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The long history of association between God and unusual smells
19 Jun 2025
The long history of association between God and unusual smells.
some scholars believe that the English language suffered from the “cultural repression and denigration of smell” during the Enlightenment, as improvements in hygiene and objections to “superstition” transformed the lived environment into one less sensorially confrontational.
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