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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ G. Elliot Smith (N/A)

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. ❋ G. Elliot Smith (N/A)

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. ❋ G. Whitfield Ray (N/A)

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 ❋ 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. ❋ G. Elliot Smith (N/A)