With the emergence of early states, feasting takes on yet grander scales of consumption, sacrifices, pomp, and ceremony. Due to the emergence of writing in tandem with some early states, we also have the first written accounts of feasting from ancient times. In cases such as the Linear B inscriptions on Crete, these accounts are often simple records of the amount of beer, barley, sheep, goats, and other foods being requisitioned, or, in the case of the Shang oracle bones, the human sacrifices being made. However, they also include poetic descriptions of gods like Inanna and Enki having intimate feasts of beer and butter cakes that undoubtedly reflect similar feasts of the Sumerian elites. The early Shang verses also depict worshippers offering ancestors wine, soup, and the first fruits from the paddies: