garlic
Garlic is a plant and an herb.
- botanical information
- history
- nutritional information
- Chinese herbology
- magick correspondences and uses
- Goddesses and deities
botanical information:
Botanical name: Allium sativum
Common name: garlic
history:
History: Garlic and onions were fed to 100,000 laborers (not slaves) who worked on the Great Pyramid of Cheops.
nutritional information:
Garlic is a source of copper.
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Chinese herbalism:
Chinese gender: strongly yang (hot)
Chinese flavor: pungent
magickal correspondences and uses:
Western element: fire
Magickal uses: Use for fire magick.
Magickal uses: protection
Ritual uses: Garlic was a common Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) offering. Garlic offerings were found in the tomb of Tutankhamun.
Ritual uses: Use for work with Hecate.
deities associated with garlic:
- Hecate (Greek Goddess)
- Mars (Roman God)

Some herbs may be poisonious under some conditions. Exercise appropriate care.
Wild gathering: Avoid wild gathering. Some plants are endangered species. Some plants can be toxic just by touch. Even experts can make deadly misidentifications of wild plants. Please grow your own herbs in your own goddess garden (or window boxes).
See also: herbs





