Ruck, Carl A.P. and Danny Staples, World of Classical Myth 1994, p.Ã, 26 et seq. [1]
- Wright, F. A., "Food of the Gods", Classic Reviews 31 .1, (February 1917: 4-6).
- EncyclopÃÆ'Â|dia Britannica 1911: Ambrosia
External links
- Media associated with Ambrosia on Wikimedia Commons
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