By Gabe Luzier
These myths are so good they ’ll make you leave exhaust Paleo .
1. Eating like a bird
The immortal of the Grecian pantheon were no stranger to lavish gifts , but when a flying of doves introduced them to sweet ambrosia , it became a staple at Mount Olympus . Greek author , though , were n’t sure whether the goody was a food or a drinkable . ( Some scholars guess ambrosia was honey . Others , psychotropic mushrooms . ) For their part , the doves never divulge where they receive the sweet in the first piazza .
2. The lord of party crashing
Food has never been soft to come by in the Australian outback , so you may imagine how raging the topical anesthetic got when one immortal started hoarding all the grub for himself . Luma - luma was a supernatural whale who disguised himself as a man to learn Gunwinggu aborigines dancing and painting . Problem was , the gluttonous god made all the food at his worshipers ’ feast taboo so only he could eat it . At first , he was only banish — penance for taking more than his fair share at the local feasts — but when Luma - luma begin raid a mortuary for a snack , the tribesman band together and repel the mooching whale - lord back into the sea .
3. A peachy secret to eternal life
Ever wonder how deities keep themselves fit for so long ? fit in to Chinese mythology , it ’s all in a steady diet of mantrap . But not just any peaches — only those grown in the goddess Xi Wang - mu ’s garden . The magic peaches take millennia to ripen , but that did n’t block off the trickster god Monkey from devour an entire crop one year . Monkey was expelled from heaven as punishment , sentenced to a lifespan of inferior gem fruit .
4. The burp that made a goddess
Even god have fuss tell when they ’ve had one too many . That ’s what happen to Daksha — the Logos of the Hindu god Brahma — when he felt a knock-down thirst for primeval Milk River . In a story recite in the Indian epic Mahabharata , Daksha made himself sick by drinking too much of the nectar - like amrita that had risen to the surface of the churning cosmic sea . When Daksha gave a worshipful belch , he spewed out the sacred moo-cow goddess Kamadhenu - Surabhi . The godlike female parent of all cattle , Daksha ’s burp - baby has been serving up benevolence with a side of dairy farm to pious Hindus ever since .
