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For direct-burning incense, pieces of the incense are burned by placing them directly on top of a heat source or on a hot metal plate in a censer or thurible. [ 3 ] Indirect-burning incense, also called "non-combustible incense", [ 4 ] is a combination of aromatic ingredients that are not prepared in any particular way or encouraged into any ...
A thurible, a type of censer, is used to contain incense as it is burned. [6] A server called a thurifer, sometimes assisted by a "boat bearer" who carries the receptacle for the incense, approaches the person conducting the service with the thurible charged with burning bricks of red-hot charcoal. Incense, in the form of pebbly grains or ...
Copal from Madagascar with spiders, termites, ants, elateridae, hymenoptera, cockroach and a flower A sample of copal containing a few termites. Copal is a tree resin, particularly the aromatic resins from the copal tree Protium copal (Burseraceae) used by the cultures of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica as ceremonially burned incense and for other purposes. [1]
Burning incense at the Longhua Temple Smoke from incense stick. Incense is an aromatic biotic material that releases fragrant smoke when burnt. The term is used for either the material or the aroma. [1] Incense is used for aesthetic reasons, religious worship, aromatherapy, meditation, and ceremonial reasons.
Two servers swing thuribles towards the congregation during a funeral. The Roman Missal, as revised in 1969, allows the use of incense at any Mass: in the entrance procession; at the beginning of Mass to incense the cross and the altar; at the Gospel procession and proclamation; after the bread and the chalice have been placed upon the altar, to incense the offerings, the cross, and the altar ...
According to Plutarch (De Iside et Osiride) and Suidas (s. v. Μανήθως), the Egyptian priest Manetho (ca. 300 BCE) is said to have written a treatise called "On the preparation of kyphi" (Περὶ κατασκευη̑ϛ κυφίων), but no copy of this work survives.
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Besides meaning "incense", the Chinese word xiang also means "fragrance; scent; aroma; perfume; spice". The sinologist and historian Edward H. Schafer said that in medieval China: there was little clear-cut distinction among drugs, spices, perfumes, and incenses – that is, among substances which nourish the body and those which nourish the ...