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19th February 12, 09:23 AM
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Re: A Christian-Themed Tartan?
 Originally Posted by Ina Murison-McGowan
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GREEN: The colour Green is representative of Frankincense. Frankincense is made by cutting a tree named “Arbor Thurisfrom”. Practically Frankincense would be a familiar smell to baby Jesus as this would help getting the stable smelling better with all those animals in there with them. Frankincense is used as a perfume but mostly it was burned as sweet incense during worship. Aaron would burn Frankincense at the altar as a sweet offering to the Lord. Symbolically Frankincense represented the divinity of Christ because as mentioned Frankincense was burnt as an offering to God.
The colour of the sap of this tree is believed to be green.
RED: The colour red represents Myrrh. Although Myrrh, like Frankincense, is also the sap from a tree that is hardened and then used, unlike Frankincense which is sweet, has a bitter taste to it. It was also used as a perfume, an ingredient of holy ointments but it’s most practical use for Mary & Joseph would be its medical uses. Myrrh represents the bitter cup that Christ had to drink in suffering for our sins spilling his blood for us and the healing that his death brings.
The sap of this tree goes dark red when dried.
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I'm very curious about this, Frankinsense comes from the Boswellia tree , and yes cuttings are made on the bark, a light coloured resin exudes, which dries hard, which can be used as incense. Nowhere have I seen any reference to a green colour,indeed the actual resin is either slightly amber or clear.
It's perfectly possibly that “Arbor Thurisfrom” is another name for frankinsense, but the only reference I can find is one religious based sites, so perhaps they use that name instead of the more correct botanical one.
Myrhh comes from a thorny shrub Commiphora, and again the sap is collected and dried and is light yellow when new, and ages to a rich amber when aged, but it would hardly be called red.
I'm not meaning to dismiss the efforts of creating a special tartan,infact it's a nice idea to celebrate something special, but I can't find any references that use the red and green colours in association with frankinsense and myrhh.
I'd be happy to look at your references especially any that say that Frankinsense is green
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