An Avatar Christmas – page 8
I feel like, if Tabitha could get away with it, she’d dress the kids up like royalty all the time. Heck, between her and her Dad, they probably figured out how to synthesize precious metals and jewels ages ago and totally forgot about it ‘cos it was so boring.
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Honestly, the only reason why they aren’t doing a nativity scene is because there’s only one Jesus, so Tabitha couldn’t get both her “prefect little babies” into the crib added to the scene.
Smash cut to Tabitha building two identical mangers right next to each other 🙂
I just noticed the hover-text. Frankincense is a whitish tree gum or an oil, while Myrrh is a reddish tree gum. Both were used as ingredients in perfumes, though probably not the same ones. They were rare, and thus expensive, kind of like gold. Not sure what use commoner’s in those days would had with gold, frankincense or myrrh, beyond selling it to live without money worries for, depending on the quantity, potentially the next decade.
Your comment made me realize I hadn’t previously thought about what Joseph and Mary did with the gold, frankincense, and myrrh. I’m fairly sure the Bible doesn’t specify – just now I skimmed the beginning of each gospel, and it looks like only Matthew even mentions the wise men with the gifts.
Yeah, next time it comes up in Christmas-Themed Trivia Night, you can impress your friends by knowing that -despite what nativity sets would have you think- the Wise Men were a completely separate incident from the whole Birth In The Stable event.
EDIT: There’s actually a previous Christmas page where Ichabod goes off about that, but I can’t remember when it was.
Oh, the three Wise Men were MONTHS after the birth, and could have been a full year afterwards. But, given that MauveCloud points out that only ONE of the gospels even mentions them, and that the gifts can be interpreted as symbolism (Gold=King/Royalty, Fankincense=Church/Holy, Myrrh=Primitive embalming/corpse scent mitigation)…
Yeah, they was certainly added as creative licence. Or else none of the three saw a problem gifting Corpse Scent Mitigation Incense to a newly born baby, aka, to the parents of a newly born baby.
…which would actually explain what they were used for. After all, throwing the “gifts” at the “giftors” for insinuating their newborn’s death right after their birth isn’t exactly unreasonable.