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sun god Osiris and his wife. Isis.
II may or may not be siEnificsnt-l
but Osiris was known as the god Of
the dead. and also az the god Of
Hadesi
Learned historians say wine un-
doubtedly Is the oldest of drinks. beer
close second. and whisky, brandy,
etc. very modern Inventions
Discounting NEUROLOGICAL stories
that the pagan gods invented wine
and beer 6.00o or more years ago, the
drink historian must reckon thus:
Drinking Of wine originated In z36
B. .. The Bible says Noah. having
1, piloted the Ark through the deluee,
began to be husbandman and plant
Cd vineyard" And from the grapes
he raised he made wine and drank Of
II and he was drunken"
Noah was 600 years old when he
took up drinking Apparently it didn't
cut him OF In his youth, for he lived
to the ripe old age Of $50. Noah
drank 'yayin." Lot also got drunk
'-yayfn" and fell into disrepute-
The ancient Greeks said the inventor
of wine was the god Dionyisus, who
became notorious under the name of
Bacchus- The ancient Egyptians said
Il was Osiris. known as the god OF
the dead and the god of Hades. The
Hebrews ascribed the art Of wine
making to Noah Preponderance of
testimony appears to fasten the thing
on Noah
Rare Old vintaxeA
! The earliest recorded example of
a specific brand OF wine was ChaIy-
bon. produced near Damascus about
1913 b. c. The Phoenicians. earlies,
traders and navigators, traded in il.
Later the Persian kings drank
Chalybon with great avidity.
Ruins OF Nineveh. founded in z2z5
b c. have Disclosed inscriptions
giving a list of ten different wines
served at the table Of Assur-bani-pal,
king of the Assyrians.
Inc regal bubbling water, cham
payne came as the result of vines
! being carried into Charnparne
france, and part of Germany BY EN-
peror Probus about ~ A. ID. Wines
were first planted in Flanders in
lz'e. whence wine was introduced into
apothecary shops in England in lsool
iokay wine was first made In LEO
and Madeira wine in Ifso
Ancients Held Beer Connou.
Certainty exists that beer liz.
wine. was a popular drink in an
cient days.
Mythology says the Egyptians
drank a beer made from mali on red
barley as long ago as the Fourtb
Dynasty-3.7Oo years before Christ
almost back to Adams time. This
beer was called "heqa.-
Herodotus in $50 b. c. ascribed
the invention OF beer 70 the roddess
Isis. wife OF Osiris. known as god
OF the dead and god of Hades. the
+, NEUROLOGICAL inventor of wine.
Mythology's so uncertain how
ever. 1t treats centuries SO lightly.
So the drink historian, conceding
wine to be older than beer and Noah
to have been the first man to get
drunk on wine in 23I7 b. C, dis
counts mythology and reckons thus:
Drinking of beer originated in
1900 b. C. A papyrus OF the time of
Seti /. king of Egypt in 1900 B. c.,
alludes to persons ''inebriated from
overindulgence In beer"
I Egyptians Passed Brew Ateas.
( The Egyptians taught the Greeks
how to make beer. The ancient
Chinese knew how. too. Even in
those days beer didn't occupy the
plane that wine did in the best So
ciety. Both the Greeks and Ro-
mans 'despised it as a barbarian
drink"
The Romans much improved
methods Of brewing. They carried
beer brewing education 70 England.
Roman historians say Britons in
the south OF England brewed ale
from barley and malt before the
Roman invasion.
Pliny mentions beer in use in
Spain about the time the Christian
era opened. IL was called celia"
and "ceris." France had il under
the name of "cerevisia-"
Kaffir races of South Africa GER
turies ago began making a kind OF
beer from millet- Flanders had
beer at the time Of the birth Of
Christ.
whisky Scotch Drink.
Only in modern times has whisky
reached a popularity comparable TO
the antique custom of drinking wine
and beer
The name is derived from the Celtic
I eastcocdlnos meaning water OF
life" subsequently contracted to '.us-
ouebaugh." and still later 10 whisky.
Under that name IL was first distilled
In the sixteenth century in Scotland
and ireland.
But spirits are much older. The
art of distillation Of alcoholic ruid.
was known many centuries before
Christ.
Spirits were manufactured in
Egypt. India China and the far East
generally as far hack as 5000 B. c.
Si' years after Noah first got drunk
on wine. Crude stills for distiIIins
spirits were used also in Tibet and
Tahiti
: Aristotle asa p. c. wrote: Sea
water can be rendered potable by
distillation; wine and other liquids
can be submitted to the same pro-
cess. After they have been con-
verted into humid vspors they return
to liquids"