Hemera
I´m always interested in learning which Crystals are liked to Goddesses. Some connections seem very arbitrary and sort of fabricated. Or maybe I should rather say personal. (-Maybe the person has meditated on it and asked the crystal and found the connection?)
Anyway, some connections seem to come from colors, like Aphrodite-Love-Pink-Rose Quartz and it´s okay. But it would be nice to hear if anyone knows about any connections or traditions that go a bit deeper than just color?
I read (in Hekate Soteira by Sarah Iles Johnston) that there is a connection between Hekate and Sapphire that´s not just made with the dark blue color of the night in mind. Apparently Hekate´s wheel was used as a tool for magic (for invoking her) and the instructions for making such a wheel stated that the center stone should be a sapphire. To complicate matters, it seems that also Lapis Lazuli was called Sapphire back in 300 BCE.
Another such connection I bumped into just last week was Goddess Pele and Peridot. I had automatically assumed that Pele as a Goddes of volcanoes would be connected with red or orange crystals and have some of them as her attribute. But it seems that the olive green Peridot is her stone because it is the one stone (in addition to the diamond) that is born deep in volcanoes. Apparently there is a lot of Peridot in Hawaii, a lot of it ground into dark sand during the centuries and millennia. I think it is fascinating.
Anyway, some connections seem to come from colors, like Aphrodite-Love-Pink-Rose Quartz and it´s okay. But it would be nice to hear if anyone knows about any connections or traditions that go a bit deeper than just color?
I read (in Hekate Soteira by Sarah Iles Johnston) that there is a connection between Hekate and Sapphire that´s not just made with the dark blue color of the night in mind. Apparently Hekate´s wheel was used as a tool for magic (for invoking her) and the instructions for making such a wheel stated that the center stone should be a sapphire. To complicate matters, it seems that also Lapis Lazuli was called Sapphire back in 300 BCE.
Another such connection I bumped into just last week was Goddess Pele and Peridot. I had automatically assumed that Pele as a Goddes of volcanoes would be connected with red or orange crystals and have some of them as her attribute. But it seems that the olive green Peridot is her stone because it is the one stone (in addition to the diamond) that is born deep in volcanoes. Apparently there is a lot of Peridot in Hawaii, a lot of it ground into dark sand during the centuries and millennia. I think it is fascinating.
Wikipedia said:Olivine, of which peridot is a type, is a common mineral in mafic and ultramafic rocks, and it is often found in lavas and in peridotite xenoliths of the mantle, which lavas carry to the surface; but gem quality peridot only occurs in a fraction of these settings