#Santa Damiana

[zigarrenherzog-blog]

Zigarren Herzog ist nicht einfach nur ein Online Shop für Zigarren, Dr Maximilian Herzog betreibt mit "Herzog am Hafen", "Herzog am Ludwigkirchplatz" und " La Casa del Habano" drei Ladengeschäfte in Berlin. Eine exklusive Auswahl an Zigarren bestimmt damit das Sortiment des Zigarren Online Shops mit Marken wie Cohiba, Santa Damiana oder Plasencia. Alle Zigarren sind perfekt gelagert, jede Zigarre wird vor dem Online Versand per Hand geprüft. Neben Zigarren bietet Zigarren Herzog ebenfalls Zigarillos, Zigarren Zubehör, Spirituosen und vieles mehr an.

[spookypetrine]

Bewitching the Elements: Ritual Baths

So here I will be posting different items you can use for a spiritual bath to invoke different emotions and feels.

For Healing

Colors: light blue, dark blue, white, lavender, gold

Scents: lavender, peppermint, eucalyptus

Crystals: amethyst, blue lace agate, clear quartz, rose quartz, charoite

Herbs: Lavender, chamomile, pink rose, rosemary, butterfly pea

For Love/ Self- Love

Colors: pink, white, gold, red, scarlet, silver

Scents: rose, jasmine, lavender, cinnamon, honey

Crystals: rose quartz, rhodonite, carnelian, jade, peach moonstone, rhodochrosite

Herbs: roses, lavender, damiana, deer's tongue, lavender, chamomile

For Confidence

Colors: yellow, orange, red, magenta- the colors of the sun

Scents: bright florals, cinnamon

Crystals: citrine, carnelian, tiger's eye

Herbs: chamomile, ginger, valerian, lemon balm, St. John's Wort

For Creativity

Colors: yellow, orange, red, deep purple, violet, royal blue, gold, white

Scents: Citrus, cinnamon, honey, cloves, salt of the ocean

Crystals: clear quartz, carnelian, citrine, tiger's eye

Herbs: rosemary, peppermint, orange peel, mugwort, ashwaganda

For Grounding

Colors: white, gold, light blue, dark purple, earth tones

Scents: cedar, lavender, sage, copal, frankincense

Crystals: onyx, smoky quartz, tiger's eye, carnelian, pyrite

Herbs: roots, dandelion, rosemary, nettle

For Releasing

Colors: black, silver, white, dark purple, dark blue

Scents: frankincense, sweetgrass, copal, cinnamon, tobacco

Crystals: black tourmaline, amethyst, smoky quartz

Herbs: nettle, devil's shoestring, rosemary, peppermint, thyme, St, John's Wort

For Protection

Colors: white, gold

Scents: sweetgrass, lavender, copal, frankincense

Crystals: onyx, lapis lazuli, clear quartz, black tourmaline, bloodstone

Herbs: Cascarilla (powdered eggshell), yerba santa, juniper, basil, bay leaves, mugwort, hyssop, thyme, valerian, devil's shoestring

For Manifesting

Colors: yellow, gold, orange, scarlet, red, white

Scents: citrus, rose, honey, lavender, sandalwood, sweetgrass

Crystals: citrine, yellow topaz, moonstone, clear quartz

Herbs: dandelion, rosemary, pomegranate, ginseng, violet

For Connecting with the Divine Feminine

Colors: white, light purple, light blue, deep ocean blue, deep purple, violet, gold, silver

Scents: rose, jasmine, lavender, honey

Crystals: rose quartz, moonstone, angelite, angel aura quartz

Herbs: rose, lavender, mugwort, nettle, violet, damiana, butterfly pea

For Fostering Intuition

Colors: white, silver, light pink, violet, light blue

Scents: mugwort, cannabis, frankincense, copal

Crystals: amethyst, clear quartz, moonstone, angel aura, quartz, angelite, charoite, herkimer diamond

Herbs: mugwort, rosemary, dandelion, chamomile, skullcap, mint, nutmeg

[skogenraev]

Saint Nicholas

SAlso known as Nicholas of Myra, Nicolo, Claes, Nicolae etc

Classification: venerated as a saint by most branches of Christianity. 

Facts: 

He was a bishop of Myra, now known as Demre in modern turkey. 

He lived in the early fourth century and died in approximately 350

He was buried in his own cathedral

Nicholas developed a reputation as a wonder worker and his shrine was, for centurys, a significant and important Christian pilgrimage site. 

Favored People: children, unwed mothers, pawnbrokers, captives, bankers, beggars, lawyers, woman who wish to marry, sailors, mariners, merchants, distillers

Attributes:  bishops mitre, a book, 3 golden balls

Sacred Animal:  In Bulgariann lore, a magical carp is his servant

Spiritual Allies: 

In the context of icons and religious legends, Nicholas is often accompanied by angels, especially Gabriel and Michael

In the context of ritualized feast-day making, Nicholas is frequently accompanied by a helper spirit, typically a Pagan or demonic figure like krampus, ruprecht or black pete. While Nicholas - or someone dressed as him - rewards well-behaved children, the helper spirit - or someone dressed as that guise - punished the unruly under the direction of Saint Nick. 

Ritual: Saint Nickolas is a gift gaver but he does not dress like Santa Claus. He appears dressed as a bishop and there is nothing secular about him. Saint Nicholas does not visit homes at midnight. Instead, men impersonating him knock on the door in broad daylight accompanied by assistans and attendants. These representatives ask children to account for their behavior and may ask religious questions and make religious speeches. 

Sacred Tree:  Pine Sacred Plants:  Sanicula spp, damiana, a potent aphrodisiac known as Saint Nicholas in Mexico (stevia serrata) Feasts:  6.December, his primary feast, 19, December in orthodox churches Offerings:  donations and good deeds on behalf of the poor and needy, gifts for children, a basket filled with apples, nuts, candy, sweets, a stiff drink, candles

[madeofbranchesandash]

Plantas de A a Z

Abacateiro🍃.( tratamento de abscessos,problemas do fígado, aftas, vermes, tuberculose e varizes). Alcachofra🍃(auxilia e diminui o colesterol e digestivo) Alcaçuz🍃(para úlceras, laxante,regulador hormonal,e expectorante) Alecrim🍃(reumatismo,tônico, afecções das vias respiratórias e relaxante muscular). Alfavaca🍃(digestivo, dores estomacais ,gases, aftas,bronquite, gripe e infecções  urinárias). Alfazema🍃(calmante,analgésico, gases intestinais). Amora🍃(reposição hormonal,transtorno da menopausa,anti- inflamatorio é cicatrizante). Aquileia🍃(má circulação, varizes, reumatismo,artrite, artrose). Arnica🍃(anti-inflamatorio, reumatismo,artrite, artrose). Arruda🍃(estimula a menstruação, vermes,calmante,varizes,erisipele). Artemísia🍃(neuvragia, cólica menstrual,vasodilatador e circulação). Assa peixe🍃(expectorante, tosse,gripe e bronquite asmática). Aroeira🌱(anti-inflamatorio, cicatrizante, coluna ,nervo ciático é diarréia). Angico🌱(gripe, asma, hemorragia uterina e diarréia). Agoniada🌱(inflamação uterina, estimulante a menstruação). Assaçú🌱(câncer de toda ordem). Andiroba🌱(anti-inflamatorio e cicatrizante). Açoita cavalo🌱(menstruação difícil, hepatite e anti inflamatório). Angélica🍂(digestiva, asma,bronquite e convulsão). Bardana🍃(depurativo, colesterol, laxante, diabetes e afecções da pele). Boldo🍃(fígado, pâncreas, vesícula e cálculo biliar). Barbatimão🌱(útero , hemorragia,gastrite,catarro uretral e vaginal, blenorragia e corrimentos). Calêndula🍃(cicatrizante,calos, frieiras, menstruação irregular queimaduras). Camomila🍃(cólica, regula a função digestiva e calmante). Cana do brejo🍃(diurética, cálculo renal,cistite,uretite e corrimento vaginal). Capim cidrão🍃(calmante,ansiedade,dores de cabeça e analgésico). Carqueja🍃(digestiva, diurética,emagrecedora, doenças do fígado, estômago, cálculos biliares, baço,bexigae anemia). Carobinha🍃(afecções das vias urinárias e antialérgica). Cavalinha🍃(osteoporose, reumatismo, pressão alta,rins,ácido úrico e menstruação excessiva). Canela de velho🍃(dores musculares e articulações). Cardamomo🍃(afrodisíaco, mau hálito e digestivo). Catinga de mulata🍃(vermes, epilepsia, gota e reumatismo). Centelha asiática🍃(celulite,gordura localizada, má circulação e preventivo das rugas). Chapéu de couro🍃(afecções renais, hepáticas,ácido úrico e diabetes). Chá verde🍃(antioxidante, prevenção das doenças cardíacas,fonte de vitaminas C K B1 e B2, baixa o colesterol). Confrei🍃(cicatrizante, queimaduras, alergia e psoríase). Cabeça de nego🌱(coluna e reumatismo). Caimbé🌱( anti inflamatório,e cicatrizante). Cajuí🌱(diabetes e lavar feridas). Canela🌱(calmante e pressão alta ). Catuaba🌱(energético, afrodisíaco,memória fraca,fortalecedor dos nervos). Carapanaúba🌱( fígado ,baço estômago e malária). Carvalho🌱(hemorróida ,atraso menstrual e leucorreia) Casca de ameixa🌱(anti-inflamatório do estômago) Cascara sagrada🌱(laxante e regulador intestinal) Cedro🌱(febre ,diarreia e expectorante) Cipó cruz🌱(retenção urinária, reumatismo, artrite e coluna) Cipó suma🌱(depurativo ,furúnculos psoríase) Cipó mil homens🌱(rins ,fígado, baço, gota ,epilepsia ,diarreia ,eczema, tensão pré-menstrual e próstata) Cipó escada🌱(vermes, hemorragia, diarreia e próstata) Copaíba🌱(anti-inflamatório, cicatrizante e anticancerígeno) Carapiá🌱(diurético ,expectorante e irregularidade menstrual) Damiana🍃(afrodisíaca ,estresse e ansiedade). Dente de leão🍃(diarreia, hemorragia, hemorróida e hipertensão). Douradão🍃(rins,diurética e infecção renal). Erva de bicho🍃(hemorróidas, afecções urinárias, fibromas uterinos e anti vermes). Erva de São João🍃(antidepressivo, menopausa, reumatismo e problemas articulares). Espinheira santa🍃( gastrite, úlceras gástricas, cicatrizante  e gases intestinais) . Eucalipto🍃(expectorante, sedativo e descongestionante das vias respiratórias) Embaúba🍃(no tratamento de casos de pressão alta, tosse, feridas na pele,taquicardia,  tuberculose ,asma, coqueluche e diabetes .As folhas secas de embaúba serve para banhos em feridas grangrenosas e algumas afecções da pele) Erva baleeira🍃(analgésica, cicatrizante ,anti-inflamatória e relaxante) Funcho🍃(gases e calmante) Fedegoso🌱(depurativo ,malária e fígado) Genciana🍃(ajuda no tratamento de alergias amenorreia ,anemia, diarreia, dores reumática, febre, azia ,cálculos biliares ,diabetes ,anorexia ,artrite, fraqueza geral ,gastrite, gota, icterícia, náuseas, resfriado, vermes intestinais e vômitos) Gervão🍃(fígado ,rins, diurético, bronquite e contusões) Guaçatonga🍃(reumatismo ,sapinho, herpes, hemorragia ,inflamações, inchaços nas pernas ,ácido úrico ,aftas, artrite ,dores no peito ,diarreia ,eczema, picadas de cobras, picadas de insetos, micose ,sífilis ,obesidade, úlceras e sarnas) Guaco🍃 bronquite, antisséptico, febre e picada de insetos) Guiné🍃(dores reumáticas ,coluna, dores de cabeça ,garganta e gengivites inflamadas) Garra do diabo🌱(reumatismo, esporão, gota e depurativo) Gengibre🌱(asma ,bronquite e rouquidão) Ginseng🌱(energético, esgotamento físico e mental) Hamamélis🍃(problemas circulatórios ,varizes, trombose e hemorróidas) Hibiscus🍃(antibacteriana, diurético, laxante, calmante e inibidor do apetite) Hortelã menta🍃(digestivo e gases) Ipê roxo🌱(arteriosclerose, úlceras e câncer ) Jasmim🍃(digestivo ,laxante e insônia) Jurubeba🍃(no tratamento de doenças como : hepatite ,contusões, gastrite ,úlceras, anemia, acne, anorexia, azia, ressaca, tosse, bronquite, problemas de bexiga, cistite,febre diabetes engorgitamentos do fígado e do baço estômago auxiliar no emagrecimento feridas gripe) Jatobá🌱(bronquite, laringite, fraqueza muscular ,anemia, próstata e doenças respiratórias) Jequitibá🌱(leucorreia uso externo) João da Costa🌱(cólicas menstruais, artrite ,corrimentos e reumatismo) Juá🌱(seborreia e caspa) Jurema preta🌱(anti-inflamatório) Japecanga🌱(prisão de ventre, constipação crônica, coluna e depurativo) Levante🍃(febre, congestão nasal e expectorante) Losna🍃(problemas hepáticos e anti vermes) Louro🍃(tempero, cólicas e menstruação) Mão de Deus🍃(anti tabagismo e alcoolismo) Marcela🍃(digestiva, fígado, diarreia e gases) Manjericão🍃(digestivo, problemas respiratórios e dores de cabeça) Melão de São Caetano🍃(reumatismos vermes e piolhos) uso externo. Moringa🍃(diabetes, colesterol, auxilia na perda de peso) Maracujá passiflora🍃(sedativo e tranquilizante) Mangaba🌱(pressão alta) Mamica de cadela🌱(dores de dentes ouvido e vitiligo) uso externo. Mulungu🌱(sedativo, insônia histeria e alucinações) Nogueira🍃(fadiga, estresse, cansaço físico, problemas estomacais, problemas sanguíneos e circulatórios, anemia, plaquetas e imunidade) Nó de cachorro🌱(depurativo afrodisíaco e estimulante) Oliveira🍃(regula intestino e a pressão alta) Pata de vaca🍃(diabetes e diuréticos) Pedra de ume kaa🍃(insulina vegetal e diabetes) Picão🍃(icterícia- amarelão, hepatite, e alergia) Poejo🍃(expectorante, gripes, resfriados, tosse crônica e asma) Porangaba🍃(estimulante, evita a formação de depósito de gorduras) Pulmonária🍃(pneumonia, tuberculose e enfisema pulmonar) Parietária🍃(ótimo remédio contra afecções pulmonares e hepáticas, cálculos renais, artrite, bronquite, infecções urinárias, dermatoses, queimaduras e edemas.  Além disso, é eficaz no tratamento de furúnculos, fissuras labiais e anais, úlceras e inflamações) Pariparoba🍃aromaterapia: o óleo essencial das folhas de Paraopeba é utilizado na aromaterapia. Ação antioxidante: a planta possui ação antioxidante, portanto, atua no combate aos radicais livres, substâncias maléficas encontradas no organismo que causam doenças graves como câncer e são promotoras do envelhecimento precoce) Pau tenente🌱(diabetes e fortificante hepático) Pau Pereira🌱(digestivo, estomacal e prisão de ventre) Quina quina🌱(estômago, baço, fígado e malária) abortiva Quebra pedra🍃(afecções das vias urinárias e cálculos biliares) Rosas vermelhas🍃(afecções da laringe, faringe, corrimento e gonorreia) Sabugueiro🍃(febre, resfriado, catapora e sarampo) Sacaca🍃(malária, fígado, Baço, coceira e fungos) Sálvia do campo🍃(anemia, fígado, dengue e malária) Sene🍃(laxante e regulador intestinal) Sete sangrias🍃(pressão alta, problemas cardíacos, palpitação, insônia e psoríase) Stelvia🍃(é um adoçante natural que não faz mal para saúde podemos ser utilizado para substituir o açúcar em sucos,  chás, bolos e outras preparações doces) Sara tudo🌱(anti-inflamatório e cicatrizante de útero e ovário) Sassafrás🌱(depurativo, artrite e reumatismo) Saracuramirá🌱(diabetes) Salsaparrilha🌱(depurativa, ácido úrico e colesterol) Tansagem🍃(depurativa, gengivite, constipação intestinal, relaxante muscular e enxaqueca) Tília🍃(antidepressivo e calmante) Uva ursi🍃(inflamação renal crônica, ácido úrico e próstata) Unha de gato🌱(artrite, mioma, reumatismo, sinusite, rinite, amigdalite, dores em geral) Uxi amarelo🌱(miomas, cisto, inflamações do útero, hemorragia uterina e cólicas menstruais) Valeriana🍃(sedativo ,insônia, histeria, estresse e transtorno da menopausa) Valame do campo🍃(depurativo, anti-inflamatório, eczema, sífilis) Verônica🌱(serve para tratar problemas como falta de apetite, sensação de peso no estômago, enxaqueca causada por má digestão, assim como para aclamar pruridos e suavizar a pele ressecada pelo frio, anti-inflamatório do sistema uterino) Xixuá🌱(afrodisíaco e fortificante) Zedoária🍃(bronquites, úlceras gástricas, insônia.  Além disso, a planta é capaz até mesmo de reduzir os níveis de colesterol ruim na circulação sanguínea).

[shipahoi]

Happy New Year to @damiana-atx from your Secret Santa!! It was nice talking to you and getting to know you a little bit. May 2020 bring you and your family happiness, health and joy 🤗

[slowburnsociety]

Santa Damiana Vintage Maduro Robusto Доминиканска прелест ! Силни студени аромати на торф. Приказни вкусове на прясно смляно кафе доминират още при първото дърпане, заедно с торф, и изненадващи creamy вкус и аромат. Страхотно качество на самата пура, и наистина специално удоволствие. Меките creamy нотки нестандартно могат да се комбинират  с пенливи, било от Шампан или Francia Corta,  с висока минералност.  Друга логична женитба за тази пура може да е хубаво Порто.

[mgasugilanon]

A Legend of Lapu-lapu

Mactan Island

This is the story of Lapulapu and his rivals and enemies battling at Mactan.

“A favorite legend about Lapulapu among rural folk on Mactan Island tells of the hero's love for Princess Bulakna. She was the lovely daughter of Rajah Kusgano, king of Ulangga Island near Mactan. Lapulapu had several rivals. Bitadlok was Lapulapu's most aggressive rival. Like Lapulapu, Bitadlok was noted far and wide for his great courage and prowess. 

It was a time-honored custom among the pre-Spanish Filipinos that a young blade should win a woman's hand not only with sweet nothings but with a display of courage and prowess in a duel with his rival. 

So it was ceremoniously announced to all and sundry in the island kingdom of Ulangga by the village criers of Rajah Kusgano that on a certain day after the dapdap trees had flowered, Lapulapu and Bitadlok would fight it out for the hand and heart of his beauteous daughter and heiress, Bulakna.

Lapulapu's other rivals, apparently believing that discretion was the better part of valor, had decided against participating in the contest. Many people, coming from as far as Bohol and Leyte, journeyed to Ulangga Island in their outriggers to witness "the battle of the century." Even the rajahs and lakans of Butuan and Sikijod (Siquijor) eagerly came to Ulangga to see Lapulapu in action. They also came to see and admire the well-known beauty of Bulakna.

But shortly before the eagerly-awaited joust, word came to Lapulapu, the ruler of Mactan, that to Cebu - the kingdom of Rajah Humabon - had come “white people'' whom his Cebuano adversary welcomed and befriended. And to add insult to injury, another of Lapulapu’s arch-enemies, Zula, came from Humabon to demand tribute for Magellan in the name of the King of Spain. Lapulapu’s blood boiled. He turned down the demand for tribute and challenged the "intruders" to physical combat. 

The bloody battle of Mactan followed, resulting in the defeat of the Spaniards and the death of their brave leader, Magellan. Bitadlok sided with Lapulapu and was in the thick of the fight—to impress Bulakna and her father. Lapulapu did not know about his rival's gallantry until much later. "But Magellan immediately killed him with the same bamboo spear which the latter had hurled mightily at the captain, leaving the deadly lance in the Indian's body,” Pigafetta wrote in his account of the battle of Mactan. The "Indian" was Bitadlok.

When he saw that Magellan had killed his rival, Lapulapu was furious. He rushed toward the wounded Magellan and finished him off with a pestle. Incidentally, before Pearl Harbor, the people of Mactan erected an awe-inspiring monument to Lapulapu at the Open City park, showing the Malayan warrior holding a pestle. 

After the bloody encounter with the Spaniard, the legend concludes, the inhabitants of Mactan Ulangga, Santa Rosa, and other neighboring islands, held a double celebration: Magellan's defeat and death, and the royal wedding of Lapulapu and Bulakna in the richly-decorated panting or palace of Rajah Kusgano.”

Damiana, Eugenio L. (1996). Philippine Folk Literature: The Legends Volume III (p. 25-26). Office of Research Coordination, University of the Philippines

[tlatollotl]

Initially, it was books that led Fernando Rodriguez Delgado to his interest in cacao. Today Rodriguez runs Chocolate Macondo, a café that specializes in ancient preparations of cacao, but prior to that he was a bookseller, fanatical about reading and fascinated by the history of Mexico.

The day that he came across the Florentine Codex, a 16th-century manuscript documenting Mesoamerican culture, was an important one: it would eventually spark his countrywide search to discover the traditions of cacao and seek out ingredients, the names of which he only knew in Nahuatl. Rodriguez didn’t speak this native language of Mexico, so trying to work out the recipes for cacao drinks he found in the codex was no easy task.

“They put mecaxochitl [in the cacao drink],” Rodriguez told us during a recent visit to his café. “But what is mecaxochitl?” he added with a laugh.

Rodriguez’s kind face revealed a little glint in his eye as he remembered his multilingual search for ingredients for a cacao drink referred to as atlaquetzalli, or “precious water,” in the ancient codex.

“We dedicated ourselves to finding the recipe. We thought it was unique,” continued Rodriguez.

It turned out, however, that all of the different cacao drinks infused with any combination of herbs, fruits and spices were referred to by the common name of atlaquetzalli in the Florentine Codex, regardless of the extra ingredients added to the cacao water. The codex was an ethnographic study written by the Spanish Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún. The study, which was conducted in partnership with his indigenous students, documents the cosmology, rituals and way of life of the Mexica people. While written with the motive of converting the indigenous Mexicans to Catholicism, it is now an important document for understanding how native Mexicans lived and saw the world before the conquest worked to remove many of the ancient traditions.

As we sat in the Chocolate Macondo café, sipping on warm cacao drinks infused with hoja santa (a fragrant herb), pepper and chiles, we were just a five-minute drive away from the ancient city of Teotihuacan, revered by the Mexica people as the Birthplace of the Gods.

The proximity of the mighty Pyramid of the Sun and Moon to this café full of books about ancient Mexico, traditional clay chocolate pots and volcanic rock grinding stones, made every sip of our spicy cacao drink feel like a connection to Mexico’s past.

“We feel that our work is to restore and reconnect to the use of cacao here in the Central Mexican Plateau,” explained Rodriguez, whose interest in cacao took him across Mexico to discover more about how the ingredient was being used countrywide.

His travels led him to the discovery that in Southern Mexico cacao was consumed in traditional Mesoamerican ways (grinding down pure cacao beans and mixing it with water), while in central Mexico, the heartland of the Mexica and the area that took the biggest brunt of the Spanish conquest, the traditions had been lost and replaced with “European customs,” such as combining cacao or even cocoa solids with milk and chocolate bars that barely contained any cacao.

So, deciding to do his part in restoring these traditions, he bought a cacao grinder. Rodriguez would grind the cacao beans for a while and then the grinder would get stuck. He would leave it for a few days before trying again, but the same would happen. This went on for a year until one day it suddenly worked, and he was inspired to play his part in reintroducing traditional cacao products to Central Mexico. The cacao grinder has continued to grind the cacao – which comes from the jungles of Chiapas – into powder to this day.

Initially, Rodriguez worked with his brother, who is an herbalist, making bars of chocolate with different herbs and spices. However, realizing that they couldn’t compete with the big-name chocolate makers, they turned their hand to something more unique: the “precious water.”

Now, some eight years since making their first cacao drinks, the family has traveled around the country sharing these traditional Mesoamerican spiced cacao concoctions at festivals and fairs. Alongside the drinks, they often offer performances of traditional Mexica music and dance. For Rodriguez, “there is a historical, cultural and scientific reason” for their work.

Chocolate Macondo has made packs of their different chocolate drinks, which are for sale in powder form. If a customer falls in love with Chocolate Macondo’s special creations such as the warming Quetzalpapalotl drink infused with ginger, rosemary and cinnamon or the uplifting Tlexochitl with damiana flowers and mint, they can buy the ready-made formula to recreate it at home.

The café in which we sat has been open for two years, and according to Arjelia Rodriguez Rojas, Fernando’s daughter, they have had visitors from all over the world, “even some who left comments in Arabic and other languages,” in the visitor book that sits open, full of glowing reviews.

The café sells vegetarian tamales too, made by a chef in Mexico City. Rodriguez’s research led him to discover that across many parts of the country, cacao and corn were often consumed together.

“So, it made sense to sell tamales,” he said.

And the combination of the cacao drinks with the tamales does indeed work incredibly well, especially on the cool, cloudy morning that we sat in the cozy café.

Chocolate Macondo is very much a family business. Rather than industrialize and expand, they have preferred to continue making their chocolate drinks and products by hand. They are, however, looking to start making beauty products, like shampoos and soaps made from a base of cacao, and they are also planning to expand by opening up more cafés.

In keeping with their desire to contribute to culture, the family also offers a Pulque and Cacao tour for those interested in sampling another of Mexico’s Mesoamerican tipples. The tour starts at the café where participants learn about cacao and try the different drinks, discovering the herbal creations of Chocolate Macondo. Next, they will head to the fields nearby where agave is grown and harvested to make pulque. For those who want a more spiritual option, the pulque section of the tour can be replaced with a trip to a local temazcal (Mesoamerican sweat lodge) to partake in a ritual ceremony with a local shaman.

Whether you want to take a tour or simply imbibe some drinks rich in flavor and history, make sure you take a trip to Chocolate Macondo on your way to or from the mighty Teotihuacan pyramids.

[newwitchiness]

A List of Herbs and Spices

Acerola

African Bird Pepper

Agar Agar

Agrimony

Alfalfa

Alkanet

Alliums

Allspice

Aloe Vera

Angelica

Anise

Annatto

Arrowroot

Asafoetida

Ashwagandha

Arnica

Astragalus

Balm Of Gilead

Barberry

Barley

Basil

Bayberry

Bearberry

Bee Balm

Bee Pollen

Beet Root 

Beth Root

Benzoin

Bilberry

Birthwort

Blackberry

Black Cohosh

Black Haw

Bladderwrack

Blessed Thistle

Blue Cohosh

Blue Flag

Blue Vervain

Blue Violet

Boldo

Boneset

Borage

Boswellia Serrata

Buchu

Buckthorn

Buckwheat 

Bupleurum

Burdock

Burnett

Butcher’s Broom

Butternut 

Cabbage

Calamus

California Poppy

Calendula

Canadian Snakeroot

Camphor

Caraway

Carob

Cascara Sagrada

Caster Oil

Catmint/Catnip

Cat’s Claw

Cayenne Pepper

Celandine

Celery

Centaury

Chamomile,German

Chamomile, Roman

Chaparral

Chaste Berry

Chervil

Chia

Chickweed

Chicory

Chipotle

Chives

Chrysanthemum

Cilantro 

Cinnamon

Cinquefoil

Citric Acid

Clary 

Clay

Cleavers

Clove

Club Moss

Codonopsis

Colicroot

Coltsfoot

Comfrey

Coneflower

Copal Oro

Coptis

Coriander

Cornflower

Corn Silk

Couch Grass

Cowslip

Cramp Bark

Cranesbill 

Cubeb

Cumin

Curly Dock

Damiana

Damson

Dandelion

Devils Claw

Devils Club

Dill

Dong Quai

Dragons Blood

Dock

Dulse

Echinacea

Elder

Elecampane

Eleuthero

Epazote

Eucalyptus

Eyebright

False Unicorn Root

Fennel

Fenugreek

Feverfew

Feverwort

Figwort

Flax, Flaxseed

Frankincense

Fuller’s Earth

Galangal

Garlic

Gentian

Ginger

Ginkgo

Ginseng

Goat’s Rue

Goldenrod

Goldenseal

Gotu Kola

Grapeseed

Gravel Root

Greater Burnet

Great Mullein

Green Tea

Grindelia

Ground Ivy

Guarana

Gymnema

Hawthorn

Heartsease

Henbane

Henna 

Hibiscus

Honeysuckle

Hops

Horehound, Black

Horehound, White

Horse Chestnut

Horseradish 

Horsetail

Hydrangea

Hyssop

Irish Moss

Jasmine

Jewelweed

Jimsonweed

Juniper

Kava Kava Root

Kelp

Kudzu

Lady’s-mantle

Lady’s Slipper

Lavender

Lemon Balm

Lemon Verbena

Lemongrass

Licorice

Liferoot

Line

Linden

Linseed

Lobelia

Lomatium

Lovage

Lungwort

Lychii Berry

Mace

Madder

Mandrake

Maidenhair Fern

Maidenhair Tree

Mallow

Marigold

Marjoram

Marshmallow

Meadowsweet

Milk Thistle

Mistletoe

Motherwort

Mugwort

Muira Pauma

Mulberry

Mullein

Mustard

Myrrh

Neem

Nettle

Nutmeg

Oats

Olive Leaf

Onion

Oregano

Oregon Grape Root

Orris Root

Osha

Papaya Leaf

Paprika

Parsley

Passion Flower

Patchouli 

Pau D’arco

Peppermint

Pennyroyal

Peony

Periwinkle

Peruvian Bark

Pipsissewa

Plantain

Pleurisy Root

Poke Root

Poplar

Prickly Ash

Primrose

Psyllium 

Pukeweed

Purple Coneflower

Purslane

Quassia

Queen Of The Meadow

Radish Seed

Raspberry

Red Clover

Rehmannia

Reishi Mushroom

Rheumatism Root

Rhubarb

Rose/Rose Hips

Rosemary

Rue

Safflower

Saffron

Sage

Salt (Sea)

Saint John's Wort

Sarsaparilla

Sassafras

Savory

Saw Palmetto

Schizandra

Self-heal

Senna 

Sesame

Shavegrass

Sheep’s Sorrel

Shepards Purse

Skullcap

Skunk Cabbage

Slippery Elm

Soapbark

Soapwort

Southern Wood

Spikenard

Spirulina

Squaw Vine

Squawroot

Stevia 

Stickwort

Stillingia

Stone Root

Strawberry Leaf

Suma

Sweet Cicely 

Sweet Sumac

Sweet Violet

Sweetgrass

Szechuan

Tansy

Tarragon

Thuja

Tea

Tea Tree Oil

Thyme

Tonka Bean

Tribulus Terrestris

Turkey Rhubarb

Turmeric

Unicorn Root, False

Usnea

Uva Ursi

Valerian

Vanilla

Vervain

Vitex/Chaste Tree

Violet

White Willow

Wild Yam

Willow

Wintergreen

Witch Hazel

Wood Betony

Wormwood

Xanthan Gum

Yam 

Yarrow

Yellow Doc

Yerba Mate

Yerba Santa

Yohimbe Bark

Yucca

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[sancipriano]

✠ SPELL FOR GLAMOUR WITH SAN CIPRIANO ✠

Perform during the Waxing Moon on the Day in the Hour of Venus

Perform a ritual bath and stand to perform the ritual, ideally in the center of a ceremonial Circle of your choosing. Breathe deeply multiple times until relaxed and ready.

✠ MATERIALS ✠ • Anise • Damiana • Rose Petals • Purple candle • Saint Cyprian Oil #2 • Photo of yourself • Pen of Art • Burin of Art

✠ PROCEDURE ✠ Arrange the altar in the circle with the statues of San Cipriano and Santa Justina with a glass of water to his right. With your Burin of Art inscribe your name on the Candle in a spiral fashion starting at the Top and finishing at the Bottom Dress the candle with the Anise, Damiana, Rose Petals and Saint Cyprian Oil Take the photo of yourself, anoint it with Saint Cyprian Oil on the corners and center, write the petition below on the back with your Pen of Art. Light a charcoal and burn the Anise, Damiana, Rose Petals as incense.  Pass the photo through the smoke.   Light the candle and pass the photo over it. Then recite the prayer...

✠ PRAYER ✠ San Cipriano put me in your hand In my grief don’t let me fall to the ground, And raise my humble prayers to heaven.

Virtuous San Cipriano Today I request your special help To raise my requests to the high And risking with burning before him San Cipriano make my pleas to the Lord And get them granted.

✠ PETITION ✠ Mighty and very high Lord,  you who renders adoration to Angles and Saints Today I your creature Christine ask You humbly, Bless me with beauty inside and out Let my heart be pure and pretty to You And let my appearance be pretty to my fellow Humans. Let my voice sound sweet and melodic to the ears of all who hear it Make me as the trees planted near streams, the ones that do not wither. And like the lilies of the field, may the beauty of the righteous always grow Lord, So when humans judge by the sight and sound of me They see and hear the Glory of Your Creation, radiating outward from my heart. Grant me a heart free of Vanity, one that radiates beauty from within, and I’ll always sing songs of praise in your name. Amen.

✠ PSALTER ✠ Psalm 139:14 I will give thanks unto Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are Thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

Place the photo under the candle face up and let the candle burn down.

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[historestudiante]

Revolución agrícola y sus implicaciones en la interpretación del desarrollo cultural mesoamericano

La agricultura ha sido ampliamente estudiada por su impacto en el desarrollo de la civilización, al grado de que autores como Gordon Childe la han calificado como una auténtica revolución.

El desarrollo de la agricultura se puede identificar mediante diversos indicadores, ya sea directos o indirectos. Childe nos hablaba acerca del crecimiento demográfico que supondría el acceso a fuentes relativamente estables de alimento, por lo que un incremento en el número de restos humanos encontrados es de utilidad para localizar grupos humanos que comenzaron a domesticar plantas.

Otro indicio está en las osamentas, ya que las primeras producciones agrícolas no eran suficientes para cubrir los requerimientos alimentarios de una población creciente, mientras que el abandono del nomadismo se refleja en un cambio en el desgaste de las extremidades inferiores.

El empleo de tecnología agrícola es un indicador que nos permite rastrear el avance de esta revolución. Los implementos para la molienda del grano, así como las herramientas para la siembra y cosecha resultan de interés.

Cabe señalar que la transición del nomadismo al sedentarismo no se dió de manera automática cuando se comenzó a desarrollar la agricultura, sino que hubo momentos en que la caza y la recolección coexistían con esta disciplina incipiente. También se presentaron formas alternativas como la agricultura de azada, donde el cuidado y abono de la tierra eran mínimos y compatibles con una vida nómada.

La domesticación misma de plantas es un proceso, que mediante la selección y cruza de las mejores variedades, el cuidado de los cultivos contra plagas y animales, así como el abono e irrigación, permitió que los especímenes se desarrollarán mucho mejor que en estado salvaje, resultando más benéficas para el consumo humano.

Debido a lo anterior, el estudio de los restos vegetales resulta de gran utilidad para elaborar un modelo del desarrollo de la agricultura. Se han identificado algunos ancestros de las especies vegetales más comunes en nuestros platos, como el teosinte, antepasado del maíz que consumimos actualmente y cuya evolución se aceleró gracias a su domesticación.

Los estudios han permitido identificar los inicios de la agricultura en Mesoamérica aproximadamente a finales del Pleistoceno y principios del Holoceno, alrededor del 10000 a. C. , gracias al hallazgo de polen de chile, teosinte y cacao, así como morteros. Esto sentó las bases para el comienzo del proceso de sedentarización y creación de centros urbanos, que se concretaría hasta varios milenios después, cerca del 1500 a.C.

Sitios como la Cueva de Santa Marta, en Chiapas, México, resultan de interés por ser los hallazgos más antiguos de estos elementos. El lugar como tal no daría lugar a una gran urbe, pero fue de importancia durante el período de transición entre la vida nómada y la sedentaria.

Cabe resaltar que entre las primeras especies vegetales encontradas están aquellas que poseen un efecto estimulante del sistema nervioso, tales como el chile, el cacao y la damiana. Esta última es utilizada como afrodisíaco en la medicina tradicional herbolaria. La presencia de plantas estimulantes es menor que en otras regiones, como Sudamérica.

El comercio es otro de los beneficiarios de la revolución agrícola. No sólo se exportaba el excedente de la producción por una variedad de bienes, sino que, en tiempos de guerra, una manera de cerrar alianzas era mediante el intercambio, resultando en un mayor desarrollo económico y cultural para la región. Ello se puede identificar en restos de herramientas elaboradas con materiales que no son autóctonos.

Mesoamérica consistía en un mosaico de culturas, con ciertos elementos comunes que las relacionaban. El estudio de la agricultura nos permite conocer las redes de intercambio e influencia que existían mucho antes de las grandes ciudades del Clásico. Es una muestra de que tanto la migración como el comercio han estado moldeando la cosmovisión y la cosmogonía de los habitantes de la región desde hace milenios.

Fuentes:

-Acosta Ochoa, G. (2017) Early agricultural modes of production in Mesoamerica. En R. Rosenswig y J. Cunningham (Ed.) Modes of production in archaeology. University Press of Florida.

-Childe, G. (1936) Los orígenes de la civilización. Fondo de Cultura Económica.

[farehamwinecellar]

VegaFina Classic Perla Cigar – 1 Single Cigar

VegaFina Classic Perla Cigar – 1 Single Cigar

Flavour: Light to Medium Size: Perla Vitola de Galera: Length: 4  inches / 102 mms Ring Gauge / Width: 40 / 15.75 mms

  The VegaFina Classic Perla Cigar is a light to medium bodied, petit and elegant cigar produced in the Dominican Republic. This is a lovely small cigar perfect for when time is tight.

VegaFina cigars are produced at the famous Tabacalera de Garcia factory located in the town of La Romana in the Dominican Republic. It is the largest hand-made cigar factory in the world an employs more than five thousand people. The factory also produces Don Diego and Santa Damiana cigars as well many other well-known brands.

The VegaFina brand was established in 1998 and has since become one of the world’s best-selling and-made cigar brands. It takes its name from “Vegas Finas” which literally translates as “finest fields”.

The VegaFina Classic, or “White Line”, feature a luxurious, hand-selected Ecuadorian Connecticut Shade wrapper, which is golden-brown colour with a mild taste profile, and a flavourful combination of Dominican, Colombian and Honduran long filler tobaccos with an Indonesian binder. There is also a Corona, Short Robusto and Robusto in this range.

The VegaFina Classic Perla Cigar is characterised by a mild style with creamy notes, a nutty aftertaste, hints of pepper balanced against cedar, almond and coffee notes. Toasty, woody, dry finish.

Supplied from our humidor, each cigar is presented in a cellophane wrapper for freshness and protection.

Smoke time around 20 to 25 minutes. Great with a morning coffee.

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