Feb 10, 2025
Another Taboo among the Aztecs
“The Aztecs regarded pulque or the wine of the country as bad, on account of the wild deeds which men did under its influence. But these wild deeds were believed to be the acts, not of the drunken man, but of the wine-god by whom he was possessed and inspired; and so seriously was this theory of inspiration held that if any one spoke ill of or insulted a tipsy man, he was liable to be punished for disrespect to the wine-god incarnate in his votary."
—J. G. Frazer, Taboo & the Perils of the Soul (The Golden Bough, vol. III, 1914, p. 249)
Ometochtli, one of the gods associated with the imbibing of pulque.
(Source: Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
