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HYMN TO NINKASI
HYMN TO NINKASI
What’s in a name?
Beer is sacred. It’s been central to social and spiritual celebrations for millennia.
Much of what we know about beer’s ancient history traces back to the Hymn to Ninkasi, a 5,000-year-old ode to brewing etched into clay tablets found in Persia.
Ninkasi is not only the Sumerian goddess of beer and brewing, but of fertility, harvest, drunkenness, seduction, and war. Go girl.
HYMN TO NINKASI
Borne of the flowing water,
You are the one who handles the dough
Mixing in a pit, the bappir with sweet aromatics, with dates and honey,
Ninkasi, you are the one who bakes the bappir in the big oven,
Puts in order the piles of hulled grains,
Ninkasi, you are the one who waters the malt set on the ground,
Ninkasi, you are the one who soaks the malt in a jar,
The waves rise, the waves fall.
You are the one who spreads the cooked mash on large reed mats,
Coolness overcomes,
Ninkasi, you are the one who spreads the cooked mash on large reed mats,
Coolness overcomes,
You are the one who holds with both hands the great sweet wort,
Brewing it with honey and wine
You the sweet wort to the vessel
Ninkasi, You the sweet wort to the vessel
It is like the onrush of Tigris and Euphrates.
It is like the onrush of Tigris and Euphrates.
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