why were the Magi supposed to be such famed gift-givers anyway? gold, frankincense and myrrh were just hard assets. it's like getting cash except you basically have to take the extra step of selling it to somebody to have money to buy the shit you want
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In fact myrrh was both known as an oil for anointing corpses and as a medicinal ointment for the living They also mixed it into wine and drank it, believing it had painkilling/intoxicant properties Mark has a Roman soldier give Jesus a mixture of wine and myrrh on the Cross
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The myrrh was the ancient equivalent of giving someone a large amount of compact wealth in the form of high-grade uncut crystal meth
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Gospels were written to be prophetic after the fact. For the fun parts, we’ll have to find Q source, which I’m betting has a disappointed but polite Mary thinking “Really guys? You show up just in time for the bris w/ gifts for when he dies but nothing like extra swaddling
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clothes for now.” And the magi had whispered arguments about “I told you we should have brought black sweet licorice!” “Shut up, I still say the exploding cigar would have been a laugh riot.”
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