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Home > Holiday >   Cloud Forest Tree Candle Box Set
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Description   Four colorful Arrayan tree, small wax pillar candles, packaged in a recycled all natural box. Contains one of each color; red, green, blue or purple The candles are hand made by Mayan Q'eqchi and Pokomchi people from the seeds of the Arrayan tree, a native of the cloud forests of Guatemala. The waxy seeds are heated to extract a natural alternative to synthetic wax. The Arrayan seed candles are sacred to the Mayan people, and are used to ask the Tzull Taq'a (God of the Mountain) for health, money, work, and abundance of crops as well as protection for their family and domestic animals. The scent and light of these candles is said to be capable of bringing together the Oxlaju Tzull Taq'a (the 13 Sacred Mountains). This provides families with an additional income to help support their subsistence farming practices. This is also good for the cloud forest; with an income generated from the forest there is less need to cut the forest to make room to grow more crops. Country of Origin: Guatemala Dimensions: 3" high x 2.5" diameter   Producer Information: "Boiling the seeds to extract the wax".  The sales of these candles support "Proyecto Eco Quetzal", a non-profit organization dedicated to addressing environmental education, sustainable agriculture, bio-monitoring as well as social issues and community development in rural Guatemala.

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