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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

ritualdust@merveilles.town ("Lizbeth") wrote:

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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• Image of an old wooden incense clock, a box with a top section containing sand with incense pattern drawn onto it that will slowly burn over a fixed period of time, a lid with square holes goes on top (remote)