Tezos

Before the Sun Dries

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Description

Salvia officinalis Common names: Common Sage, Garden Sage, Culinary Sage Salvia comes from salvere, Latin for to save. The Romans considered it sacred to Jove and gathered it with ceremony. They burned it in temples before rituals and warriors consumed preparations of it before battle for courage and mental clarity. In the 17th century the Chinese traded three chests of tea for one chest of sage, which tells you everything about how two civilizations can look at the same leaf and see completely different value. There's a medieval proverb that shows up in Italian, English, and French with minor variations: why should a man die whilst sage grows in his garden. They planted it in cemeteries because the leaves take so long to wilt, longer than almost any other herb, and that slowness became a metaphor for how memory works. The surface of the leaf is covered in trichomes, tiny hair-like structures that produce the essential oils and give sage that pebbly texture, and those trichomes are also what makes water behave strangely on the surface, beading up instead of sliding off, holding on. If you eat sage leaves every day in May you will be granted immortality, according to an English folk belief that nobody has yet confirmed. © Corina Daniela Obertas Photography. All rights reserved. The purchase of this NFT grants the collector ownership of the token only. Full copyright, reproduction rights, and commercial usage rights remain exclusively with the artist. No part of this artwork may be reproduced, distributed, printed, licensed, or used for commercial purposes without prior written consent from the artist.

Traits

Tag

sage

Tag

salvia