Spices and perfumes – driving forces of humans
Spices and perfumes – driving forces of humans Spices and perfumes – driving forces of humans
Families of good spices Spices are a cultural achievement of humans like music, dance and writing. Drive for spices was the memory of diversity tasted as gatherers before the monotony of crop feeding.
Silphion –extinct aphrodisiac & spice The Town of Cyrene in the N African province of Cyrenaica obtained its wealth from selling this tall member of the Apiaeceae , now extinct & perhaps related to recent Ferula asa-foetida (Persia, Afgh.) – the stinking asant or the devil’s dirt Cut in upper part of perennial root releases latex that concentrates in 3 days to resin-like lumps. These are used as spicy food add., aphrodisiacs & also was pop. contraceptive The shape of the silphion seeds was like shown on this ancient coin. Surprisingly, we do not find anything like that in nature, but in the ancient myths – a symbol of the heart
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Silphion <strong>–</strong>extinct aphrodisiac & spice<br />
The Town <strong>of</strong> Cyrene in the N African<br />
province <strong>of</strong> Cyrenaica obtained its wealth<br />
from selling this tall member <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Apiaeceae , now extinct & perhaps related<br />
to recent Ferula asa-foetida (Persia,<br />
Afgh.) <strong>–</strong> the stinking asant or the devil’s dirt<br />
Cut in upper part <strong>of</strong><br />
perennial root releases<br />
latex that concentrates in 3<br />
days to resin-like lumps.<br />
These are used as spicy<br />
food add., aphrodisiacs &<br />
also was pop.<br />
contraceptive<br />
The shape <strong>of</strong> the<br />
silphion seeds was<br />
like shown on this<br />
ancient coin.<br />
Surprisingly, we do<br />
not find anything like<br />
that in nature, but in<br />
the ancient myths <strong>–</strong> a<br />
symbol <strong>of</strong> the heart
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