The Myth and Lore of Garnets January’s Birthstone
Posted in Uncategorized on April 6th, 2011 by adminMyth and knowledge of Garnets January above
Article extraction: as a jeweler’s birthstones I am often asked about by my customers. Yet few people know the history behind the correlation between jewelry and months. A lot of people think nor what is behind attract you can feel to a particular gem. This article will discuss garnets above, January, with myths and knowledge, grasps this gem, metaphysics “meaning”.
Garnets knowledge can be traced back to the ancient Greek myth of Persephone. She is the daughter of Zeus maiden, the most powerful Greek gods, Demeter, the earth mother state is a plant and agriculture.
Persephone was picking flowers when she had been kidnapped in hell, the ruler of hell. Zeus find hermes find her and bring her back, but because she has eaten of the pomegranate seed, she has the obligation to spend one-third of hell, he is her new husband.
Garnet “this word comes from the phoenicians terminology, pomegranate: punica geranatum. From this is Latin word” granatus “, this translates as “children. “Garnets looks like pomegranate seed, alone in the nature of the matrix, where they can be found in the cluster.
Persephone’s rise from the underworld and disappear in late autumn representative seasonal cycles of plant growth in temperate climates. In winter, the barren and when the plants in the earth itself seems to be asleep, Persephone for underground layer. Spring she rose and with her mother, Demeter, make the development of the bounty leaves with joy of her daughter’s return.
This myth association, especially red garnets garnets, Persephone shows that gems may lead to a special type of love, but not superficial types of love, but love deeply, take you away from yourself, you are in a different world.
Note, Persephone none. She was swept down. Once she tasted the grave, she could not leave; This is an enlightenment of feeling. Hades, Persephone’s husband, perched world, one is forced to leave your body is behind in ashes.
Hell is sometimes referred to as “the wealth of the Lord”, because the fact that all riches to disappear from the earth. Jung abstruse philosophy and astrological knowledge workers with catharsis, hell deep change fundamentally. You down to sheol a metaphor unconscious current exist, dream world, where the prototype myth, all characters interactive mode.
Besides myth, centuries garnets many problems of knowledge. Have a biblical story about Noah garnet around his neck and hang a picture to have safe passage through the dark and stormy nights, maybe it’s share garnets for travelers as a talisman provide safe journey.
Garnet reputed January above. The Chinese zodiac is Aquarius, relevant marks the warmth of friendship and working with groups of people.
The Koran describes the heavenly light as all pervasive, glowing because garnets. Garnets, in this case, contains a strong internal energy. Romans comparative garnet ray of light, the passionate red coal and is connected, guide their jewelry water the god of war. Garnets summer are also associated with the hot weather.
Maybe garnets knowledge also with how they are formed. Garnets, also can be in metamorphic rocks and volcanic rock, is formed deep underground, in extreme pressure and temperature purposes. They are a kind of silicate have the same crystal, isometric, cubic structure.
Although we often identify them color red, they can be found in all kinds of colour, depends on the composition of calcium, iron and manganese. Garnets range from green, citric yellow, black, rose and orange, or black.
Human beings have use effect garnets for thousands of years. Garnets can also be found in the Bronze Age grave. According to Knuth garnet, the earliest record of my in Sri Lanka and can be traced back to about 2,500 years.
Today, in several countries become garnets mined. Those without a gem product quality is quite common. I remember to pick out the little red in granite, the white mountains in the northern state of New Hampshire I like a teenage exploration.
If you want to learn more about garnets and your relationship, this is a completely different methods. Just try with your hands with a garnet wait to see you buy a new feeling. Maybe you’ll see some images in mind.
Think what you feel and see if it provides insight. This may seem crazy, but garnet ask a question. You will be surprised what garnet can give your own personal journey, picking flowers and your lover, or wandering in the dream field where oh.
Reference: most of the historical content, myths and legends reference in this article from two books, these two diseases are in print and online:
George Frederick Kunz, curious knowledge gem, New York, Dover publications, company in 1913, 1971.
Bruce Knuth, gems in myths, legends and knowledge, Parachute, Colorado, jewelers press, 2007.