Ealuþ and Ascension

Ealuþ is a popular beverage served in Heimland. It's a strong type of alcoholic beer. Its main ingredients are cereal grains, malted barley, wheat, maize, millet, sorghum, cassava, corn, rice, apple-juice, pear pulp, pineapple seeds, banana peels, plum skins, dried prunes, elmer's glue and rootbeer powder (extracted from Hossmen). The beverage accelerates various neural and organ functions, which invokes the feeling of the world happening in slow motion, increasing awareness and clearing the mind at the possible expense of a substantially accelerated heart rate and an increased force of each contraction that could potentially rupture vessels throughout the body, thinning the blood and dilating the eyes (especially the blood-vessels in the cornea) to the point that they begin to leak blood, causing your vision to redden and blur as it coats the lens. Ealuþ is often considered the "drink of death", and is sometimes used in Thalaikoothal.
Ealuþ also plays an important role in the process of Ascension, a ritual practiced by Kristyan Ogs. The process of Ascension is as follows: when an Og has reached a certain age (about 75-80 years of age) he will subsist on a diet of nuts, berries and seeds for three years, eating nothing else. He will also undertake physical exercises to eliminate all fat from his body. Over the next three years he will consume a diet of tree-bark and roots before consuming a lethal amount of Ealuþ that will cause him to have an allergic reaction and vomit frequently to bring about rapid fluid loss. The internal drying of his body acts as natural preservation, and the increased toxicity of the Ealuþ in his skin will prevent maggots from getting to his remains. After six years of this extreme hardship the Og will lock himself in an unimaginably small stone sarcophagus with no room for movement. A thin air-tube will allow him to breath and meditate until he eventually dies. Each day the Og would have rung a tiny silver bell to show the ones on the outside that he was alive. Once the bell stopped ringing, the sarcophagus would be sealed for mummification. The body will be left for days near a low fire to completely dry the remains. Then the mummified body is rubbed with salt and placed inside a cement statue custom-built to his size. This statue is placed outside the religious place of worship, and devotees may bring a cup of Ealuþ to the statue every day as a sign of gratitude.