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Cannabis and Frankincense at the Judahite Shrine of Arad
Author : Petiver
Score : 81 points
Date : 2020-06-02 04:15 UTC (18 hours ago)
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| microtherion wrote:
| I picture the ceremonies being accompanied by chants about being
| "iron like a lion in Zion".
| dr_dshiv wrote:
| Smoking cannabis in pipes occurred only after Columbus and the
| import of tobacco. I find that a little shocking, especially in
| India, where cannabis has religious value. Archeological work is
| sadly very rare in India... But if anyone finds an older chillum
| pipe, it will be a major discovery.
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_in_India
| sammalloy wrote:
| I believe the use of cannabis in this particular ritual is
| referred to as the ancient practice of suffumigation. This
| practice goes fairly far back in the literature.
|
| > Suffumigation, by definition, means "to fumigate from below."
| This practice involves herbal incenses burned for magical
| purposes and is used in Ceremonial Magic to attract certain
| spirits. When an object is consecrated, it is held in the smoke
| of the incense, thus suffumigating it.
|
| (The Witch Book: The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft, Wicca, and
| Neo-paganism)
| SN76477 wrote:
| I always felt that the burning of incense had to cannabis.
|
| Burning a half lb bundle in a medium sized room of even low
| quality cannabis would feel like a spiritual moment.
| Talanes wrote:
| There's one reading of the recipe for Holy Anointing Oil that
| includes Cannabis, making the result basically a topical weed
| oil.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_anointing_oil
| jdminhbg wrote:
| According to the paper, it would have been imported as hash
| instead:
|
| > In fact, no cannabis seeds or pollen remains are known from
| archaeological contexts in the Ancient Near East, as opposed to
| northeast China or southeast Russia, where all parts of the
| cannabis plant and seed were found at different archaeological
| sites and contexts and were dated as early as 2000 BCE (Jiang
| et al. 2016; Russo et al. 2008; Russo 2014). Therefore, we
| suggest that cannabis female inflorescences may have been
| imported from distant origins and were transported as dried
| resin (commonly known as hashish).
| tezza wrote:
| I didn't realise "The History of the World, Part 1" was actually
| a documentary.
| pugworthy wrote:
| The concept of rolling papyrus is perhaps not so far off then.
| pixxel wrote:
| > Two limestone monoliths, interpreted as altars, were found in
| the Judahite shrine at Tel Arad. Unidentified dark material
| preserved on their upper surfaces was submitted for organic
| residue analysis at two unrelated laboratories that used similar
| established extraction methods. On the smaller altar, residues of
| cannabinoids such as D9-teterahydrocannabinol (THC), cannabidiol
| (CBD) and cannabinol (CBN) were detected, along with an
| assortment of terpenes and terpenoids, suggesting that cannabis
| inflorescences had been burnt on it. Organic residues attributed
| to animal dung were also found, suggesting that the cannabis
| resin had been mixed with dung to enable mild heating. The larger
| altar contained an assemblage of indicative triterpenes such as
| boswellic acid and norursatriene, which derives from
| frankincense. The additional presence of animal fat--in related
| compounds such as testosterone, androstene and cholesterol--
| suggests that resin was mixed with it to facilitate evaporation.
| These well-preserved residues shed new light on the use of 8th
| century Arad altars and on incense offerings in Judah during the
| Iron Age.
| itslikethat wrote:
| Danny Nemu has an interesting paper on entheogens in the Old
| Testament.
|
| https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2054/3/Special-Issue/ar...
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| And a lighter article looking at Frankincense in particular.
|
| http://psypressuk.com/2016/12/22/three-kings-orient-drug-run...
| dr_dshiv wrote:
| From The Histories of Herodotus (d.424 BC):
|
| "Hemp grows in Scythia: it is very like flax; only that it is a
| much coarser and taller plant: some grows wild about the country,
| some is produced by cultivation: the Thracians make garments of
| it which closely resemble linen; so much so, indeed, that if a
| person has never seen hemp he is sure to think they are linen,
| and if he has, unless he is very experienced in such matters, he
| will not know of which material they are. The Scythians, as I
| said, take some of this hemp-seed, and, creeping under the felt
| coverings, throw it upon the red-hot stones; immediately it
| smokes, and gives out such a vapour as no Grecian vapour-bath can
| exceed; the Scyths, delighted, shout for joy"
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