The Gallae - Ritual Honeyed Loose Incense

The Gallae is our ritual incense devoted to the priestexes of Kybele, the Gallae. Their gender nonconformity baffles scholars as surely as it baffled their contemporaries, but they call to us and other queer practitioners for that reason. We work with the Gallae as queer and trans ancestors; they have shown themselves to be loving teachers of the crafts of daily life as well as more mystical arts. We hope that this ritual incense will open the door for more practitioners to work with the Gallae in their own practice. 

Our Gallae ritual incense is handmade with herbs, resins, and honey. It contains rose petals, juniper berries, almonds, pinecones, cinnamon, frankincense, and dragon’s blood. Each item is ground and combined with honey, in a similar style to but distinct from kyphi incense. Each batch is pressed into a condensed layer of a jar and stored in a cool, dark place. It sleeps in its chthonic resting place for a moon cycle before being awoken and reborn into this life. It’s broken up, clumps loosened like packed dirt overturned for planting with the seeds of your workings. When burned, the first impression it left was that of a warm hug.

This honeyed loose incense is not self-lighting and needs an external heat source, such as a charcoal disk or tealight in a compatible incense burner. It comes in a 2oz glass jar with a cork lid. Each jar has a label featuring art of the Gallae based on a historical source and recreated by your local tricksters, to honor them as our incense teachers. Labels also include the ingredients included. 

We recommend shaking the bottle before each use to loosen any clumps and wake the incense again from its rest to prepare it for your workings.