I found a thing. It's called "nepenthe" and it's a brew mentioned in the Odyssey that gives drugged sleep or removes sorrows. Maybe it was real, and maybe it could have been poppy pods in wine, possibly with added nightshade plants. That would make a brew that could give ancient world midwives the ability to give pain relief.
I also found 8 different languages that used a similar word for poppy. I started with Hungarian, and put all the neighboring languages into Google Translate. But Hungarian is not related to the neighbors. These are languages from very different language families.
Arabic was interesting. I got three words for poppy. One word turned out to be "anesthetic" - part of the Arabic words for poppy. And it was the part most similar to everybody else / the part that sounds like the name of the goddess Mokosh.
So if Mokosh is the poppy, and Demeter is the corn/grain, who is the third goddess? I expect to find 3 big name goddesses linked to the 3 Fates. Maybe.
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