Tobacco is the magic magic

Tobacco is the magic magic

Although we the ancient Maya religious etiquette understanding is not so comprehensive, but can say with certainty, tobacco in the early history of the mayan has been used in religious ceremonies. It DengNi camp in the pull of the religious ceremony has important position, hundreds of thousands of mayan will this old way kept intact so far. They grow tobacco, shelves will it dry, then use funnelform container stored up. These containers in the Curtis rule has been demonstrated before, they were to odd flora — a god and mushroom, tobacco and other rare items close connection important goddess.

Mayan is a chain-smoker, they in the town neighbours packaging cigars as trade goods. In the tobacco harvest season, the mayan people will hold tobacco-related ceremony. They gather the crops of the first leaf, roll into a cigar, wafer focused the sun make its light. Cigar was for the symbol of land ora god, ora god as if to sit quietly smoking, after the cigars to put a censer before the gods.

Now, to the gods of tobacco tributes already largely disappeared from the ceremony. However, in the Maya, folk tobacco left traces everywhere can be found: bull day New Year ceremony still contains these ancient element, such as ceremony with 13 placed a local gourd smoke; The local planting tobacco is considered to be against the evil god’s power; Saunders people still put magic magic due to tobacco, they put the tobacco powder in severe patients in the chest and face, Zar speed are the tobacco and tobacco appliance apparent if treasures, died with these things together in the dust.