Tentenshu - Amanotamusake

...It is believed that the Sumerians were already making beer in Mesopotamia around 4000 BCE, and the Hamitic tribes who brewed beer in Egypt around 3000 BCE believed that Osiris, the god of grains, had taught them to make beer. In China, it is said that Du Kang, the governor of the Yellow Emperor's reign, and Yi Di, the governor of King Yu's reign, were the first to make alcohol, and in Japan, Princess Konohana Sakuya is said to have made sweet wine from rice grown in Sanada. Alcohol is a characteristic product of agricultural culture, and is used in the numerous magical and religious ceremonies associated with farming, and the god of agriculture is often also the god of alcohol. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "Tentenshu" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…メソポタミアでは前4000年ころすでにシュメール人がビールをつくっていたと推定され，エジプトで前3000年ころビールを醸造していたハム語系の諸族は，五穀の神オシリスがビールを教えたと信じていた。中国では黄帝（こうてい）のときの宰人杜康が，また禹王（うおう）のとき儀狄（ぎてき）がはじめて酒をつくったといい，日本では木花開耶姫（このはなのさくやびめ）が狭名田（さなだ）の稲で天甜酒（あまのたむさけ）をつくったという。酒は農耕文化の特徴的な産物であり，農作に伴うかずかずの呪術（じゆじゆつ）的，宗教的儀礼に用いられ，農業神が酒神を兼ねることが多い。…

※「天甜酒」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典｜株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第２版について | 情報