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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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Was Bread Invented to Make Beer?

Bob Greene: Was bread invented to make beer, or was beer invented to make bread? And in either case, it shows that beer was one of the building blocks of civilization. He says his colleague Patrick McGovern's work is really fundamental to sort of teasing this out. The Midas touch, for example, which he recreated based on a Phrygian potion, eighth century BC,. So this could be theoretically harkening back to King Midas.

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