Both drinks were offered to the gods. Another comparable god in the pantheon was Mithra (Iranian) or his Vedic counterpart Mitra. According to Eberhard Sauer in ‘Mithras and Mithraism ...

Does the story of Jesus Christ steal from the historical pagan gods such as Mithra, Dionysus, Horus, and Krishna? Several books have been written that have insisted to have evidence of such claims.