— The plants that stand at the threshold between waking and dreaming, between the visible world and whatever waits just behind it. —
— Not a smudge. White sage clears; Imphepho calls. To burn Imphepho is to summon the amadlozi by name. The ancestors' preferred incense — they come to the smell. First plant-medicine revealed to Sangoma healers of South Africa.
— Read the full pillar →Una thou art called, oldest of herbs. Older than written memory, companion of the Japanese Yamabushi, the Welsh midwives, the Hildegardian monks. She does not cross the threshold of the dream for you — she holds the lamp while you do.
A seed can drift in saltwater for over two years before germinating. The same seed Zulu sangoma use to dream the ancestors has colonised every tropical shore by ocean current. Entada rheedii is inscribed in the patience of long travel — and teaches accordingly.
Her Nahuatl name means 'that which is offered.' Burned for Tlaloc the rain god. Carved on the statue of Xochipilli the Prince of Psychoactive Flowers. Detected in the incense burners of the Templo Mayor. And the secret of the Aztec royal drink Xocoatl — the first ceremonial cacao. Yauhtli is the plant of sacred fog.
This cluster belongs to the Living portal — INFUSE's grammar for speaking of the world as a territory rather than a machine.
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