Cannabis in the Holy Anointing Oil?
"Exodus 30:23"
Exodus 30:23 Take thou also unto thee
principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon
half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus
two hundred and fifty shekels, 24 And of cassia five hundred shekels, after
the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin: 25 And thou shalt make
it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the
apothecary : it shall be an holy anointing oil.
The original Hebrew for calamus, is Kaneh-bosem or Qaneh (Kaw-naw) Bosem.
Some translations have this as “fragrant cane” or “aromatic cane.”
Some researchers have argued that this is actually Sweet Cane or Sugar
Cane, although the term sweet does not occur in the original manuscripts.
In the Hebrew terms such as Elohim (Pronounced El- Oh- Heem ) is
rendered plural. So in the Hebrew Kaneh-bosem is also plural.
The singular then is rendered Kaneh-bos.
Kaneh-Bos sounds remarkably close to the modern day word Cannabis.
Could it be that cannabis was the plant given by God to be used in the Holy
Anointing Oil?
Cannabis has certainly been cultivated since the beginning of recorded
history. Its uses for rope, sails and rigging into ancient times are
well documented.
Imagine the amount of cannabis rope it would have taken to construct the
Temple of Solomon. What other way was there to construct ropes at that time,
which could lift the weights of not only the Temple of Solomon, but in fact,
the Pyramids themselves.
Cannabis was thought to be an Indo-European word specifically of
Scythian Origin. The Scythians were largely responsible for the spread
of cannabis into Europe. The Scythe, was an invention of the Scythians, used
for the harvest of cannabis. This has come to us in the legends of the
“Grim Reaper”
Herodotus, an early Greek ethnographer, in the 5th Century BC wrote of the
Scythians and their use of cannabis.
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