Cinnamon

Esoteric properties:

Cinnamon (Cinamomum zeylanicum) is of the male gender, it is associated with the Sun, the element of fire and the goddesses Venus and Aphrodite.

Cinnamon promotes the strengthening of spirituality, success, healing, increases sexual desire and is also associated with protection and passion.

History

The use of spices began to become popular at least since the Roman Empire, and soon they came to be considered even more valuable than their weight in gold, due to their distant and exotic origin: the Indies, a place where Greco-Roman civilizations had a relationship since were conquered by Alexander the Great.

From there came the jewels, spices and resins, guarded by beings that Pliny the Elder would describe in detail:

In the 7th century in his Etymologies, Saint Isidore described some of those eastern and southern beings:

In Rome, new exotic elements from the Indies led to increasing refinement and the birth of luxury in Western culture as we know it today.

Cinnamon, myrrh, aloe, frankincense and other spices were even used to embalm their dead, a practice they had inherited from the Egyptians.

It is said that Nero confiscated all the cinnamon from the Roman patricians to burn it at the funeral of his wife Poppaea.

“Aromatics”, as spices and other aromatic herbs were known, were considered sacred and were used daily in religious sermons and sacrifices.