Gold, frankincense, and myrrhuana
I swear I once had a multiple choice test at school with a question about this and one of the options was “gold, frankincense and weed”. One of my best friends sat next to me and we fucking lost it.
Religion class? In western Europe in most schools you can choose for an atheist approach so it’s more of an ethics class. However in catholic schools we were taught about the tales of the bible and christian values. (Actual values, not the bigots’ interpretations of those values.)
I mean, kind of.
A dude can suddenly talk to God through a burning bush, and then continues to talk to him face to face in a double layered tent he goes into after anointing himself and whenever he’s talking to God a cloud appears at the door? Sounds a lot like Herodotus talking about the Scythians anointing themselves, going into a tent, and burning cannabis inhaling the fumes…
And yet all the fun stuff has since been removed.
Do you have a source for that? I’d be interested.
I’ve suspected for a while given an 8th century BCE mention of an Assyrian anointing oil of olive oil, myrrh, and cannabis that the original recipe before Josiah’s reforms was similar, especially given the find linked above at Tel Arad, but I haven’t seen anything about pottery residue in Israelite or Judean sites.
It’s not so inappropriate; in the middle east you can just buy a waterpipe (bong) anywhere. It’s called a hookah or a shisha and it’s the standard way they smoke tobacco.
And weed they also smoke weed with it because yes it is a bong.
The tobacco was introduced to the Old World only in 16th century, so the only thing the Biblical Magi could smoke with their shisha in year 4 B.C. was weed.
Oh that’s goooood. Those parents were probably snickering and trying to not laugh out loud for the whole play. 11/10 - improved the whole evening for sure.
Proceeds the weedian - Nazareth
If that happened now you’d have social services and the cops harassing you.
