did the celtic gods eat ambrosia?

Answer 1

Ambrosia = honey.
Traditionally, food of the gods for the Greeks and before them the ancient Egyptians. Honey was found in the pharaohs' tombs (since they were gods) and, interestingly, was still edible (so much for a two-year "best before" date on the stuff in the supermarket!) The ancient Jews also viewed honey as a heavenly food: paradise was "the land of milk and honey".

Honey was considered magical/ holy because of its intense sweetness (nothing else came close in the ancient world) and because people didn't understand how it was made. They knew it was collected by bees, but didn't understand the process of turning nectar (still quite watery, so not v sweet) into honey (around 85% sugars).

The Celts would have had access to honey, so I wouldn't be surprised to find it also had godly connections then.

Answer 2

"In Greek mythology, nectar and ambrosia are the food of
the gods. It is believed that the two terms were not
originally distinguished".

http://www.gurupedia.com/n/ne/nectar.htm

In Greek, mbrotos means 'mortal' - it was derived from
Mrtyu (death) in Sanskrit and Telugu. (It has extra B).
Ambrosia means the drink of immortality.
The drinks nectar and ambrosia
were supposed to give immortality. Amruthah (or
Amruthas) was such a drink in ancient Hindu legends.

Let us analyse the origin of the word Ambrosia.
Its consonants are MBRS. The consonants
BSR (with loss of D, S and Y are equal sounding)
become cognate with Padiyaaru (sixteen) in Telugu.
What is the connection between the number 16
and immortality?

The Hindu texts have described several periods of
life time. Baalyam means childhood period upto 10 years
of age. The period between 10 years and 25 years is
called Koumaaram which roughly corresponds with
adolescence. Within this period, Kurra means the age of
16. This is called the age of eternity. Russian
scientists have found that if the control systems in
the body are maintained at the same level of efficiency
as they are at the age of 16 years, using some
machinery or electronic control system, a person can
live for 10000 years. The Puranas say that people in
Krita Yuga (the golden age according to esoteric texts)
lived for 10000 years. However contrary it may be, this
very age of eternity is also the age of commencement of
the period of gradual death. Some Hindu texts say that
there is divinity in children. The possible
interpretation of this line could be that this process
of gradual death does not touch children until they
reach the age of 16 years. (Most children who die
before the age of 16 are due to external factors,
malnutrition etc). This is verified by the fact that
the percentage of persons who die at the age of 16 are
the lowest compared to any other age. This fact
observed by ancestors went into fairy tales which say
that a princess will die on her 16th birthday. Modern
medicine has found that 'brain sand' starts forming in
the pineal gland after the age of 16. The pineal gland
is the third eye, and it is the seat of Mukya Prana
(chief life) according to ancient Yoga and Tantra
texts. Modern madicine found that a person can lead an
almost normal life evern if 30 to 40 percent of brain
matter is removed. But no person survives if the pineal
gland is removed.

It only speaks of interaction between Andhras of India
and people of ancient Europe. One more example
for that interaction is this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeneas

Answer 3

Only for Greek gods was food. They eat ambrosia and drink nectar. The myth says that if a mortal eat ambrosia he would become an immortal with eternal youth. The goddess who serves the ambrosia to gods was Hebe (Zeus' and Hera's daughter), the goddess of youth.

Answer 4

I think the Greek mythology Ambrosia could be either a liquid or a food (a bit like milk maybe),it was supposed to be a giver of life or even a returner of life.
What is was made from i'm not sure, just that it had the power of healing or the power of immortality.
I dont recall it on Celitc mythology, but I guess they probably had the same sort of thing maybe called by a different name.

Answer 5

Ambrosia was the food of the Greek Gods. Nectar was their drink.

Answer 6

The Greek gods were the ones typically associated with ambrosia, as their primary food. (That said, Greek gods did consume other foods from time to time.)

The Celtic gods, according to the stories, seemed to favor pork. Dagda's cauldron also factored in, though it's unclear what sort of food one would find in it.

Answer 7

It probably wasn't called ambrosia but I'm sure they had their own version. Ambrosia as we know it today (fruit salad) is very likely different from the Greek version since it means 'heavenly' so it could consist of anything really.

Answer 8

no i think greek gods used to eat ambrosia, i don;t know about the celtic gods

Answer 9

No the celtic Gods lived before the company was founded

Answer 10

No that was the greeks, the celtic gods had dagdha's cauldron