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and geographical restrictions apply. Welcome back to the Egyptian history podcast, episode 40, feasting, laughing and dancing.

In which we take a break from the narrative history of the Nile Valley

to focus on Egyptian parties and celebrations of the divine.

There will be drunkenness, debauchery, sexuality and mischief.

I have treated this behaviour frankly frankly but not crudely.

Still if you find such matters distasteful this episode may best be skipped.

This episode is brought to you by Rich, Lane and Marcus, who donated to the podcast while I was writing it.

At this rate, I'll never get around to thanking the dozens of people who have donated, but I promise I am working on it.

To all my listeners, thank you very much for your support. The mouth of a perfectly contended man is filled with beer, said an anonymous Egyptian of the Old Kingdom.

And at festival time, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find an Egyptian disagreeing with

the sentiment.

After all, free beer was one of the big pools of a festival.

Egyptian beer was a cloudy wheat beer produced from molted grains,

which could be flavored with honey or fruit to taste.

It was also one of the most prominent and valued of consumables.

And to make a beer hall with someone was synonymous with spending time in conviviality and friendship.

It was said that the brewing of beer had been taught to humanity by Osiris himself,

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