Ambrosia Ambrosia In the ancient Greek myths, ambrosia (, ) is sometimes the food or drink of the Greek gods, often depicted as conferring longevity or immortality upon whoever consumed it. It was brought to the gods in Olympus by doves. "Ambrosia" is sometimes depicted in ancient art as distributed by a nymph labeled with that name. In the myth of Lycurgus, an opponent to the wine god Dionysus, violence committed against Ambrosia turns her into a grapevine. Ambrosia is very closely related to the gods' other form of sustenance, "nectar". The two terms may not have originally been distinguished; though
Magicians of the Gods Magicians of the Gods Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilisation is a 2015 book by British pseudoarchaeology writer Graham Hancock. It is published by Thomas Dunne Books in the United States and Coronet in the United Kingdom. An "updated and expanded" paperback edition was released in 2017. A sequel to Hancock's "Fingerprints of the Gods" (1995), the book is based on the premise that there was a highly advanced "lost civilisation" in prehistory that was destroyed in a global catastrophe. In "Magicians of the Gods", Hancock seeks an explanation for this catastrophe in the controversial