THE FESTAL PROCESSING OF LOVEMAKING:

“While the king is at his TABLE, My SPIKENARD sends forth its fragrance”. Song of Solomon 1:12 NKJV

Table is an English term derived from Hebrew “Mecabh”, which denoted any flat round surface, but especially one used for festal procession. And the word ‘festal’ is refers to what “Offer fun and gaiety; Activities that are enjoyable or amusing”.

When a King is at his table, what do you think will be presented to him? Rich food, fruits and assorted wine, isn’t it? In the above verse, the King was feasting not on fruits and wine, but on his wife’s body. The taste of her mouth was like a mixture of wine, her breasts were like the cluster of fruits on a palm tree and the fragrance of her vulva was like spikenard. Wow, what a royal festal procession! He eats, drink and dance with his lovely wife.

As I said in my previous posts, Solomon used pictorial language to describe the beauty of marriage love and copulation. The wife said, “My Spikenard Gave Forth It's Fragrance”, The pictorial meaning of ‘spikenard’ is the fragrance that emits from her vagina when she is stimulated. 

In those days women would use spikenard to perfume their sexual parts. Spikenard was a costly perfume or ointment derived from a plant native to India. It was used as both a sexual stimulant, and as a relaxant. She was so hot from sexual stimulation that it was causing the scent of spikenard to fill the air letting him know she was in a high state of arousal.

Origen, an early church father, said that spikenard is a hairy plant that emits its scent only when it is rubbed. This lovely woman is saying that when they sit together in a feast of erotic love, he caressed her hairy vulva which emitted a fragrance when stimulated. Since the word for “at his table” can also mean enveloped, he was either enjoying an oral feast, or his erection was enveloped by her vagina. Halleluyah!