Beer In Ancient Civilization

The people of these developing civilizations believed that beer had a supernatural background due to their lack of knowledge of scientific processes such as the fermentation that occurred in the gruel. The Egyptians told the story of how Osiris accidentally discovered beer by leaving gruel out in the sun, drank it, and when he liked it, he decided to pass it on the humans and the tale of Hathor and Ra. Also, the Sumerian god Enki’s story in a slab of Sumerian cuneiform gave the people a recipe on how to make the drink by describing the brewing process to the reader. With the idea of the god’s giving beer to humans, they believed that it would be a reasonable offering to the gods during religious ceremonies and other rites involving agriculture
and funerals. Additionally, these ideas can be found in most cultures, including the Incas and Aztecs were the Incas offered chicha to the sun and spit a mouthful on the ground to keep the world from ending, while the Aztecs offered pulque to Mayahuel, the goddess of fertility.