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this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2024
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I didn't hear about Greek gods consuming amber, only ambrosia and nectar. Translation/language issue perhaps? There is no explanation for what thing ambrosia is as far as I know. I've always imagined it as something that looks like crystalline pumpkin preserve or something, possibly because the word ambrosia does remind me a lot of amber though.
It's coincidental - the word "amber" backtracks to Middle Persian 'nbl (anbal) getting borrowed into Arabic as عَنْبَر (ʕanbar), then finding its Mediaeval Latin as ambar, then Middle French as ambre, then English. Initially it referred only to ambergris (the whale stuff, aka "grey amber"), but eventually people started using the word to refer to the resinous tree substance ("yellow amber") too.
Yeah but it doesn't share its root with ambrosia.
Yup, it doesn't.
Yeah sorry I noticed too late that you weren't suggesting they did. Some days I'll argue even the date, I need to touch more grass.
No worries! This sort of stuff happens. (Blame Godzilla!)
Plus you added a lot of info to the discussion.
Fixed it, blepped lol