Sea Salt

 

 

 

Human beings have used canning and artificial refrigeration for the preservation of food for approximately the last two hundred years. However, in the millennia before then, salt provided the best-known food preservative, especially for meat, The harvest of salt from the surface of Xiechi Lake near Yuncheng in Shanxi, China dates back to at least 6000 BC, making it one of the oldest verifiable saltworks,

Another very ancient saltworks operation (rivaling the Xiechi Lake in China for oldest) has been discovered at the Poiana Slatinei archaeological site next to a salt spring in Lunca, Neamt County, Romania. Evidence indicates that Neolithic people of the Precucuteni Culture were boiling the salt-laden spring water through the process of briquetage to extract the salt as far back as 6050 BC, The salt extracted from this operation may have had a direct correlation to the rapid growth of this society's population soon after its initial production began,

Salt was included among funereal offerings found in ancient Egyptian tombs from the third millennium BC, as were salted birds and salt fish, From about 2800 BC, the Egyptians began exporting salt fish to the Phoenicians in return for Lebanon cedar, glass, and the dye Tyrian purple; the Phoenicians traded Egyptian salt fish and salt from North Africa throughout their Mediterranean trade empire,44

Along the Sahara, the Tuareg maintain routes especially for the transport of salt by Azalai (salt caravans). In 1960, the caravans still transported some 15,000 tons of salt, but this trade has now declined to roughly a third of this figure,

Salzburg, Hallstatt, and Hallein lie on the river Salzach in central Austria, within a radius of no more than 17 kilometres. Salzach literally means "salt water" and Salzburg "salt city", both taking their names from the Germanic root for salt, salz. Hallstatt literally means "salt town" and Hallein "saltwork", taking their names from hal(l)-, a root for salt found in Celtic, Greek, and Egyptian. The root hal(l)- also gave us Gaul, the Roman exonym for the Celts, Halle and Schwﾃ､bisch Hall in Germany, Halych in Ukraine, and Galicia in Spain: this list of places named for Celtic saltworks is far from complete,

Hallstatt gave its name to the Celtic archaeological culture that began mining for salt in the area in around 800 BC. Around 400 BC, the Hallstatt Celts, who had heretofore mined for salt, began open pan salt making. During the first millennium BC, Celtic communities grew rich trading salt and salted meat to Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome in exchange for wine and other luxuries.,

It is widely, though incorrectly, believed that troops in the Roman army were paid in salt. Even widely-respected historical works repeat this error. The word salad literally means "salted," and comes from the ancient Roman practice of salting leaf vegetables

Mahatma Gandhi led at least 100,000 people on the "Dandi March" or "Salt Satyagraha", in which protesters made their own salt from the sea, which was illegal under British rule, as it avoided paying the "salt tax". This civil disobedience inspired millions of common people, and elevated the Indian independence movement from an elitist struggle to a national struggle.

In religion

In the King James Bible, forty-one verses mention salt,the earliest being the story of Lot's wife, who was turned into a pillar of salt when she disobediently looked back at the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19:26). When King Abimelech destroyed the city of Shechem, he is said to have "sown salt on it;" a phrase expressing the completeness of its ruin. (Judges 9:45.) In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus referred to his followers as the "salt of the earth". The apostle Paul also encouraged Christians to "let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt" (Colossians 4:6).

In one of the Hadith recorded in Sunan Ibn Majah, Prophet Muhammad is reported to have said that: "Salt is the master of your food. God sent down four blessings from the sky - fire, water, iron and salt"

Salt is mandatory in the rite of the Tridentine Mass.Salt is used in the third item (which includes an Exorcism) of the Celtic Consecration (cf. Gallican rite) that is employed in the consecration of a church. Salt may be added to the water "where it is customary" in the Roman Catholic rite of Holy water.

Salt is considered to be a very auspicious substance in Hindu mythology, and is used in particular religious ceremonies like housewarmings and weddings.

In Judaism, it is recommended to have either a salty bread or to add salt to the bread if this bread is unsalted when doing Kidush for Shabat. It is customary to spread some salt over the bread or to dip the bread in a little salt when passing the bread around the table after the Kidush.To preserve the covenant between their people and God, Jews dip the Sabbath bread in salt.

In Wicca, salt is symbolic of the element Earth. It is also used as a purifier of sacred space.

In the native Japanese religion Shinto, salt is used for ritual purification of locations and people, such as in sumo wrestling.

In Aztec mythology, Huixtocihuatl was a fertility goddess who presided over salt and salt water.

The ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans invoked their gods with offerings of salt and water. This is thought to be the origin of the Holy Water used in the Christian faith

There have been two main sources for salt: sea water and rock salt. Rock salt occurs in vast beds of sedimentary evaporite minerals that result from the drying up of enclosed lakes, playas, and seas. Salt beds may be up to 350 m thick and underlie broad areas. In the United States and Canada extensive underground beds extend from the Appalachian basin of western New York through parts of Ontario and under much of the Michigan basin. Other deposits are in Texas, Ohio, Kansas, New Mexico, Nova Scotia, and Saskatchewan. In the United Kingdom underground beds are found in Cheshire and around Droitwich. Salzburg was named "the city of salt" for its mines.

Salt is extracted from underground beds either by mining or by solution mining using water or brine. In solution mining the salt reaches the surface as brine, which is then turned into salt crystals by evaporation.

 Now on with its magickal Uses!

If you had to choose just one magickal tool to have on hand, make it salt.

 

Salt has the widest range of spiritual and metaphysical uses of anything else around. It is considered to be a sacred substance and has been associated with every type of religion.

 

You may use it for cleansing, banishing, protecting, grounding, centering, purification, fertility, luck, prosperity, business success, stability and more. If you have an old ritual that calls for blood, use saltwater instead.

Salt -- whether common table salt, sea salt, or kosher salt -- has a long history of use in rituals of purification, magical protection, and blessing. Among spell-casters working in the European folk-magic tradition, it is a commonplace to lay down a pinch of salt in each corner of a room before performing a spell. This has carried over into contemporary African-American hoodoo practice as well.

Generally speaking, when the intention of a hoodoo spell is primarily protective, salt may be used alone or combined with ingredients like saltpeter and black pepper. For more aggressive spells against enemies, such as Hot Foot and Crossing, salt may be added to red pepper, sulphur, and bluestone.

In Latin America, salt is used to prepare a very important magical formula called Rattlesnake Salt which is believed to lengthen life and to provide protection for the home or place of business.

Additionally, because ritual cleaning is an important facet of African folk-magic, salt is a common ingredient in African-Americanhoodoo spells in which magical protection from evil and breaking enemy work (especially "live things" or tricks under the skin) is accomplished through the employment of ritual baths and floor washes.

Salt repels any form of negative energy, even evil astral energies.

Add salt to banishing incense, powders or washes for added energy.

If you feel weighted down with negative energy, a salt scrub will efficiently remove it and send it on its way.

Sprinkling salt in a circle around you creates the perfect protective environment to perform magick.

To keep unwanted visitors from returning to your home, simple sprinkle salt on the doorstep as they leave.

Purify gemstones by placing them in a bowl of saltwater for about a week.

Add salt to pouches and hang them on a door wreath to attract money.

A little salt in doorways and on windowsills protects your home from negative energy.

A salt bath cleanses and purifies and prepares one for magickal workings.

Salt left with the deceased represents the immortal spirit and ensures peace in the afterlife.

The old saying goes, "Never allow your household to run out of salt because this implies running out of money."

 

This involves the use of SALT. This can be ordinary table salt, sea salt, rock salt or any other form of salt available. The purifying properties of salt have been recognised by millions of people throughout all ages

 

 uses include seasoning, for cleansing crystals, magic mirrors, purification, consecration, grounding, protection magic and ritual.

A friend put her canlde in salt water...dry well then burns

 

In floor wash The best thing you do, when you go out early in the morning, if you got -- before you leave your home, if you feel that such as that is carrying on around you, you take such an ordinary thing as -- take salt, black pepper, and mix that together in a bottle, and scrub your place out.

Don't scrub it inward, see. Always scrub out from your place.

And with that water you mix salt and black pepper and scrub every morning before the sun rise. Make that a habitual habit to scrub in the morning before the sun rise -- every morning scrub out your door before de sun rise, and that will give you a natural protection against anything that's evil. Somebody's put something against you, down for you, that will give you protection against that.

 

SALT AND SALTPETER BATH FOR PUTTING ENEMIES UNDER YOUR FEET

Now, if -- when yo' wanta be lucky an' stay lucky so yo' kin jest -- yo' know, thrive and have prosperity, yo' git chew a nickel worth of saltpeter an' a tablespoonful of that and put it into yore water, five quarts of water an' take a tablespoonful of table salt an' mix with that an' let it boil down.

An' after yo' gets dat five quarts of water, yo' heat it. Whenever it start tuh, look like it gon'a boil, yo' jest stir this salt an' brimstone together an' then when yo' begin tuh lie down {at night}, yo' take yore bath with it. An' when yo take yore bath with it, yo' save dat water an' throw it east. An' every time yo' throw yo' explain lak dis -- say, "Lord, moves { = removes} thine evil influence." An' that [is called] puttin' de enemies under yore feet.

 

 

SALT AND SALTPETER BATH FOR UNDOING TRICKS

A person dat been tricked in de skin it's something dat is buried for 'em or laid down on de steps for 'em -- de house been dressed. You take nine teaspoonful of cooking salt, you take one dime {'s worth}, of saltpeter, use dat, and eight quarts of water, hot water -- just like water for a bath. You pull off all of your clothes, ever'thing you got on, you get in there and take a bath in dat same water nine times.

(What do you mean nine times? All at once or different times?)

Dat same water -- don't throw dat water away, you keep it in something like you take a bath in. Never rub upwards -- always rub from here down [demonstrates] .

(From your face right down.)

From there down. A person whut's been tricked in de skin, rub from here down and use dat water nine times, and de last time you use dat water, take it and throw it towards de sunrise, soon in the morning before the sun rise, so you get rid of dat complaint. Ah'm telling you whut's done happened to me

 

Some feel it should be SEA Salt here is information on it.

                                                          Natrium muriaticum (Sea Salt)

by Anja Heij 

The sea is salt and salt are your tears; salt is used to preserve your food. Natrium muriaticum, being the homoeopatic salt, is a medicine for preserved and frozen grief and suppressed emotions. People who need this remedy often have had a grief too big to work through, so they stored it somewhere in their personality, consciously or unconsciously. They don't want to talk about it and often weeping is impossible for them. They feel deeply hurt inside. In order to prevent further attacks on their soul they build an emotional ivory tower around themselves. This means that it are quite vulnerable, closed people who find it difficult to show their emotions and who keep other people at a certain distance.

Natrium muriaticum-characte rs have something fine; usually it are sensitive, polite and very helpful people who will do anything to avoid hurting others, because they know so very well what it means to be denied or to feel damaged. They don't accept help from others, they value their independence and they dislike consolation or advice, because that can irritate them. If someone has caused them serious grief, they can completely erase this person from their lives. Forgiving is out of the question. Like salt-pillars these people have something fixed over them like rigid ideas, unchangeable decisions or fixed opinions. ("This is how I feel about it!" Discussion closed)

In Natrium muriaticum emotional pain has become a scar, a damaged part that will remain forever. And like people consider a scar a part of their body, Natrium muriaticum considers his grief to be an irremovable part of his life; somehow he has decided that this past will accompany him forever. That explains why he cannot accept sympathy or consolation.

Since the past seems to be filled with grief, disappointment or rancour, Natrium Muriaticum focuses very much on his hopes and ideals for a better future. Often they try to make this world a better place in their role of teacher, adviser, counselor or they stand up against injustice.

These people like sad, beautiful music or sad movies. They can cry about the grief depicted in these movies, but not about their own grief. Natrium muriaticum can suffer from a severe mental exhaustion as well as a physical exhaustion. They show a nervous tension. They can experience severe hopelessness and depression.

The Sun, our big source of life force, melts down the salt. So Natrium muriaticum-personal ities develop many complaints in the sun and in warm surroundings: headaches, migraine, herpes zoster around the mouth, and their symptoms aggravate during daytime. And of course suppressed emotions cause health-problems, like headaches, skin-eruptions or high blood pressure. Often their bodies hold up moist (oedema, inability to sweat, no menstruation, severe constipation or not enough urinating)..

At the seashore they feel better or much worse. (The sea symbolizes the water-element: our feelings and emotions). They have a preference for salty food and fish. Open air and cold water make them feel better.