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Fiber Crop

Explore 1 fiber crop entries and compare their symbolic meanings across named religious, mythic, folkloric, and modern spiritual traditions.

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Crop · Fiber Crop

Flax

Linum usitatissimum

A blue-flowered fiber crop associated through linen with purity, sacred clothing, burial care, domestic skill, and ordered civilization.

Ancient Egyptian religionPurity, sacred order, and protected passage after death

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