This thread is dedicated to alcohol drink in history.
Bonus if you post something with an historical significance, something spiritual or mythological.
ALCOHOL DRINK
Connor Walker
Blake Adams
In the Yoruba religion, Ogoun is an orisha (deity) and loa (spirit) who presides over iron, hunting, politics and war. He is the patron of smiths, and is usually displayed with a number of attributes: a machete, rum and tobacco. Ogoun comes to mount people in various aspects of his character, and the people who venerate him are quite familiar with each of them. His possessions can sometimes be violent. Those mounted by him are known to wash their hands in flaming rum without suffering from it later. They dress up in green and black, wave a sabre or machete, chew a cigar and demand rum in an old phrase “Gren mwe fret” (my testicles are cold). Often, this rum is first poured on the ground, then lit and, finally, the fumes generated by this are then allowed to pervade the peristyle. The sword, or much more commonly the machete, is his weapon and he often does strange feats of poking himself with it, or even sticking the handle in the ground, then mounting the blade without piercing his skin.
Carson Myers
Dionysus, Romanised as Bacchus, was the god of grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness and ecstasy in Greek mythology. He was later considered a patron of the arts. Dionysus is the son of Zeus and Semele. He was one of the most important gods of everyday life and became associated with the idea that under the influence of wine one could feel possessed by a greater power. On one hand he brings together joy and ecstasy, on the other chaos and misery, reflecting both sides of wines nature. He was a god who stood for the untamed nature of life. He wandered the world actively encouraging his cult. Maenads, women who had been driven mad, flush with wine and known for their cries of ‘oi’, accompanied him. The maenads achieved a state of ‘ecstasis’, which is where our word ecstasy comes from, and were famously outrageous. Festivals called Dionysia were held in his honour in the spring, when leaves started to reappear on the vine, Greek theatre was institutionalised here.
Oliver Jenkins
Raugupatis is known as the God of fermentation. Raugutiene is Raugupatis partner and she is known as the Goddess of beer.
Dylan Howard
Yasigi, African
This African goddess of beer was depicted as the ultimate party girl, a female deity depicted with ample breasts, a beer ladle and penchant for lustful dance.
Charles Carter
Yi-ti, Chinese
This Chinese god is said to have created the first rice wine. Not much is known about Yi-ti but it is said that he brewed the concoction for an emperor and may of used grapes as well as rice.
Charles Martin
This paper is about distillation of ogogoro in nothearstern Nigeria :
link.springer.com
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CONCLUSION
Many questions remain unanswered. but we can only conclude that, Argi belongs to the people of the old Sukur kingdom, namely, the Higgi, Marghi and others within that axis.
There was no evidence whatsoever that it had any foreign contribution in its production.
Owen Mitchell
What are some of the oldest sources about alcoholism? Pop history likes to classify Alexander the Great as an alcoholic, but is probably misguided. Grant was an alcoholic, but not during his command in the U.S. Civil War.
Also here's a nice bit of fluff, great read but probably would take with a whole spoonful of salt
>drunkard.com
Juan Perez
Thank you for your contribution.
Carter Russell
Ba-Maguje, Hausa Spirit of Drunkenness.