Incense herbs
“The smoke rises, snakes up before me, ascends to the sky, carries my message and brings the gods and goddesses their nectar, their indispensable elixir of life. The smoke vanishes like clouds, disappears into the firmament. The smoke becomes a snake, the vision snake of the Maya, the snake tunnel of the shamans, the dragon of the Himalayas. I speak to the deity in the throat of the smoke snake, I fly through the snake tunnel into other worlds. I become the breath of the dragon.”
Galan O. Seid, A Vision (2001)