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Tiswin is an alcoholic beverage brewed from corn. Tiswin is also the sacred saguaro wine of the Tohono O'odham, a group of aboriginal Americans who reside primarily in the Sonoran Desert of the southeastern Arizona and northwest Mexico.
The saguaro, the largest cactus in the world, is in many respects the sacred tree of the Tohono O'odham, who reside in the Sonoran Desert of southeastern Arizona and northwest Mexico. From the fruit of the saguaro they make a sacred fermentation called tiswin or sometimes nawai.
Usage examples of "tiswin".
None were sorry to see them go, and the feast grew more lively for their absence: tiswin flowed in renewed abundance and, as if the cloud were blown away to reveal the sun, the camp rang loud with laughter and bawdy songs.
Less, were he honest, in search of enlightenment than from the desire to sweat out the tiswin, that his head be entirely clear for the talks to come.
Stone Folk, Morrhyn thought as the cup was refilled, downed tiswin even faster than Yazte, but it seemed to them no more than water.
And when he drank this time it was as though he needed the tiswin to fortify his tongue against the telling.
He did not taste the tiswin, only the heat spilling through the void inside him.
Lhyn met her son with a smile, embracing him and Arrhyna, then the two women busied themselves at the fire as Colun reached for the tiswin and began to pour.
I came down to the Meeting Ground all prideful in my newfound status and drank your fine tiswin and, I am ashamed to say, took more than I could then manage.
Arrhyna told him the tiswin should not be ready until at least the Frozen Grass Moon, or even later.
She anticipated Colun asking after his promised tiswin, but the creddan made no mention of the brew and that disturbed her further.
Inside, he gestured them to settle on the spread furs and offered tiswin as Hazhe closed the lodge-flap.
Yazte gestured irritably, splashing tiswin unnoticed over his breeches.
Lhyn set a cup of warm tiswin in his hand, and smiled as Racharran himself draped a blanket around his shoulders and asked what news.
It was her intention to remain awake, to watch over Arcole, but food and tiswin and the comforting knowledge they were safe combined with weariness to betray her: she hardly knew her eyes closed before she slept.
Lhyn met her son with a smile, embracing him and Arrhyna, then the two women busied them-selves at the fire as Colun reached for the tiswin and began to pour.
Down below, the fire was blazing cheerfully and the boys around it were passing the tequila, mescal, pulque, tiswin, or whatever kind of cactus juice it was they had in the jug.