In ancient Greek Mythology, ambrosia is the food and drinks of the Gods, often depicted as conferring ageless immortality upon whoever consumes it. It was brought to the Gods in Olympus by doves, so may have been thought of in the Homeric tradition as a kind of divine exhalation of the earth.
The concept of an immortality drink is attested in at least two Indo-European areas: Greek and Sanskrit. The Greek (ambrosia) is semantically linked to the Sanskrit(amrita) as both words denote a drink that gods use to achieve immortality. The two words may be derived from the same Indo-European form, immortal.
An example of the Ambrosia in mythology, is the story of the birth of Achilles, Thetis (mother of Achilles) anoints the infant with ambrosia and passes the child through the fire to make him immortal. But Peleus (father of Achilles), appalled, stops her, leaving only his heel unimmortalized.
There has been lot of different other stories about ambrosia, ambrosia means not mortal i.e. immortals, but there has been lots of debates wherein many classical scholars have denied that there is any clear example in which the word ambrosios specifically means immortals and rather they preferred to say that it may be considered as a fragrant. Well there were lot of things that were true but there has been so called some great scholars who always denied the real facts. Few examples are the death sentence to Socrates, Joan Of Arch, who was found innocent after 200yrs of her being burnt alive.
I believe I'm getting deviated from the topic, I'm here to share various recipes from different parts of India and also from the globe. So I would consider and refer Ambrosia to delicious cuisine.................
Thursday, October 1, 2009
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