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DdC · 06-25-2003, 03:35 PM

Archeology is archeology, theriology is theriology.
The ship sails were cannabis canvas,
the burlap sackcloth and ropes and riggings.
Carpets and Tapestry, tents, "tow"els and those famous fishnets.
Morter from the hurds and feed for the animals.
The seeds are still gruel, and as nutritious.
The flowers were used by everyone in the region.
And since none of its mentioned, it must have been censored.
The same as American schools and media.
The covered wagons or canvas for portraits.
The army tents, backpacks, uniforms and leggings.
The medicine still rolled into joints by the government.
Denied and avoided and then pray it goes away.
More abortions from the chemicals used to eradicate it,
and used in competition to it than Roe v Wade.
While $7 - 10 billion is diverted from safety nets to arrest Ganja users.
Money going into the same pockets perpetuating this hideous Ganjawar.
Including the church, always in concordence.
I'd say he most definately inhaled...
Peace, Love and Liberty or DEAth
DdC

In Hebrew the word for hash also means incense...

Alter-Nativity
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<a href="http://www.cannabis.net/thc" target="_blank">THE NECTAR OF DELIGHT</a>

he Indian vadas sang of Cannabis as one of the divine nectars, able to give man anything from good health and long life to visions of the gods. The Zend-Avesta of 600 B.C. mentions an intoxicating resin, and the Assyrians used Cannabis as an incense as early as the ninth century B.C..

Knowledge and use of the intoxicating properties eventually spread to Asia Minor. Hemp was employed as an incense in Assyria in the first millennium B.C., suggesting its use as an inebriant.

Folklore maintians that the use of Hemp was introduced to Persia during the reign of Khursu (A.D. 531-579), but it is known that the Assyrians used Hemp as an incense during the first millennium B.C..

The Emperor Wears No Clothes
<a href="http://www.jackherer.com/book/ch10.html" target="_blank">Chap ter 10 Myth, Magic & Medicine</a> :
A Look at the Sociology of Cannabis Use Throughout World History

Contrary to popular conception, "marijuana" is not a phenomenon rooted in the 1960s. Cannabis hemp is part of our heritage and was the backbone of our most stable and longest surviving cultures. Recent psycho-pharmacological studies have discovered THC has its own unique receptor sites in the brain, indicating man and marijuana have a pre-cultural relationship indeed, human culture could very well prove to be the blossom of our symbiosis with cannabis.
The Mystic Philosophers
Cannabis legend and consumption are fundamental aspects of many of the world's great religions.

<a href="http://www.geocities.com/happy_hempster/phil/refrences.htm" target="_blank">Enth ogentic Works</a>
In Hebrew the word for hash also means incense...

Incense, cannibas, is the communion by fire spoken of in the Bible. Fire is inspiration, and hemp is the incense that brings us closer to GOD.

Hemp Throughout Holy Texts
In the begining, God created all seed producing plants, and they were good. The law reconized their goodness, and made them illegal. After Adam ate the apple, he offered incense to the Lord to try and appease him. Moses met GOD in clouds of smoke, it reeked of incense, and the Almighty was aflame. The herb was no doubt at the table of Jesus, and the wine he created was and is more harmful than hemp. Mohammed ate hash and spoke with GOD. The ancient Incas called it "that which makes us speak" and, when drug tested, T.H.C. was found in Pharoe's system. Hemp is not GOD, it is his gift, and it inspires thought, prayer, and medition. Thought is dangerous, and thus, hemp is illegal.

<a href="http://www.cannabisculture. com/backissues/cc11/christ.html" target="_blank">Cann abis and The Christ</a>
Hash is a vital ingrediant in Catholic holy annoiting oil

Book: HASHISH!
Robert Connell Clarke
investigates natural processes, both ancient and modern, for the growth, collection, and purification of Cannabis resin glands, the plant parts that contain the psychoactive constituents in hashish.
Incense Makers ... 51
Part I, Hashish History
, speculates on the prehistoric discovery of the euphoric properties of Cannabis , then surveys the history of hashish from ancient times up to about 1850.

<a href="http://www.hempbc.com/magazine/apr95/smoke_in_my_i.html" target="_blank">When Smoke Gets In My I By Chris Bennet</a>

The First Cultivated Crop

Ancient and modern historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and philologists all agree that cannabis is one of mankind's oldest cultivated crops. The weaving of hemp fibre began 10,000 years ago, at approximately the same time as pottery making and prior to metal working.1

Not surprisingly, records of the use of cannabis as both a drink and an incense can be traced back to some of the earliest civilizations and cultures, as we shall see with a look at cannabis incense in the Ancient World.
The Encyclopedia Britannica makes the following comments about the use of incense in religious ritual: ...the ceremonial use of incense in contemporary ritual is most likely a relic of the time when the psychoactive properties of incense brought the ancient worshipper into touch with supernatural forces.15

Lacking the invention of pipes for smoking marijuana, the ancients would burn dried hemp on enclosed alters and inhale the fumes. Or they would make hashish by rubbing their hands on sticky cannabis tops, and collecting the resin for pressing into balls of incense, sometimes with other fragrant plants.

Cannabis as an incense was... used in the Temples of Assyria and Babylon `because its aroma was pleasing to the gods.'18

It is said that the Assyrians used hemp as incense in the seventh and eighth century before Christ and called it `Qunubu', a term apparently borrowed from an old East Iranian word `Konaba'. the same as the Scythian name `cannabis'.19

Unpleasant Thoughts

This information clearly documents the use of cannabis incense to the very beginnings of recorded history, and shows that it could well have played a pivotal role in the development of the wonderful mind that so many of today's people take for granted and don't use. You need only look
around at the sorry state of our once pristine planet to see that most modern people have lost the ability to think for themselves, and are more than willing to be led around by despicable leaders, and work their lives away in the name of consumerism.

1.Columbia History of the World; Harper & Rowe, NY, 1981
15.Encyclopedia Brittanica; 15th edition, "Pharmacological Cults", 1978
18.Cannabis and Culture; Sula Benet, edited by Vera Rubin, The Hague: Moutan, 1975
19.Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred Healing and Hallucinogenic Powers; Richards Evans Schultes & Albert Hoffman, Healing Arts Press, Vermont, 1992

<a href="http://www.hempbc.com/magazine/mayjune96/kanehbosm.html" target="_blank">Kane h Bosm: Cannabis in the Old Testament</a>

The word cannabis was generally thought to be of Scythian origin, but Benet showed that it has a much earlier origin in Semitic languages like Hebrew, and that it appears several times throughout the Old Testament. Benet explained that "in the original Hebrew text of the Old Testament there are references to hemp, both as incense, which was an integral part of religious celebration, and as an intoxicant (2)."

The shamanistic Ashera priestesses of pre-reformation Jerusalem mixed cannabis resins with those from myrrh, balsam, frankincense, and perfumes, and then anointed their skins with the mixture as well as burned it (6).

Moses and his priests burned incense and used the holy ointment in a portable 'tent of meeting', the famous Tent of the Tabernacle. As cannabis is listed directly as an incense later in the Bible, it seems likely that Moses and the Levite priesthood would have burned cannabis flowers and pollen along with the ointment and incense which God commanded them to make.

2 All quotations from Sula Benet in this article are taken from Early Diffusions and Folk Uses of Hemp, reprinted in Cannabis and Culture, Vera Rubin, Ed. (back)
6 William A.Emboden Jr., Ritual Use of Cannabis Sativa L.: A Historic-Ethnographic Survey, printed in Flesh of the Gods, edited by P.T.Furst, published by Praeger in 1972. (back)

<a href="http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/keary420/myhomepage" target="_blank">hemp and the bible</a>

<a href="http://www.princekollie.com/HEALING.html" target="_blank">The Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church</a>

According to "Licit and Illicit Drugs" by the Consumer Union, page 397-398:
"Ashurbanipal lived about 650 B.C., but the cuneiform descriptions of marijuana in his library "are generally regarded as obvious copies of much older texts." Says Dr. Robert P. Walton, an American physician and authority on marijuana, "This evidence serves to project the origin of hashish back to the earliest beginnings of history."

<a href="http://nefertiti.iwebland.c om/timelines/topics/medicine.htm" target="_blank">Anci ent Egyptian medicine: In Sickness and in Health</a>

Some of the medicines were made from plant materials imported from abroad. Frankincense, containing tetrahydrocannabinol and used like hashish as painkiller, was imported from Punt.

<a href="http://www.iamm.com/man-cu.htm#INCENSE" target="_blank">THE INCENSE OF THE SAINTS</a>

Both the Gnostic and Book of Revelation references to the incense mention it being related to the Saints, possibly indicating those who used the holy incense felt it provided them with some sort of kinship with those members of their faith who had used it before them in a similar spirit. In some mysterious and subtle way, when we burn cannabis with a certain spiritual focus and specific symbols in mind, we are able to tap into a memory that goes far beyond our personal experience.

In relation to this it is interesting to note the words of Dr Robert de Ropp, who wrote of an initiate1s experience with cannabis that "unlocked the doors of memory, a memory that can be as impersonal as the memory of the race, linking him to the great patterns of living forms, green plants and fungi, invertebrates and vertebrates. Against so expansive a back ground personal memories appeared trivial"(de Ropp 1968). De Ropp considered cannabis sacred (de Ropp, 1974), and had a keen interest in Gnostic scriptures (de Ropp, 1988). Similarly, Shaivite scholar Alain Danielou wrote that “Some plants are, by their very nature, connected with what are called spirits or gods. They embody certain aspects of the divine [and] serve as a means of contact [with it]” (Danielou, 1984/92). The same sensibility is reflected Dr Rupert Sheldrake’s profound new scientific model, “Morphic Resonance,” which describes the human DNA molecule as being a receiver for the “human being signal,” which contains not only the necessary genetic information needed for the creation and maintenance of the material body but also contains a record of all accumulated human knowledge and experience (Sheldrake 1984).

Sheldrake goes onto suggest, using the psilocybin mushroom as an example, that the previous users of such a substance may have left a resonance in the morphic field surrounding its vibration that could be tuned into by later users. When one considers the extensive religious use of cannabis throughout the ages by a variety of cultures, and the modern Renaissance surrounding the plant, Sheldrake1s theory becomes more than plausible.

CANNABIS AS TRUE RELIGION

Cannabis is a true religion, springing from the instinctual recognition of cannabis as sacrament, as the Tree of Life. Consider the case of the African Bashilenge, who after becoming acquainted with cannabis sometime during the nineteenth century, began using it sacramentally, and convinced other tribes to join them in their sacred smoke. This Holy communion lead them to put away their weapons, and rename their land 3Lubuku2, meaning “Friendship”, greeting "each other with the expression 'Moio', meaning both 'hemp' and 'life'"(Benet 1975). Consider the Rastafarian movement in Jamaica, where independently, black descendants of slaves who had began using marijuana likely from an influence of Indian migrant workers, intuitively began to apply its use to a Biblical tradition, long acknowledging the sacred plant as the Tree of Life, and 'burning bush', sharing it as a Eucharist in a chillum-Chalice in order to awaken the "I" spirit that is common in us all.

<a href="http://www.cannabisculture. com/backissues/jul95/scythians.html" target="_blank">The Scythians High Plains Drifters</a>
The sorcerers of these Thracian tribes were known to have burned female cannabis flowers (and other psychoactive plants) as a mystical incense to induce trances. Their special talents were attributed to the "magical heat" produced from burning the cannabis and other herbs, believing that the plants dissolved in the flames, then reassembled themselves inside the person who inhaled the vapors.

It could well be that in later times the cannabis smoke had somewhat mellowed the Scythians, and their spiritual leaders directed them towards becoming a more civilized people. The ancient Greek historian Ephorus wrote in the fourth century BC that the Scythians 'feed on mares milk and excel all men in justice'. His comments were followed in the first century BC by Strabo, who wrote that 'we regard the Scythians as the most just of men and the least prone to mischief, as also far more
frugal and independent of others than we are.'

<a href="http://www.room23.de/hotspot_1523-Sumach.html" target="_blank">The Scythian Queens</a>

Like the Scythian shamans, the Thracians used cannabis in a similar manner. Dr Sumach explains in A Treasury of Hashish that: The sorcerers of these Thracian tribes were known to have burned female cannabis flowers (and other psychoactive plants) as a mystical incense to induce trances. Their special talents were attributed to the "magical heat" produced from burning the cannabis and other herbs, believing that the plants dissolved in the flames, then reassembled themselves inside the person who inhaled the vapors.

<a href="http://surrealist.org/prayforpeace/1997b.html" target="_blank">Mari juana: Shamanic Tool of Ancient Cultures</a>
Lord Balarama & Ganja

Worshipers of Shiva traditionally offer their ganja to Shiva before smoking, but what about followers of Krishna? Krishna generally does not accept ganja offerings, although He clearly states that He is the healing essence of all herbs. In ancient India, the temple incense was infused with hashish so worshipers could inhale the sacred smoke and experience love of God. Although hash incense is no longer available, Krishna worshipers offer ganja smoke to Krishna's brother, Balarama, and receive the Lord's blessings.

Mantra for offering ganja to Balarama: Baladev Baladev Hara Hara Ganja.

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INCENSE FOR BAST
6 parts marijuana buds, marijuana leaves, skunk or hashish - use legal hemp for rope making.
4 parts frankincense 3 parts acacai gum 2 parts myrrh 1 part catnip
1 part cedar wood shavings 1 part cinnamon 1/2 part juniper berries
2 drops civet oil - use musk if you cannot get it.
Grind up with mortar and pestle or coffee grinder and store in airtight container.

<a href="http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/100/201/300/ejmas/kronos/2000/NewHist0000-0499.htm" target="_blank">kron os history 0000-0499 About 685 BCE</a>

An Assyrian letter writer describes the hallucinogenic properties of kunubu, or orally ingested hashish. The Greek translation of this term subsequently provides the basis for the English word "cannabis."

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DdC Decade Yahookan Join Date: Feb 1999 Location: Santa Cruz,CA,USA Posts: 2,088 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 47 Thanked 570 Times in 378 Posts	Ancient Temple Hashish Incense! Did Jesus Inhale? Archeology is archeology, theriology is theriology. The ship sails were cannabis canvas, the burlap sackcloth and ropes and riggings. Carpets and Tapestry, tents, "tow"els and those famous fishnets. Morter from the hurds and feed for the animals. The seeds are still gruel, and as nutritious. The flowers were used by everyone in the region. And since none of its mentioned, it must have been censored. The same as American schools and media. The covered wagons or canvas for portraits. The army tents, backpacks, uniforms and leggings. The medicine still rolled into joints by the government. Denied and avoided and then pray it goes away. More abortions from the chemicals used to eradicate it, and used in competition to it than Roe v Wade. While $7 - 10 billion is diverted from safety nets to arrest Ganja users. Money going into the same pockets perpetuating this hideous Ganjawar. Including the church, always in concordence. I'd say he most definately inhaled... Peace, Love and Liberty or DEAth DdC In Hebrew the word for hash also means incense... Alter-Nativity <a href="http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/politics/media/39/39261.gif" target="_blank">http ://boards.marihemp.com/boards/politics/media/39/39261.gif</A> <a href="http://www.cannabis.net/thc" target="_blank">THE NECTAR OF DELIGHT</a> he Indian vadas sang of Cannabis as one of the divine nectars, able to give man anything from good health and long life to visions of the gods. The Zend-Avesta of 600 B.C. mentions an intoxicating resin, and the Assyrians used Cannabis as an incense as early as the ninth century B.C.. Knowledge and use of the intoxicating properties eventually spread to Asia Minor. Hemp was employed as an incense in Assyria in the first millennium B.C., suggesting its use as an inebriant. Folklore maintians that the use of Hemp was introduced to Persia during the reign of Khursu (A.D. 531-579), but it is known that the Assyrians used Hemp as an incense during the first millennium B.C.. The Emperor Wears No Clothes <a href="http://www.jackherer.com/book/ch10.html" target="_blank">Chap ter 10 Myth, Magic & Medicine</a> : A Look at the Sociology of Cannabis Use Throughout World History Contrary to popular conception, "marijuana" is not a phenomenon rooted in the 1960s. Cannabis hemp is part of our heritage and was the backbone of our most stable and longest surviving cultures. Recent psycho-pharmacological studies have discovered THC has its own unique receptor sites in the brain, indicating man and marijuana have a pre-cultural relationship indeed, human culture could very well prove to be the blossom of our symbiosis with cannabis. The Mystic Philosophers Cannabis legend and consumption are fundamental aspects of many of the world's great religions. <a href="http://www.geocities.com/happy_hempster/phil/refrences.htm" target="_blank">Enth ogentic Works</a> In Hebrew the word for hash also means incense... Incense, cannibas, is the communion by fire spoken of in the Bible. Fire is inspiration, and hemp is the incense that brings us closer to GOD. Hemp Throughout Holy Texts In the begining, God created all seed producing plants, and they were good. The law reconized their goodness, and made them illegal. After Adam ate the apple, he offered incense to the Lord to try and appease him. Moses met GOD in clouds of smoke, it reeked of incense, and the Almighty was aflame. The herb was no doubt at the table of Jesus, and the wine he created was and is more harmful than hemp. Mohammed ate hash and spoke with GOD. The ancient Incas called it "that which makes us speak" and, when drug tested, T.H.C. was found in Pharoe's system. Hemp is not GOD, it is his gift, and it inspires thought, prayer, and medition. Thought is dangerous, and thus, hemp is illegal. <a href="http://www.cannabisculture. com/backissues/cc11/christ.html" target="_blank">Cann abis and The Christ</a> Hash is a vital ingrediant in Catholic holy annoiting oil Book: HASHISH! Robert Connell Clarke investigates natural processes, both ancient and modern, for the growth, collection, and purification of Cannabis resin glands, the plant parts that contain the psychoactive constituents in hashish. Incense Makers ... 51 Part I, Hashish History , speculates on the prehistoric discovery of the euphoric properties of Cannabis , then surveys the history of hashish from ancient times up to about 1850. <a href="http://www.hempbc.com/magazine/apr95/smoke_in_my_i.html" target="_blank">When Smoke Gets In My I By Chris Bennet</a> The First Cultivated Crop Ancient and modern historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and philologists all agree that cannabis is one of mankind's oldest cultivated crops. The weaving of hemp fibre began 10,000 years ago, at approximately the same time as pottery making and prior to metal working.1 Not surprisingly, records of the use of cannabis as both a drink and an incense can be traced back to some of the earliest civilizations and cultures, as we shall see with a look at cannabis incense in the Ancient World. The Encyclopedia Britannica makes the following comments about the use of incense in religious ritual: ...the ceremonial use of incense in contemporary ritual is most likely a relic of the time when the psychoactive properties of incense brought the ancient worshipper into touch with supernatural forces.15 Lacking the invention of pipes for smoking marijuana, the ancients would burn dried hemp on enclosed alters and inhale the fumes. Or they would make hashish by rubbing their hands on sticky cannabis tops, and collecting the resin for pressing into balls of incense, sometimes with other fragrant plants. Cannabis as an incense was... used in the Temples of Assyria and Babylon `because its aroma was pleasing to the gods.'18 It is said that the Assyrians used hemp as incense in the seventh and eighth century before Christ and called it `Qunubu', a term apparently borrowed from an old East Iranian word `Konaba'. the same as the Scythian name `cannabis'.19 Unpleasant Thoughts This information clearly documents the use of cannabis incense to the very beginnings of recorded history, and shows that it could well have played a pivotal role in the development of the wonderful mind that so many of today's people take for granted and don't use. You need only look around at the sorry state of our once pristine planet to see that most modern people have lost the ability to think for themselves, and are more than willing to be led around by despicable leaders, and work their lives away in the name of consumerism. 1.Columbia History of the World; Harper & Rowe, NY, 1981 15.Encyclopedia Brittanica; 15th edition, "Pharmacological Cults", 1978 18.Cannabis and Culture; Sula Benet, edited by Vera Rubin, The Hague: Moutan, 1975 19.Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred Healing and Hallucinogenic Powers; Richards Evans Schultes & Albert Hoffman, Healing Arts Press, Vermont, 1992 <a href="http://www.hempbc.com/magazine/mayjune96/kanehbosm.html" target="_blank">Kane h Bosm: Cannabis in the Old Testament</a> The word cannabis was generally thought to be of Scythian origin, but Benet showed that it has a much earlier origin in Semitic languages like Hebrew, and that it appears several times throughout the Old Testament. Benet explained that "in the original Hebrew text of the Old Testament there are references to hemp, both as incense, which was an integral part of religious celebration, and as an intoxicant (2)." The shamanistic Ashera priestesses of pre-reformation Jerusalem mixed cannabis resins with those from myrrh, balsam, frankincense, and perfumes, and then anointed their skins with the mixture as well as burned it (6). Moses and his priests burned incense and used the holy ointment in a portable 'tent of meeting', the famous Tent of the Tabernacle. As cannabis is listed directly as an incense later in the Bible, it seems likely that Moses and the Levite priesthood would have burned cannabis flowers and pollen along with the ointment and incense which God commanded them to make. 2 All quotations from Sula Benet in this article are taken from Early Diffusions and Folk Uses of Hemp, reprinted in Cannabis and Culture, Vera Rubin, Ed. (back) 6 William A.Emboden Jr., Ritual Use of Cannabis Sativa L.: A Historic-Ethnographic Survey, printed in Flesh of the Gods, edited by P.T.Furst, published by Praeger in 1972. (back) <a href="http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/keary420/myhomepage" target="_blank">hemp and the bible</a> <a href="http://www.princekollie.com/HEALING.html" target="_blank">The Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church</a> According to "Licit and Illicit Drugs" by the Consumer Union, page 397-398: "Ashurbanipal lived about 650 B.C., but the cuneiform descriptions of marijuana in his library "are generally regarded as obvious copies of much older texts." Says Dr. Robert P. Walton, an American physician and authority on marijuana, "This evidence serves to project the origin of hashish back to the earliest beginnings of history." <a href="http://nefertiti.iwebland.c om/timelines/topics/medicine.htm" target="_blank">Anci ent Egyptian medicine: In Sickness and in Health</a> Some of the medicines were made from plant materials imported from abroad. Frankincense, containing tetrahydrocannabinol and used like hashish as painkiller, was imported from Punt. <a href="http://www.iamm.com/man-cu.htm#INCENSE" target="_blank">THE INCENSE OF THE SAINTS</a> Both the Gnostic and Book of Revelation references to the incense mention it being related to the Saints, possibly indicating those who used the holy incense felt it provided them with some sort of kinship with those members of their faith who had used it before them in a similar spirit. In some mysterious and subtle way, when we burn cannabis with a certain spiritual focus and specific symbols in mind, we are able to tap into a memory that goes far beyond our personal experience. In relation to this it is interesting to note the words of Dr Robert de Ropp, who wrote of an initiate1s experience with cannabis that "unlocked the doors of memory, a memory that can be as impersonal as the memory of the race, linking him to the great patterns of living forms, green plants and fungi, invertebrates and vertebrates. Against so expansive a back ground personal memories appeared trivial"(de Ropp 1968). De Ropp considered cannabis sacred (de Ropp, 1974), and had a keen interest in Gnostic scriptures (de Ropp, 1988). Similarly, Shaivite scholar Alain Danielou wrote that “Some plants are, by their very nature, connected with what are called spirits or gods. They embody certain aspects of the divine [and] serve as a means of contact [with it]” (Danielou, 1984/92). The same sensibility is reflected Dr Rupert Sheldrake’s profound new scientific model, “Morphic Resonance,” which describes the human DNA molecule as being a receiver for the “human being signal,” which contains not only the necessary genetic information needed for the creation and maintenance of the material body but also contains a record of all accumulated human knowledge and experience (Sheldrake 1984). Sheldrake goes onto suggest, using the psilocybin mushroom as an example, that the previous users of such a substance may have left a resonance in the morphic field surrounding its vibration that could be tuned into by later users. When one considers the extensive religious use of cannabis throughout the ages by a variety of cultures, and the modern Renaissance surrounding the plant, Sheldrake1s theory becomes more than plausible. CANNABIS AS TRUE RELIGION Cannabis is a true religion, springing from the instinctual recognition of cannabis as sacrament, as the Tree of Life. Consider the case of the African Bashilenge, who after becoming acquainted with cannabis sometime during the nineteenth century, began using it sacramentally, and convinced other tribes to join them in their sacred smoke. This Holy communion lead them to put away their weapons, and rename their land 3Lubuku2, meaning “Friendship”, greeting "each other with the expression 'Moio', meaning both 'hemp' and 'life'"(Benet 1975). Consider the Rastafarian movement in Jamaica, where independently, black descendants of slaves who had began using marijuana likely from an influence of Indian migrant workers, intuitively began to apply its use to a Biblical tradition, long acknowledging the sacred plant as the Tree of Life, and 'burning bush', sharing it as a Eucharist in a chillum-Chalice in order to awaken the "I" spirit that is common in us all. <a href="http://www.cannabisculture. com/backissues/jul95/scythians.html" target="_blank">The Scythians High Plains Drifters</a> The sorcerers of these Thracian tribes were known to have burned female cannabis flowers (and other psychoactive plants) as a mystical incense to induce trances. Their special talents were attributed to the "magical heat" produced from burning the cannabis and other herbs, believing that the plants dissolved in the flames, then reassembled themselves inside the person who inhaled the vapors. It could well be that in later times the cannabis smoke had somewhat mellowed the Scythians, and their spiritual leaders directed them towards becoming a more civilized people. The ancient Greek historian Ephorus wrote in the fourth century BC that the Scythians 'feed on mares milk and excel all men in justice'. His comments were followed in the first century BC by Strabo, who wrote that 'we regard the Scythians as the most just of men and the least prone to mischief, as also far more frugal and independent of others than we are.' <a href="http://www.room23.de/hotspot_1523-Sumach.html" target="_blank">The Scythian Queens</a> Like the Scythian shamans, the Thracians used cannabis in a similar manner. Dr Sumach explains in A Treasury of Hashish that: The sorcerers of these Thracian tribes were known to have burned female cannabis flowers (and other psychoactive plants) as a mystical incense to induce trances. Their special talents were attributed to the "magical heat" produced from burning the cannabis and other herbs, believing that the plants dissolved in the flames, then reassembled themselves inside the person who inhaled the vapors. <a href="http://surrealist.org/prayforpeace/1997b.html" target="_blank">Mari juana: Shamanic Tool of Ancient Cultures</a> Lord Balarama & Ganja Worshipers of Shiva traditionally offer their ganja to Shiva before smoking, but what about followers of Krishna? Krishna generally does not accept ganja offerings, although He clearly states that He is the healing essence of all herbs. In ancient India, the temple incense was infused with hashish so worshipers could inhale the sacred smoke and experience love of God. Although hash incense is no longer available, Krishna worshipers offer ganja smoke to Krishna's brother, Balarama, and receive the Lord's blessings. Mantra for offering ganja to Balarama: Baladev Baladev Hara Hara Ganja. <a href="http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/chaney/191/id53.htm" target="_blank">Wicc an Incense Spells</a> INCENSE FOR BAST 6 parts marijuana buds, marijuana leaves, skunk or hashish - use legal hemp for rope making. 4 parts frankincense 3 parts acacai gum 2 parts myrrh 1 part catnip 1 part cedar wood shavings 1 part cinnamon 1/2 part juniper berries 2 drops civet oil - use musk if you cannot get it. Grind up with mortar and pestle or coffee grinder and store in airtight container. <a href="http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/100/201/300/ejmas/kronos/2000/NewHist0000-0499.htm" target="_blank">kron os history 0000-0499 About 685 BCE</a> An Assyrian letter writer describes the hallucinogenic properties of kunubu, or orally ingested hashish. 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