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Here's your host, Dr. Jack Logan.

Welcome to the ancient tradition.

I'm your host, Jack Logan.

It's great to have you with me today.

We've got a lot of great stuff.

A quick little announcement that I wanted to make you

aware of two audio recordings that we've uploaded to our sister podcast, the ancient tradition

audio writ. So if you're interested, you can find an audio recording of the Osiris myth.

And you can also find an audio recording of the pseudipycrapherful text, Joseph and Azeneth.

We talked about that in our previous episode, and we're going to talk about it again today.

With that, let's kind of jump right in.

In our previous episode, we discussed some of the gifts of the sacred tree.

And one of those gifts was the sap of the tree, that special ointment,

that in the ancient literature is referred to as oil or dew or honey.

And this ointment was smeared on the hero to soothe and heal the wounds that he incurred in his battle with the evil dragon.

In the ancient literature, the

smearing of the sap of the tree on the body or the head or the forehead is referred to as

anointing, to anointing the hero or an anointing. In the ancient world, almost all kings

were anointed with his special healing ointment, which was most often a special concoction or a mixture of oil, usually of olive oil, and then fragrances from trees.

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