Deeply fragrant and created with love…

 

Beautiful cakes of the finest incense ingredients … each stamped with a golden Ankh, the Egyptian key of life. Inspired by the Greco-Roman Mysteries of Isis, in which roses were filled with divine meaning and offered to the Goddess. I have always been fond of Apuleius' “Metamorphoses” and his descriptions of the Epiphany of Isis and her rites of initiation. -I imagine an incense like “Rose of Isis” smoldering on those ancient altars. It has been a wonderful meditation creating these  fragrant cakes of Oud Kyphi and Rose

 

 

Contains:

 

Oud Kyphi

Rose Damask Concrete

Yemeni  Myrrh

Benzoin

Dusted with Agarwood powder

 

Roses possess a certain hidden power.  In fact, even as far back as Ancient Egypt, the rose was a powerful symbol of love and beauty. The rose became incredibly important to the Egyptians as they believed it had both powerful healing and aphrodisiac properties.   

Perhaps the rose’s most important role in this ancient culture was its close association with the Egyptian Goddess, Isis.  The rose was her symbol and was often depicted alongside her, most predominantly within her temples at Thebes.

 

 

These special cakes are about 1” dia, hand formed and stamped with a golden Ankh. They come in a gold tin . This price is for .6 oz (about 8 cakes)

 

From Lucius Apuleius “Metamorphoses” (c.155 CE)

 

“When I had ended this prayer, and made known my needs to the Goddess, I fell asleep, and by and by appeared unto me a divine and venerable face, worshipped even by the Gods themselves. Then by little and little I seemed to see the whole figure of her body, mounting out of the sea and standing before me, and so I shall describe her divine appearance, if the poverty of my human speech will allow me, or her divine power give me eloquence to do so.

First she had a great abundance of hair, dispersed and scattered about her neck, on the crown of her head she wore many garlands interlaced with Roses, just above her brow was a disk in the form of a mirror, or resembling the light of the Moon, in one of her hands she bore serpents, in the other, blades of corn, her robe was of fine silk shimmering in divers colors, sometime yellow, sometime rose, sometimes flame -like.

…..Thus the divine shape breathing out the pleasant spice of fertile Arabia, spoke….”