Everything about Minthe totally explained
In
Greek mythology,
Minthe (also
Menthe,
Mentha,
Mintho;
Greek: Μένθη) was a
naiad associated with the river
Cocytus. She was dazzled by Hades' golden chariot and was about to be seduced by him hadn't Queen
Persephone intervened and metamorphosed Minthe into the pungently sweet-smelling
mint, which some call
hedyosmus. The
–nth– element in
menthe is characteristic of a class of words borrowed from a pre-Greek language: compare
acanthus,
labyrinth,
Corinth, etc.
In ancient Greece, mint was used in funerary rites, together with
rosemary and
myrtle, and not simply to offset the smell of decay; mint was an element in the fermented
barley drink called the
kykeon that was an essential preparatory
entheogen for participants in the
Eleusinian mysteries, which offered hope in the
afterlife for initiates (Kerenyi 1967).
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