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Plants of the Gods: S4E2. Part 1 — Brian C. Muraresku: The Eleusinian Mysteries, Discovering the Divine, The Immortality Key, The Pagan Continuity Hypothesis and the Hallucinogenic Origins of Religion

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The Origins of Beer and Wine

In Gobekli Tepe, 6,000 years before Stonehenge, there's this place called Bechle Tepe. The German archaeological folks think the giant megalithic T-shaped pillars were meant to represent some kind of deities. They would come there for ritual purposes, they think, to commune with the dead over something like a graveyard beer. And so, it raises this big question, did the agricultural revolution start with beer?

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