osa nomo losfo gnoseht aso

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Taking
into account
the matriarchal element
of our Semitic culture,
one is led to believe that Asia Minor
was more or less the original point of expansion
for both the society based on the matriarchal circle
and the mass use of hashish.
So let's look for factors which could have contributed
to the start of mass use of hashish in the matriarchal circle.
One important factor is that in preparing fibre from the plant and during the harvest
the strong odour intoxicates the workers.
According to ancient customs still surviving in modern times,
all work involving hemp is done in mass.
Since antiquity the hemp harvest has been considered as a holiday,
especially for the young people.
In many countries the harvest is a sort of reunion to which guests come with or without masks
and give all sorts of presents to the workers.
Here we see an obvious link with the masculine secret societies in the matriarchal circle
in which there is mass use of hashish.
Another factor is the making of sacrifices to the ancestors,
which is a common practice in the masculine secret societies.
Here is another obvious link between the character of this plant used in the cult of the dead
and the masculine secret societies founded on this cult.
Many particularities of the ancestor culr can be brought forth as evidence of this?
In Poland on the night before Christmas a ritual dish is served made of hemp seeds, called 'hemp soup', because according to popular superstition at that time the souls of the dead visit their friends and family to feast together.
Another trace is the Polish habit of throuwing a few hemp seeds in the fire 'as a sacrifice'
during the harvest.
An obvious link between sacrifices of the dead and the mass use of hashish
is to be found in the Scythian
funeral ceremony.
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After
the burial,
the Scythians purified themselves in the following manner:
they washed and anointed their heads and, after having planted posts in the ground and wrapped cloth around them, they threw hemp into recepticles filled with red-hot stones.
By comparing the old Slavic word 'kepati' and the Russian 'kupati' with the Scythian 'cannabis'
the supposition could be developed and justified that there is a link between the Scythian baths
and Russian vapour baths.
In the entire Orient even today to 'go to the bath' means not only to accomplish an act of purification
and enjoy a pleasure, but also to fulfil the divine law.
Some call 'bath' any club in which the members play checkers, drink coffee,
and smoke hashish
or tobacco.
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The tobacco
imported from America
spread so rapidly through Europe because the way had been prepared for it by hemp.
Our human history is full of coincidences concerning food and drink, cloth & drug cultures, recipes & rites, rituals and religious practices involving mental exercises and strange 'mysteries'?
Inbetween Mother Africa and 'the rest of the world'
we can trace our ancestors expiditions
from deep dark secrets towards mystical light
shining through all ages and places
into our present circumstances
of 'hip' modern fashions
and travels through 'the wilderness'
by way of Suama:
the area around Tell Abu Matar &
recipes found on urns and cups,
workmanship of high {!} quality,
used at religious feasts,
the roots boiled and drunk
or the leaves
smoked.
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One text even notes
"To report none of their secrets
even though tortured to death!"
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Also
mentioned is
a holy hermit
named by the name
of Zin, also called Aqrabbim,
the first author of these recipes,
clothed only with what grew on trees,
ate only wild food,
took cold water baths,
renounced pleasure
other than his own brew,
devoted to peaceful acts,
members of his family
lived for over a hundred years,
psychedelic artisan & skilful craftsman,
would not make weapons,
could read ancient symbols,
wrote a new language of his own symbols,
studied herbs and roots,
always fasted the longest,
would not offer animal sacrifice,
excluded from the Temple of Jerusalem,
made brews for foretelling
the future
...
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"Studies
have shown
that the roots
of the Suama plant
were boiled to make a drink
producing states of bliss
and overt
joy!"
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THE
recipe:
Suama plant
found in region of Kadesh Barnea,
north-eastern Sinai,
the site of the Ascent of Aqrabbim?
Leaves smoked and inhaled
at a Palestine synagogue
during the writing of Hasteric Scrolls {Books of Joy}
adding that
"The Suama plant is known to us
from the time of the Pentateuch;
some very early
discoveries have been made concerning this Suama plant:
we even can
find it coming up and going again
and again under different circumstances and names!
Smoking its leaves or using its roots
as a herbal drink always produces states
of flashing colours and bliss
euphoric ~ a specimen
of a type of recipe credited to
a hermit named
Zin
...
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A
bit exaggered
of course but
nevertheless pointing to certain
practices and habits 'of old'
to elevate human consciousness towards bliss and euphoria:

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THY LIPS
o my spouse
drop as the honeycomb
honey & milk are under thy tongue
and the smell of thy garments
is like the smell
of Levanon
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A GARDEN
inclosed is my sister
my spouse:
e spring shut up
a fountain
sealed
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THY PLANTS
are an orchard of pomepranates
with pleasant fruits
camphire with spikenard
spikenard & saffron
calamus {!} & cinnamon
with all trees of frankincense
myrrh & aloes
with all the chief herbs
spices
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A FOUNTAIN OF GARDENS
a well of living waters
and streams from Levanon

AWAKE
o north wind

AND COME THOU SOUTH

BLOW UPON MY GARDEN
that the spices thereof may flow out

LET MY BELOVED
COME INTO HIS GARDEN
AND EAT PLEASANT
FRUITS


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