Excessive drinking was not approved of. This was Seth’s specialty: when he made up his mind to drink, nothing could stop him. Moreover, his name can be easily translated into “Setekh,” which means “the inebriated.”
Hathor…was also not known not to despise drink. Because a state of mild intoxication allowed her devotees to commune with her, they did not hesitate to add tiny quantities of narcotic substances to their beverages.
…Horus the warrior, for his part, preferred a drink made by squeezing the juice of grapes into water. It had the virtue of quenching ones thirst without going to one’s head, gave one courage in combat, and killed pain.