Incense also known as agarbathi (or agarbatti) and joss sticks, in which an incense paste is rolled or moulded around a bamboo stick, are the main forms of incense in India. The bamboo method originated in India, and is distinct from the Nepali/Tibetan and Japanese methods of stick making without bamboo cores. Though the method is also used in the west, particularly in America, it is strongly associated with India. The basic ingredients are the bamboo stick, the paste (generally made of charcoal dust and joss/jiggit/gum/tabu powder - an adhesive made from the bark of litsea glutinosa and other trees), and
Deus Deus Deus () is Latin for "god" or "deity". Latin "deus" and "dīvus" "divine", are descended from Proto-Indo-European *"deiwos", "celestial" or "shining", from the same root as "*Dyēus", the reconstructed chief god of the Proto-Indo-European pantheon. In Classical Latin, "deus" (feminine "dea") was a general noun referring to a deity, while in technical usage a "divus" or "diva" was a figure who had become divine, such as a divinized emperor. In Late Latin, "Deus" came to be used mostly for the Christian God. It was inherited by the Romance languages in French "Dieu", Spanish "Dios", Portuguese and Galician "Deus", Italian