Various herbs and resins are burned to create this sacred smoke, each carrying different meanings. Copal, a tree resin, produces a sacred smoke used in spiritual rituals and ceremonies for ...

Old Mexican woman quoted at: DeathScent.com The Aztecs called it the blood of trees, the exuding resin of a species taxonomists classified as Protium copal. Spanish friar Bernardino de Sahagun ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. As a young man, Djalma Moreira Lima used to walk throughout the rainforest to collect copal resin. He would wander around for hours looking for ...

Almaciga resin, also known as Manila copal, is used as an additive in industrial products like varnish and linoleum, as well as traditionally for starting fires, caulking boats and fumigating ...

But in rare cases, spiders can become trapped in various tree resins, such as amber and copal, preserving their bodies for millennia. Even more unusual is finding a fossilized spider masquerading ...

I closed my eyes and inhaled the spicy fragrance — copal resin mixed with cinnamon and rosemary — while Garcia brushed my limbs with a bundle of piper amalago leaves. The plant, part of the ...

Around the edges she’s built a rippling layer of beeswax, copal resin and pine rosin. She heats the wax with a small blowtorch to soften it before sticking on strings of tiny beads in bands of ...