Milk

There was said to be a cave in Bethlehem where the Virgin Mary had nursed Jesus and spilled a drop of milk. Women who were barren or could not produce milk went there for help.

The Fulani people of West Africa believe that the world started with a huge drop of milk from which everything else was created

If you are not capable of a bit of alchemy, don’t bother going into the kitchen.

—COLETTE

Before sugar cane and beet sugar became ubiquitous, honey was the number one sweet available. Milk was a close second,

Northern seals also have to acquire fat quickly; a gray seal’s milk is 53.2 percent fat

whale milk is 34.8 percent fat, as opposed to human milk, which is only 4.5 percent fat. Northern

Isis, the Egyptian goddess of motherhood, giver of life, was often shown breastfeeding a pharaoh, while Osiris, her husband, was celebrated for pouring out bowls of milk, one for each day of the year. Isis

the Milky Way was formed when Hera, the Greek goddess of womanhood, spilled milk while breastfeeding Heracles, known to the Romans as Hercules. Each drop became a speck of light, known to us as a star. And Hera must have spilled a lot of milk, because modern astronomers estimate that there are 400 billion stars in the galaxy.

aberrant condition is being able to drink milk.