Ambrosia
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In ancient Greek mythology, ambrosia is sometimes the food, sometimes the drink, of the gods, often depicted as conferring ageless immortality upon whoever consumes it. It was brought to the gods in Olympus by doves (Odyssey xii.62), so may have been thought of in the Homeric tradition as a kind of divine exhalation of the Earth.
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See also
- Ichor, blood of the Greek gods, related to ambrosia.
- Amrita, of Hindu mythology, a drink which confers immortality on the gods, and a cognate of ambrosia
- Iðunn's apples in Norse mythology.
- Elixir of life, a potion sought by alchemy to produce immortality.
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