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The motar, casted in mould of original brass in the 18th century in Turkey, is about 4 kilos weigh, 12.2 centimeter high and 12 centimeter in diameter. The motar is cracked and has a sign of being used for a long time. It is black, nice and old with support. A set shall include a motar and pestle, which expresses everlasting. The brass motar is so useful for daily life because of its multipurpose. It’s be used to pound coffee beans and other beans and it’s meaningfully sacred with strength and cohension. The Ethiopian often use this brass motar and pestle to pound coffee beans. When practising rites, they cosetting it and read the mantra for making coffee: “ASAMA, my coffee, please open and bless me and my descendant to get strength, mature and happiness, Asama”. In Ethiopia, the homeland of coffee plants, coffee culture had origin from the worship religion and being sociable with the Nature Mother of Fertility. Roasted coffee beans were pouned in a wooden motar (called Mukecha) and a metal pestle (called Zenezena). If a region used metal motar and pestle, that region is liken as the richer one; However, the old Ethiopian have still kept their habit of pounding coffee beans by wooden motar and pestle and pounding food or medicinal herbs by the other material motars and pestles. They always think that the motar and pestle are symbols of the male and female genitals. It is that the pounding action is  harmony between male and female to have everlasting life.