…with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
-Genesis 37:25
The Bible doesn’t say if their camels also carried totomoxtle, dried corn husk. By the looks of Angélica Santiago Matías’ puesto #3 on the Noche de Rábanos in Oaxaca, it was already well worn in Egypt by the time the caravan that carried Yusuf ibn Yacoub, Joseph Son of Jacob, had arrived.
