tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9397334295818968232024-03-05T22:39:52.979-08:00MYSTERIUMMartin FreebaseMartin Leonard Freebasehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14662564616919394792noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-939733429581896823.post-77693264405437513182015-10-20T10:29:00.001-07:002015-10-20T10:29:48.976-07:00shaggy<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/30J0X2BRyJU" width="480"></iframe>Martin Leonard Freebasehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14662564616919394792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-939733429581896823.post-80951266750819212802015-10-20T10:23:00.001-07:002015-10-20T10:23:27.304-07:00Enlightenment<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Blood
poured from several openings. There is always too much blood and gore. The
physical becomes more and more synthetic over time. The physical expands and
grows into a larger and larger being, encompassing everything. The physical
becomes greater than the sum of its parts. The sights and sounds of all the
accessories put the poor little fool into fits. The lights and sounds spin
around and around his head. And then there are the smells and the feelings that
swallow him up and overwhelm him. There also is the madness of the vagaries of
life that eat away at him little by little, one bite after another come for him
like a school of piranha to eat and devour his little world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">You are
without support, now. You are not resistant to the hegemony of the distinctive
forms of the touchstones of critique. You are cynical and irreverent as you
place your hopes on grimly evolved insipient solutions that no one can swallow.
Alienated from the million eyes, you have become a creative installation of
deviance and bogus values. With your blank bored demeanor, you absorb the
impish and sweltering totality of negative choices of self-loathing and
frittering your life away. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Kicker
was jealous of her happy eyes. Her eyes mocked him with every twinkle. They
taunted him to reach into his bag of severity. He pulled forth from his inner
being all the evil he could muster. He fought back tears as he pulled the rope
from his pocket. Kicker was shaking with the fear of what was about to happen.
He knew that he was a puppet being manipulated by unseen strings. He coiled the
rope around her neck like a snake. The rope was an inanimate thing that wanted
life. The rope wanted Sushi’s life. She lived on this earth long enough and now
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I
wouldn’t say he is stupid, but gullible. He has a smothered flat face with a
constant blank look upon it and his eyes seem almost lifeless. He always had
difficulty making sense out of the larger world. He is constantly stoned on
phenobarbital, diazepam, hydrocodone, and oxycodone. He has been in and out of
a blackout for a good part of three years. The result of this is that his mind
is pretty frayed. He is manning the helm of a sinking ship, a fool with no
hope. It took him a total of nine weeks to organize his thoughts into some sort
of meaningful pattern that would allow him to go on living. He couldn’t change
his mind, once he believed there was no convincing him. He would filter out all
evidence to the contrary. He was a stone cold believer no matter how foolish
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">He
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before he was ever born. We can see them coming, we always do. The trick is to
pick the right one. There are so many to choose from. The weak and the
spineless are in abundance on this earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">When I
said that you were backward, quaint, naïve, anachronistic, I watched your eyes
grow wider and wider as if they were juxtapositions of the parts of yourself. I
leaned away from you repulsed by the dismantling of the clearly repressed and
unifying obsessions of your face-stuffed wishful thinking that borders on the
absurdist boundaries of hell wand high-water. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It’s no
fun living an ugly life and to be so lonely. I’m not that bad, just
misunderstood. If only I could explain things better, then maybe they would be
able to see things my way. Kicker moves down lower to feel the psychic waves
that are emanating from her. Each one jolts him as it hits his body and moves
on. He never once thinks if someone else could feel this. You could say he
lacked empathy, especially for his victims.</span></div>
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He needs to feel that he is in control. He wants to be
calling the shots. Rocky is used to getting his way; I guess he is sort of
spoilt in that way. He will pout like a little baby if he doesn’t get his way.
He did seem oddly possessed, especially when he laughed like a machine gun. How
do you answer someone who claims to be your death incarnate? What do you do
when someone smiles at you in a psychotic way? There are no rules to guide your
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myself. You wrap yourself in this pseudo security and hope that nothing touches
you. <a href="http://martinfreebase7.blogspot.com/2013/12/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none.html">But, I have been touched.</a> </div>
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Saint Nicholas</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On 26 August 1071 </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanus_IV" title="Romanus IV"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Romanus IV</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
Emperor of the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Byzantine Empire</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (reigned 1068–1071), faced Sultan </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alp_Arslan" title="Alp Arslan"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alp Arslan</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
of the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seljuk_Turks" title="Seljuk Turks"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Seljuk Turks</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (reigned 1059–1072) in the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Manzikert" title="Battle of Manzikert"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Battle of Manzikert</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. The battle ended in humiliating defeat and capture for
Romanus. As a result the Empire temporarily lost control over most of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Minor" title="Asia Minor"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Asia Minor</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
to the invading </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seljuk_Turks" title="Seljuk Turks"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Seljuk Turks</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. The Byzantines would regain its control over </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Minor" title="Asia Minor"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Asia Minor</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
during the reign of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexius_I_Comnenus" title="Alexius I Comnenus"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alexius I Comnenus</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (reigned 1081–1118). But early in his reign Myra was
overtaken by the Turks. Nicholas' tomb in Myra had become a popular place of
pilgrimage. <a href="http://martinfreebase.blogspot.com/">Because of the many wars and attacks in the region, some Christianswere concerned that access to the tomb might become difficult. For both thereligious and commercial advantages of a major </a>pilgrimage site, the Italian
cities of Venice and Bari vied to get the Nicholas relics.</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas#cite_note-center-3"><sup><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[3]</span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Taking advantage of the confusion, in the spring of 1087, sailors from </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bari" title="Bari"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bari</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> in Apulia seized part of the
remains of the saint from his </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Nicholas_Church,_Demre" title="St. Nicholas Church, Demre"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">burial
church in Myra</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, over the objections of the
Orthodox </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monasticism" title="Monasticism"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">monks</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. Returning to Bari, they brought the remains with them and
cared for them. The remains arrived on 9 May 1087. There are numerous
variations of this account. In some versions those taking the relics are
characterized as thieves or pirates, in others they are said to have taken them
in response to a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_%28religion%29" title="Vision (religion)"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">vision</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> wherein Saint Nicholas himself appeared and commanded that
his relics be moved in order to preserve them from the impending Muslim
conquest. Currently at Bari, there are two churches at his shrine, one Roman
Catholic and one Orthodox.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The church of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Nicol%C3%B2_al_Lido" title="San Nicolò al Lido"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">San Nicolò al Lido</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (Venice), hosts half of Nicolas' relics</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sailors from Bari collected just
half of Nicholas' skeleton, leaving all the minor fragments in the grave. These
were collected by Venetian sailors during the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_crusade" title="First crusade"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">first crusade</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
and brought to </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice" title="Venice"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Venice</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, where a church to St. Nicholas, the patron of sailors, was
built on the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Nicol%C3%B2_al_Lido" title="San Nicolò al Lido"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lido</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. This tradition was confirmed in two scientific
investigations of the relics in Bari and Venice, which revealed that the relics
in the two cities belong to the same skeleton.</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas#cite_note-20"><sup><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[20]</span></sup></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas#cite_note-21"><sup><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[21]</span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is said that in </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myra" title="Myra"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Myra</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> the relics of Saint Nicholas each
year exuded a clear watery liquid which smells like rose water, called </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna" title="Manna"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">manna</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (or </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrrh" title="Myrrh"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">myrrh</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">), which is believed by the faithful
to possess </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle" title="Miracle"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">miraculous</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
powers. After the relics were brought to </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bari" title="Bari"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bari</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, they continued to do so, much to
the joy of the new owners. Vials of myrrh from his relics have been taken all
over the world for centuries, and can still be obtained from his church in
Bari. Even up to the present day, a flask of manna is extracted from the tomb
of Saint Nicholas every year on 6 December (the Saint's </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_day" title="Feast day"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">feast day</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">)
by the clergy of the basilica. The </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrrh" title="Myrrh"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">myrrh</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is collected from a sarcophagus
which is located in the basilica vault and could be obtained in the shop
nearby. The liquid gradually seeps out of the tomb, but it is unclear whether
it originates from the body within the tomb, or from the marble itself; since
the town of Bari is a harbor, and the tomb is below </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level" title="Sea level"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">sea level</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
there are several natural explanations for the manna fluid, including the
transfer of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawater" title="Seawater"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">seawater</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> to the tomb by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capillary_action" title="Capillary action"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">capillary action</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas#cite_note-22"><sup><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[22]</span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In 1993, a grave was found on the
small Turkish island of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemile" title="Gemile"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gemile</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, east of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes" title="Rhodes"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rhodes</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, which historians believe is the
original tomb of Saint Nicholas.</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas#cite_note-23"><sup><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[23]</span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
On 28 December 2009, the Turkish Government announced that it would be formally
requesting the return of St. Nicholas's skeletal remains to Turkey from the
Italian government.</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas#cite_note-24"><sup><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[24]</span></sup></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas#cite_note-25"><sup><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[25]</span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Turkish authorities have asserted that St. Nicholas himself desired to be
buried at his episcopal town, and that his remains were illegally removed from
his homeland.</span></div>
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<b>Myrrh</b> <span class="ipa"><span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English">/</a></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span title="/ˈ/ primary stress follows">ˈ</span></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span title="/ɜr/ 'ir' in 'bird'">ɜr</span></a><span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English">/</a></span></span> is the aromatic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resin" title="Resin">resin</a> of a number of
small, thorny tree species of the genus <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commiphora" title="Commiphora">Commiphora</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrrh#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup>
which is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_oil" title="Essential oil">essential oil</a> termed an <i>oleoresin</i>. Myrrh resin
is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gum" title="Natural gum">natural
gum</a>. It can also be ingested by mixing it with wine.<sup id="cite_ref-Froman2005_2-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrrh#cite_note-Froman2005-2">[2]</a></sup><br />
When a tree wound penetrates through the bark and into the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapwood_%28wood%29" title="Sapwood (wood)">sapwood</a>,
the tree bleeds a resin. Myrrh gum, like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankincense" title="Frankincense">frankincense</a>,
is such a resin. When people harvest myrrh, they wound the trees repeatedly to
bleed them of the gum. Myrrh gum is waxy, and coagulates quickly. After the
harvest, the gum becomes hard and glossy. The gum is yellowish, and may be
either clear or opaque. It darkens deeply as it ages, and white streaks emerge.<sup id="cite_ref-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrrh#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup><br />
Myrrh gum is commonly harvested from the species <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commiphora_myrrha" title="Commiphora myrrha">Commiphora
myrrha</a></i>, which is native to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen">Yemen</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrea" title="Eritrea">Eritrea</a> and eastern <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a>.
Another farmed species is <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commiphora_molmol" title="Commiphora molmol">Commiphora
molmol</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrrh#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> The related
<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commiphora_gileadensis" title="Commiphora gileadensis">Commiphora gileadensis</a></i>, native to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Mediterranean" title="Eastern Mediterranean">Eastern Mediterranean</a> and particularly the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_Peninsula" title="Arabian Peninsula">Arabian
Peninsula</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrrh#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> is the
biblically referenced Balm of Gilead,<sup id="cite_ref-Gibson_2011.2C_p._160_6-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrrh#cite_note-Gibson_2011.2C_p._160-6">[6]</a></sup>
also known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balsam_of_Mecca" title="Balsam of Mecca">Balsam of Mecca</a>. Several other species yield <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bdellium" title="Bdellium">bdellium</a> and
Indian myrrh.<br />
The oleo gum resins of a number of other <i>Commiphora</i> species are also
used as perfumes, medicines (such as aromatic wound dressings), and incense
ingredients. A lesser quality myrrh is bled from the tree <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commiphora_erythraea&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Commiphora erythraea (page does not exist)">Commiphora erythraea</a></i>.
<i>Commiphora gileadensis</i> oleo gum resin is known as opobalsamum, a name it
shares with the gum resin bled from a species of parsnip, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Opopanax_opopanax&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Opopanax opopanax (page does not exist)">Opopanax opopanax</a></i>.<br />
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Myrrh was used by the ancient Egyptians, along with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natron" title="Natron">natron</a>, for the embalming
of mummies.<sup id="cite_ref-21"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrrh#cite_note-21">[21]</a></sup><br />
According to the Encyclopedia of Islamic Herbal Medicine, "The
Messenger of Allah stated, 'Fumigate your houses with al-shih, murr, and
sa'tar.'" The author claims that this use of the word "murr"
refers specifically to Commiphora myrrha.<sup id="cite_ref-22"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrrh#cite_note-22">[22]</a></sup><br />
Myrrh was an ingredient of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketoret" title="Ketoret">Ketoret</a>, the consecrated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense" title="Incense">incense</a> used in
the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon%27s_Temple" title="Solomon's Temple">First</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Temple" title="Second Temple">Second
Temples</a> at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>, as described in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_Bible" title="Hebrew Bible">Hebrew
Bible</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud" title="Talmud">Talmud</a>.
An offering was made of the Ketoret on a special incense altar, and was an
important component of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_in_Jerusalem" title="Temple in Jerusalem">Temple service</a>. Myrrh is also listed as an
ingredient in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_anointing_oil" title="Holy anointing oil">holy anointing oil</a> used to anoint the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabernacle" title="Tabernacle">Tabernacle</a>,
high priests and kings.<br />
Myrrh was traded by camel caravans overland from areas of production in
southern Arabia by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabataeans" title="Nabataeans">Nabataeans</a> to their capital city of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra" title="Petra">Petra</a>, from which it
was distributed throughout the Mediterranean region.<sup id="cite_ref-Gibson_2011.2C_p._160_6-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrrh#cite_note-Gibson_2011.2C_p._160-6">[6]</a></sup><br />
According to the book of <a href="http://tools.wmflabs.org/bibleversefinder/bibleversefinder.php?book=%20Matthew&verse=2:11&src=NIV">Matthew
2:11</a>, gold, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankincense" title="Frankincense">frankincense</a> and myrrh were among the gifts to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Magi" title="Biblical Magi">Biblical
Magi</a> "from the East." Because of its mention in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament">New
Testament</a>, myrrh is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense" title="Incense">incense</a> offered during Christian <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_liturgy" title="Christian liturgy">liturgical
celebrations</a> (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurible" title="Thurible">Thurible</a>). Liquid myrrh is sometimes added to egg tempera in
the making of ikons.<br />
Myrrh is mixed with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankincense" title="Frankincense">frankincense</a> and sometimes more scents and is used in
almost every service of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox" title="Eastern Orthodox">Eastern
Orthodox</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Orthodox" title="Oriental Orthodox">Oriental Orthodox</a>, traditional <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic" title="Roman Catholic">Roman
Catholic</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican" title="Anglican">Anglican</a>/<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican_Communion" title="Anglican Communion">Episcopal</a> Churches.<br />
Myrrh is also used to prepare the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrament" title="Sacrament">sacramental</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrism" title="Chrism">chrism</a> used by many
churches of both Eastern and Western rites. In the Middle East, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Eastern Orthodox Church</a> traditionally uses
myrrh-scented oil to perform the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrament" title="Sacrament">sacraments</a> of
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodoxy#Chrismation" title="Eastern Orthodoxy">chrismation</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodoxy#Unction" title="Eastern Orthodoxy">unction</a>, both of which are commonly referred to
as "receiving the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_anointing_oil" title="Holy anointing oil">Chrism</a>".<br />
Oil of myrrh is used in The Book of Esther 2:12 in a purification ritual for
the new queen to King Ahasuerus:<br />
"Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after
that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so
were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil
of myrrh, and six months with sweet odors, and with other things for the
purifying of the women;)<sup id="cite_ref-23"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrrh#cite_note-23">[23]</a></sup><br />
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