To arrange Jesus’s body on the day of his burial, Mary Magdalene anointed his feet with spikenard oil. The prized oil was an expensive luxury in those days, and the act caused shock and outrage. “Everyone said ‘she’s mad, we knew that she was mad, she’s pouring all this money, this really expensive, luxurious substance throughout Jesus’s feet, she’s clearly a crazy woman,’” says FKA twigs. “So she took down her hair and he or she began mopping up the drops of spikenard that were falling off Jesus’s feet along with her hair.”
Spikenard, together with other herbs and oils utilized by Mary Magdalene to heal people, makes up the juice of twigs’...
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