At noon, the clergy and devotees praise the goddess by singing holy songs and lighting Incense (dhup) and karpur (camphor).
incense | Incense of India | Incense | ''Clockwise from upper left:'' Thurible, cup from inside thurible, incense boat, charcoal |
The Biblical incense frankincense was probably an extract from the resin of the tree Boswellia sacra.
Somali traders in the region for centuries transported goods such as aromatic woods, gum and incense from the interior of the Horn of Africa to and from the coastal port to conduct trade with Indian, Persian and Arab merchants.
The liturgy is almost always performed in front of an object or objects of veneration and accompanied by offerings of light, incense, and food.
In China and Japan, coffins made from the scented, decay-resistant wood of cypress, sugi, thuja and incense-cedar are in high demand.
Since then and throughout the rest of the 19th century, Dihua Street has been an important centre for commerce in Taiwanese products and produce such as Chinese medicinal herbs, fabrics, incense materials, and for the post-processing of Taiwanese tea.
Frankincense or a prepared incense, which in countries in the Arabian Peninsula is known as bukhoor, is placed on top of hot charcoal inside an incense burner or censer.
Cotton was the chief crop of the regions of southern Gujarat, Khandesh and Berar while cotton yarn and cloth was exported from Bharoch and incense and perfumes from the ports of Thana and Saimur.
"We have determined to establish publicly in this Mother City of Rome (in hac alma Urbe) an uninterrupted course of prayer in such wise that in the different churches (he specifies the various categories), on appointed days, there be observed the pious and salutary devotion of the Forty Hours, with such an arrangement of churches and times that, at every hour of the day and night, the whole year round, the incense of prayer shall ascend without intermission before the face of the Lord".
Gonesh is a North American brand of incense, candle, and fragrance products owned by Genieco, Inc. in Chicago, USA.
Honey, David B., Incense at the Altar: Pioneering Sinologists and the Development of Classical Chinese Philology, 2001, pp. 152-66.
Among other peoples also, including the Kwakwaka'wakw and Nuu-chah-nulth, the seeds are burned as an incense at funerals and chewed by singers to ease their throats.
According to the Talmud, the House of Avtinas, which compounded the incense, kept the identity of maaleh ashan a secret which became lost following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE.
The Massa Candida were 300 early Christian martyrs from Utica who chose death rather than offering incense to Roman Gods, in approximately 253-60 AD.
Newport also wrote a manuscript treatise, De Scientiâ Dei, preserved in the library at Salamanca; and George Oliver conjectured that he was the author of A Golden Censer full with the pretious Incense to the Praisers of Saints, Paris, 1654, dedicated to Queen Henrietta Maria.
Bursera graveolens, a tree species native to South America, used for incense, aromatic oil, and indigenous medicine
The Räuchermann (diminutive Räuchermännchen), erzgebirgisch Raachermannel is an "incense smoker", the invention of toy makers in the Ore Mountains and used to burn down cone incense, known as Räucherkerzchen.
In 2006, "Holy Incense" was used as the theme song for the movie Prince of the Himalayas, directed by Sherwood Hu.
It was offered on the specialized incense altar in the time when the Tabernacle was located in the First and Second Jerusalem Temples.
It has the remarkable behavior of ovipositing only in recently burnt incense-cedar (Calocedrus), red cedar (Thuja) or juniper (Juniperus); the wood is often still smoldering when the wasp is laying its eggs, and the larvae develop in the wood.
Wen Zhenheng (文震亨): Treatise on Superfluous Things/ Incense and Tea (长物志 Zhang Wu Zhi), 1621.
Their name is derived from a Hindu religious festival which takes place every year on the banks of the river Ganges where thousands of people burn incense and candles on small reed boats and float them down the river at night, the boats carrying their wishes and prayers.
Different artifacts such as a brass incense burner, timber foo dogs, stoneware headrest, porcelain plate, and bronze mirror can also be found in the hotel.
They include many typical wooden Ore Mountain products such as Christmas pyramids, wooden Räuchermann incense smokers, nutcrackers, wooden figures (Christmas Angels, miners, turned animals, etc.), Christmas mountain scenes (Weihnachtsberge) and Ore Mountain candle arches.
Substances that are commonly used in Hindu worship include ghee, incense, kumkum, Marigold, milk, sandalwood, tulsi and vibhuti.