(See Also: Eating, Fruits, Vegetables)
Setting aside some type of resource for a time when you feel it will be needed. Hiding something; what’s getting locked away in that can?
Alchemical: Canning as an art mythologically owes some of its beginnings to Hermes Trismegistus, a legendary author of alchemical doctrines sometime in the first three centuries C.E.
(e.g., Hermetic seals), and the god of communication.
The implied symbolism here is that something is “bottled up” or “airtight,” often pertaining to discourse.
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