If you liked this story, share it with other people. As a young man, Djalma Moreira Lima used to walk throughout the rainforest to collect copal resin. He would wander around for hours looking for ...

Smoke represents both the air and fire elements. It is important to many Indigenous spiritual rituals for its cleansing properties. Various herbs and resins are burned to create this sacred smoke, ...

The Field Museum in Chicago and the Foundation for Scientific Advancement reported that sediment-encased maturation of pine resin produces a hardened, translucent substance that closely mimics natural ...

"This [Día de Los Muertos] is quintessentially Mexican; it has to smell Mexican. My family is buried in this soil, with these trees and plants and rain. I want to connect to them and they are part of ...