Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian
Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian
THE use of stones for the decoration of images of the gods, and in religious ceremonies, more especially in those connected with the burial…
Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian: Budge
Another amulet is the tet. The hieroglyph represents a mason's table and the word signifies "firmness, stability, preservation." These…
Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian: Osiris
Rise up from non-existence, O prostrate one! They watch over thy head at the exalted horizon. Thou overthrowest thine enemies; thou…
Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian: Babylonian
The Babylonian legends also tell of trees on which grow precious stones. In the Gilgamesh epic a mystic cedar tree is described. This grew…
Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian: Adad
While the characters are clearly cut and can be easily deciphered, the inscription is nevertheless exceedingly difficult to translate. It…
Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian: Questions
It is not only in the works of the Fathers of the Christian Church that we find precious stones used as similes of religious virtue, in…
Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian: Bhikshu
And again, O King, as the diamond cannot be alloyed with other substance; just so, O King, should the strenuous Bhikshu, earnest in effort…
Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian: Revelations
Let the pure associate with the pure, Ever in recollection firm; Dwelling harmoniously wise, Thus shall ye put an end to griefs. The…
Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian: Hindu
As compared with the description in Revelations we cannot fail to note the lack of definiteness. Instead of the well-ordered scheme of…
Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian: Chinese
As engraved decoration of a fine Chinese vase of white jade with delicate crown markings, appear eight storks, each of which bears in its…
Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian: Mercury
From this description we learn that the jewel was designed to combine all the powerful astrological influences. The gems chosen to…
Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian: Yakut
NINE GEMS. English Sanskrit Burmese Chinese (Canton) Arabic Diamond Vajra Chein Chun-syak Mas Ruby Manikya Budmiya Se-fla-yu-syak Yakut…
Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian: Mexico
The greater number of ancient Mexican jadeite beads appear to have been rounded pebbles of this material, assorted as to size and drilled…
Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian: Indians
Rock-crystal is included among the various objects used as fetiches by the Cherokee Indians. This stone is believed to have great power to…
Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian: Greek
The knowledge of classical mythology was so slight among the ecclesiastics of the Middle Ages that some very queer attributions of the…
Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian: Sylvester
The St. Sylvester or St. James stone is a banded agate in two colors, the one dark and the other light, with a cat's-eye effect so that…
Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian: Sacro
The famous "Sacro Catino" preserved in Genoa was long believed to be made of a single immense emerald, but careful investigation proved…
Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian: Genoese
A queer story has been told regarding the Genoese emerald. At one time when the government was hard pressed for money, the Sacro Catino was…
Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian: Agricola
Among the celebrated emeralds noted by George Agricola (Agricolae, "De natura fossilium," lib. vi, Basileae, 1546.) (1490-1555) was a large…
Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian: Cathedral
One of the most renowned emeralds in the world surmounted the eleborately jewelled imperial crown that was placed upon the head of the…
Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian: French
If we are to believe the following anecdote, the emerald disappeared at an earlier date: It is said that in 1809, during the French…
Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian: Whitby
The monastery of Streoneshalh, later Whitby Abbey, was founded about 656 A.D. by Oswy, King of Northumbria, in fulfilment of a vow made…
Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian: Italy
In the sixteenth century jet was popularly called "black amber," and Cardano states that in his time beads of this material were made up…
Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian: Baelz
Certain curious amulets called magatama (crooked jewels) have been found in Japanese graves of the iron age; (Dr. Baelz, of the Imperial…
Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian: Gonzalez
Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo, who travelled in the East during the years 1403-1406, gives a description of a slab of stone bearing the outlines…
Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian: England
In some epitaphs the hope of the resurrection finds expression in likening the body enclosed in its narrow coffin to a precious jewel in…
Religious Uses: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian: Sundays
GREEN is the canonical color for use on Sundays, week-days, and ordinary festivals. Hope and joy and the bright promises of youth are…