"Opium seeds, English Herbal from about 1500. Herbs and sacrifice. Sacrifice and scent and perfume, incense in particular, are very very close. Incense is the colour of blood and in many ways incense is blood, represents blood, can be taken in as blood, and of course blood will flow and it will be sacrificed - so this fusion is very important: Of Death, incense, herbs, perfume and eventually, with death taking place - stench of some kind" "Relation to Mexico: Prisoners were perfumed before sacrificed, and then sacrificed singly"