MYRRH, SOLAR INCENSE
Egypt, perfume and Humanity
It was often combined with other plants such as cinnamon, honey and sandalwood.
Sandalwood - India Image source: visoterra.com |
red sandalwood |
cinnamon Image source: institut-ibuki.fr |
Bee sacred work |
Others speak of juniper of thérébinthe (pistachio).
Juniper (Juniperus communis) |
Pistacia terebinthus - the "oak" only mediterranean basin image source: wikipedia |
Young fruit of Elah - image source wikipedia |
This plant companionship gave rise to Kyphi perfume "solid" ancient Egypt.
Egyptians anointed and disseminated these "bold flavors," also carry significant healing abilities.
In the magazine "Archeologia" No. 390, page 27 we read:
(the highlighting is my doing).
"Kephis was made Mendes, a city in the delta. Famous throughout the Middle East, it was exported to Rome and his name" the Egyptian "became synonymous with perfume. Walls temples of Edfu and Philae kept the inscriptions including the famous recipes Kyphi used mainly as its name indicates fumigations by priests honoring the gods. Mixed with drinks, he became a cure against the lung, liver, intestinal ... The ancient writers who mention: Dioscorides, Plutarch, Galen does not agree on the number of ingredients but it seems like juniper, oak, broom, cane, myrrh, wine, honey constituted the basis.
These precious liquid especially for secular uses, were often kept in small glass vials or balsamarium.
image source: archeologia No. 390 |
To better understand the capture of fragrances dedicated to the gods, still read:
"Perfumes, the major assets of seduction, were also needed in the worship gods . L Egypt, famous for its perfumes based on extracts of flower: lotus, lilies, henna, ... jasmine, knew the art of distillation and alcohol. These are fats that were used excipient. Many oils were used, sesame, linseed, castor, almond, olive attested from the eighteenth dynasty and moringa. nuts this shrub desert areas give a low viscosity oil which does not go rancid. A large jar of alabaster (Musée du Louvre) is still in hieratic half erased the name of its contents: moringa oil and its source, Syria.
The enfleurage seems to have been the basis of the manufacturing technique. The enfleurage cold was to chop, crush, crushing the flowers, stems, rhizomes or fruits freshly picked herbs. Then, by pressing through fine linen, we expressed the juice. Once settled, it was mixed with oil supplemented with different ingredients: minerals, wine ... the famous water lily still very popular today in Egypt and was fabricated. For enfleurage the mixture prior to hot, oil, plants, resins and gums macerated whole, was cooked and then filtered.
image source: archeologia No. 390 |
Thus, attention to oneself Egypt is equivalent to the essential understanding that eludes us today: the body is the temple of the soul . It must therefore be kept beautiful, young, well balanced and healthy because then waits for the trip across the visible to the world of Osiris.
Below care brought to the hair.
image source: Archaeology No. 390 |
Thus the cult of Ra, Amon-Ra , wrapped in strong fragrance, which many believed in ancient times, and rightly, as "magical." Their healing and strength of fragrance released spoke as much to the mind and body of flesh.
The Myrrh , particularly known for its purifying qualities and combative, is also used to cleanse the Temple of the Great God of Sun intrusion evil, any miasma that egregores lay still. The temples, both living areas and studies, prayer and devotion, could still, sometimes harboring unwanted scents.
Moreover, by its sun-yellow saffron, myrrh spoke immediately to the eye, and therefore in the eyes of the soul. A recollection almost instantaneous evident then.
Why? Myrrh evokes the color of gold. The gold which is made flesh of the gods.
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