incense-tree

The Ponta de Isabel showed the passeio, or promenade, with two brick ruins: its “five hundred fruit-trees of various descriptions” have gone the way of the camphor, the tea-shrub, and the incense-tree, said to have been introduced by the Jesuits.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

The use of cattle not merely as meat for the sustenance of the living but as the usual and most characteristic life-giving food for the dead naturally played a part in conferring divinity upon the cow, just as an analogous relationship made incense a holy substance and was responsible for the personification of the incense-tree as a goddess.

The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith

The animation of the incense-tree by the Great Mother, for the reasons which I have already expounded, [275] formed the link of her identification with the pearl, which probably acquired its magical reputation in the same region.

The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith

The medicine-man, who sleeps apart from the "common herd" under an incense-tree, hears the din, and, quickly donning his head-dress, hurries down to the scene.

Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America G. Whitfield Ray

The Ponta de Isabel showed the passeio, or promenade, with two brick ruins: its "five hundred fruit-trees of various descriptions" have gone the way of the camphor, the tea-shrub, and the incense-tree, said to have been introduced by the

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

[59: As I shall explain later (see page 38), the idea of the divinity of the incense-tree was a result of, and not the reason for, the practice of incense-burning.

The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith