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Written by Lizbeth on 2025-01-15 at 13:37

A recent piece of writing on solar time and older ways to keep time by made me look up the history of time keeping on Wikipedia where i found out about incense clocks. There's something really unique about different hours having different smells and this little device with slowly burning intricate paths

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Written by Alexander Cobleigh on 2025-01-15 at 14:22

@ritualdust omg wtf that is so cool!!!

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Written by Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK on 2025-01-15 at 14:33

@cblgh @ritualdust coincidentally I recently bought a pack of incense sticks from an Asian grocery shop last time I was in town, and was thinking "these burn at a fairly constant rate, I wonder if they could be (or were) used for timekeeping?

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Written by Luke on 2025-01-15 at 18:35

@vfrmedia @cblgh @ritualdust I read translated novels, and "in the time it takes to burn a stick of incense" is definitely a phrase I've read more than once.

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Written by Gaëlle on 2025-01-15 at 23:13

@Shivaekul and it is supposed to amount to 15 minutes !@vfrmedia @cblgh @ritualdust

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