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Chickpeas of the Gods

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On the Hummus Route
On the Hummus Route

By Ariel Rosenthal, Orly Peli-Bronshtein and Dan Alexander

Published 2019

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Rare black chickpeas of Aupulia
Black chickpeas, or Venus chickpeas as Pliny called them, were offered to the Goddess of Love and Beauty, and eaten in festive orgiastic rituals as an aphrodisiac.

Galen, in his book On the Properties of Food Stuffs, lists the empowering properties attributed specifically to black chickpeas. In ancient times, chickpeas were also called rams, because of their seed shape, which resembles a ram’s head.

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