Mead Gods"; it is referred to as the drink of the gods. In "The Inheritance Cycle" series by Christopher Paolini, the protagonist, Eragon, often drinks mead at feasts. It is also referenced in "The Kingkiller Chronicle" novel series by Patrick Rothfuss. The protagonist Kvothe is known to drink metheglin. The non-existent "Greysdale Mead" is also drunk, although it is merely water. The drink of mead is mentioned many times in Michael Crichton's "Eaters of the Dead" published 1976. Mead Mead (, from Old English "medu") is an alcoholic beverage created by fermenting honey with water, sometimes with various fruits, spices, grains,
Soma (drink) some source...(Michael Wood (historian))(The Story of India) The finishing of "haoma" in Zoroastrianism may be glimpsed from the Avesta (particularly in the "Hōm Yast", Yasna 9), and Avestan language "*hauma" also survived as middle Persian "hōm". The plant "haoma" yielded the essential ingredient for the ritual drink, "parahaoma". In Yasna 9.22, haoma grants "speed and strength to warriors, excellent and righteous sons to those giving birth, spiritual power and knowledge to those who apply themselves to the study of the nasks". As the religion's chief cult divinity he came to be perceived as its divine priest. In Yasna 9.26, Ahura