It is important to many Indigenous spiritual rituals for its cleansing properties. Various herbs and resins are burned to create this sacred smoke, each carrying different meanings. Copal, a tree ...

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 ...