Parables III: Salt

Dear Amy,
Seeing as how your "salt of the earth" journey, left you still wondering.I thought Id supply you with some biblical and other quotes to fill the void.
Salt means "Halo" in Greek
"Its the Oceans healing property."
Salt is an ancient symbol of Friendship.
"Have salt in yourselves and have Peace with another" Mark9:50
"Whoever spills salt, arouses enmity"(hence the throwing of salt over ones shoulder)
"You are the salt of the Earth"

PS.. I make "salt" jewelry..and if it doesn't violate anything on beliefnet, Id be happy to send you a gift. You can email my inbox under lulu2 for a place I can send it?

Sicilians love their salt. In Rome, many refuse to use the local stuff, and even berate the locals who do.

Amy
I believe the lady's low pay hinges on the entrance fee take and she hustled you on the English text question... or she does not know English and says yes to all questions. In St. Croix I clearly told a street hotdog vendor that I wanted the smaller hot dog, I turned a moment, and when I had turned back, he was handing me the huge and more expensive version...or so he thought. Natives earlier in the week had stolen our rental car's front tire... so my exhortation to said hot dog man left something to be desired in terms of Benedict's "quota of gratuitousness"...heck...it left something to be desired from the "turn the other cheek" passage since I was on the verge of turning the vendor's other cheek...which departs too greatly from the passage's real meaning. I'm sure my emotions at least ring a bell...cathedral size perhaps. On vacation, being hustled is a downer especially after wandering in search of said place.

Can't assist in interpreting artisanal artefacts, but how about a hermeneutic on salt? Here's a blogging concordance ;-)

__Covenants in both the Old and New Testaments were often sealed with salt: the origin of the word salvation
__Greek slave traders often bartered salt for slaves, giving rise to the expression that someone was not worth his salt
__Roman legionnaires were paid in salt - a salarium, the Latin origin of the word salary
__Thousands of Napoleon's troops died during the French retreat from Moscow due to inadequate wound healing and lowered resistance to disease - the results of salt deficiency
__In 2200 BC, the Chinese emperor Hsia Yu levied one of the first known taxes. He taxed salt. .. Until 1975, in Italy .. (t)he State had a monopoly on the manufacture and sale of salt, and fixed the final market price, which included the tax rate of about 70% of the selling price.
__French kings developed a salt monopoly by selling exclusive rights to produce it to a favored few who exploited that right to the point where the scarcity of salt was a major contributing cause of the French Revolution.
__Salt motivated the American pioneers. The American Revolution had heroes who were saltmakers and part of the British strategy was to deny the American rebels access to salt.

http://www.saltworks.us/salt_info/si_HistoryOfSalt.asp

And consider "If the salt should lose its savor . . ."
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071127165508AAcpITO

savor c.1225, from O.Fr. savour, from L. saporem (nom. sapor) "taste, flavor," related to sapere "to have a flavor" (see sapient, to perceive). (H/T EtymologyOnline) recalls homo sapiens no? As in a human developed in the "savoring" wisdom of Truth perceived as Love. . . Too little? Wounds to the body politic won't heal. Favored access? Social stability breaks down.
"Salt is as free as the water suspending it when it's dissolved, and as immutable as stone when it's dry - a fitting duality for Lot's wife, who overlooks Sodom to this day" And for a world desiccated by a lack of Caritas. . .

And yes, human tears are salty. We were made to be sapient!

I have the same trouble of driving around aimlessly because I think I know the way to somewhere. My favourite cities for this include the south side of Chicago, Akron OH and London England.