Firebird of rebirth and awakening— rising from the ashes. Fiery rebirth of true will.
Phoenix is perfect to work with in times of transformation, rituals of death and rebirth, as well as the evocation or invocation of this being of power, for consecration, fire and purity. The incense is made from the historical ingredients used in the phoenix’s nest, and a perfect incense for attracting its virtues.
May be used as incense, in mojo bags, to dress vigil candles or roll the outside of dressed taper candles.
Herodotus, writing in the 5th century BC, on the phoenix:“[The Egyptians] have also another sacred bird called the phoenix which I myself have never seen, except in pictures. Indeed it is a great rarity, even in Egypt, only coming there (according to the accounts of the people of Heliopolis) once in five hundred years, when the old phoenix dies. Its size and appearance, if it is like the pictures, are as follow:- The plumage is partly red, partly golden, while the general make and size are almost exactly that of the eagle. They tell a story of what this bird does, which does not seem to me to be credible: that he comes all the way from Arabia, and brings the parent bird, all plastered over with myrrh, to the temple of the Sun, and there buries the body. In order to bring him, they say, he first forms a ball of myrrh as big as he finds that he can carry; then he hollows out the ball, and puts his parent inside, after which he covers over the opening with fresh myrrh, and the ball is then of exactly the same weight as at first; so he brings it to Egypt, plastered over as I have said, and deposits it in the temple of the Sun. Such is the story they tell of the doings of this bird.”
From Dante…. Incense and the Phoenix have been long associated.“Even thus by the great sages ’tis confessed The phoenix dies, and then is born again, When it approaches its five-hundredth year; On herb or grain it feeds not in its life, But only on tears of incense and amomum,and nard and myrrh are its last winding-sheet.”
Ingredients:
Myrrh, Spiknard, Cinnamon
Each incense blend is packaged in a clear square glass apothecary jar with a cork lid. Height 2″, Width 1 1/2″, and Length 1 1/2″. Capacity is 43 ml in size and holds approximately ½ -3/4 ounce of loose incense.
NOTE: Ritual Incense blends should be burned on charcoal.
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