GEMSTONES, WHAT ARE THEY?for those in love with gemstones and their beauty
"If you happened to learn, that certain mystic has produced any action or has set something in motion which is beyond other's power,
do not hurry up to deny it entirely. Perhaps, you can discover the reason of all of it, proceeding from decree of nature."
Avicenna
We love gemstones. Still, in most cases we are rather sceptical when we hear stories of their "magical" properties and we tend to dismiss the "tales" about how they can affect the fortunes of the owner. It is a hard fact though, that most minerals were formed as a result of multiple and complicated chemical processes, which occurred during formation of the earth crust.
We may well reject any magic or mystical properties of the stones. Why then, when we start looking for a jewellery item, we are well aware what our "zodiac" stone is, and touching the beautiful gem offered to us, we follow our inner senses, instead of simply matching the earrings or a ring to our wardrobe.
This site is neither a buyer's guide nor an encyclopaedia of gems. It is simply an attempt to understand - why gems are so bewitching? Is it because they are so beautiful? Or because they do possess magical properties? Or because you can contemplate them for hours? It seems that the past centuries are dormant inside the tiny stones. Gems are created by the nature, and nature enclosed inside them the memory of ancient events, wisdom, curative force and magic energy...
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GEMSTONES, MYTHS AND LEGENDS
About Green Diamond
As the legend says, Green Diamond became known for the first time in small town of Chartres in France.
Here in Cartesian monastery, French monks prepared a Chartreuse liquor.
One of the monks, a taster,
had a simple silver ring with small diamond. He tasted liquor by filling up the thimble but pretty soon
he became drunk. So he decided to drip green liquor on the diamond and then lick it off.
Having woken up next morning, the monk has looked at the diamond and has suddenly seen that it shines
with bright green fire.
The monk tried to wash it clean in sacred water, heated it on the candle, but
nothing helped.
Diamond has remained green forever.
The legend about the first indigo diamond is tied to a name of the Portuguese seafarer Vasco da Gama, the first person to sail directly from Europe to India. On his way back from India, walking on the deck, he admired his White Diamond mounted in a heavy gold ring he bought recently. The ship cook passed by, slipped and accidentally pushed the captain. The ring slid off the finger, rolled on the deck and fell in the ocean. Four years later, during his second travel to India, Vasco da Gama was passing with his caravels by the same waters where the ring has been lost. While the captain remembered with sadness his lost ring, in the cockpit the ship cook suddenly could not believe his eyes: in the opened belly of the golden mackerel caught by the sailors, he discovered the lost ring! Only the color of the diamond has changed. It became indigo - dark blue, as gulf of Guinea during dead calm before the storm.