Frankincense was a fancy incense-like substance, burned for the scent. Myhrr was used in fucking EMBALMING. They were both fucking weird ass presents to give a baby, but they were also expensive and generally hard to acquire.
Which of frankincense and myhrr is more pricey? What even are they, respectively?
Submitted 3 days ago by sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz to [deleted]
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Red_October@piefed.world 2 days ago
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 2 days ago
Myhrr was also used in incense, balms, etc. They were great gifts for anyone for the reasons you listed, especially during a time when people of that nationality had been ordered to travel possibly great distances and you believed the people you were giving the gifts to would be fugitives.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 days ago
Both of them are just types of hardened tree resins, from two different types of trees that smell pleasant. I dont know what they were worth in biblical times, but they’re not quite as valuable today unless you sell essential oils or make perfumes.
bklyn@piefed.social 2 days ago
hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 3 days ago
news.wfu.edu/…/gifts-brought-to-the-baby-jesus-re…
Many estimate that at that time, translated into modern money, frankincense would have cost $500 per pound. Myrrh would have cost $4,000 per pound.
gold cost ~$4500 per pound on the date this article was published. the actual quantities offered as gifts are not included in the gospel.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 3 days ago
Frankincense and myrrh are incenses you would burn in your house if you want to pollute your air with micro-particles and make your house smell like a middle-eastern souk.
sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
But which is technialm more valuable?
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 3 days ago
I only answered your question about what they are. I have no idea how much they’re worth. Probably too much if you don’t live in the middle-east, as you’d have to import that stuff I guess.