Exempel på censer

• The drawings show changing styles of prehistoric censers in the Mayan era.

• In the temple censers burned, filling the air with fragrant haze.

• During the Mass, the litanies and prayers, the censers swinging to and fro and the smell of incense made her feel lightheaded.

• She placed a palmful of incense into the censer and lit it.

• The chest contained a silver censer, an ivory and gold cross, two silver candelabra, and two gospel books in gold and silver.

• Where kiln furniture such as saggers does appear, it may not be recognized, or it may be evaluated as large, coarseware censers.

• These may have functioned as lids for complex censers or braziers.

• Seven of the effigies were placed to the south with at least four spiked lidded censers.

• All modeled censers were recovered from contexts that indicate their use atop structure summits in the rear sections of what were likely enclosed rooms.

• These comparisons indicate that the south concentrations contained greater percentages of slipped ceramics and censers.

• For one, elaborately modeled image censers and censer stands abruptly ceased to be used, and spiked hourglass and ladle censers were adopted.

• Vents under the arm and in the open mouth of the singing figure served as the exit holes and smoking "breath" of the censer.

• The reference would be to white stuccoed non-effigy censers used to burn incense near stelae and then left at their place of use.

• Non-image and particularly spiked censers were more associated with birth/renewal, earth, rain, and calendrical rituals involving fire drilling.

• Ferree suggests that this technological change allowed the production of a new "form" of censer that was not technologically possible before this development.

• One approach to the function or ritual meaning of censers is to examine the complex iconography of their modeled and appliqued embellishments.

• Complex pronged bowl-and-support censers are composed of a ceramic basal support generally attached to three prongs, upon which a ceramic bowl would rest.

• Such a symbolic relationship is of unknown origin and duration, but it could help explain the occasional recovery of paired censers in burials.

• In contrast to the figurines, there is no evidence that long-handle censers were circulated by exchange or any other means.