Colored Stones and Gems

(January 3, 2025) The Druid archaeological texts talk about emotion magic which would involve using various emotion enhancing and focusing items in rituals. Some of the most popular today are colored stones and gems. Additionally, more and more evidence is coming in that Neolithic people mined and traded colored stones long distances.

Listed below are the common emotional resonances for the most popular stones used today:

1. Quartz (clear) - amplifies and focuses psychic energies just like it does to light.

2. Hematite - this dark metallic stone is used for banishing and disposing of unwanted psychic energies by reflecting them away. This power may actually  reflect emotions back at you if you are holding onto unresolved issues causing increased feelings of unease.

3. Amethyst - psychic abilities, emotional calming and focus due to its purple color which is the first color of seen whey scrying through your eyelids when starting to go into that spiritually connective zone.

4. Citrine - for doing something with wealth due to its golden color

5. Rose Quartz - a pink crystal so amplifying love and sex

6. Carnelian - a dark-orange ember like stone so fire-like passion and transformation (also a comfort stone reminding one of a campfire)

7. Tiger’s Eye - the strength of a tiger, also for protection

8. Turquoise - Blue-green life color so healing

9. Jasper - a multicolored stone representing a common foundation with many aspects. Used in divination and self-help. Also used to represent the various chakras

10. Obsidian - the mystic night so it opens the more "scary" feelings

11. Mookite - for bringing hidden emotions forward

12. Salt – purification due to white color, protection due to its absorption of moisture.

13. Labradorite - Its iridescent plays of dark color  brings out the feelings of wonder and amazement about the natural realm.

14. Opal - Its iridescent plays of light color  brings out the feelings of wonder and amazement about the celestial or divine realm.

(January 3, 2025) Some great detective work traced the sources of some red and black stone chips left over from tool making to Sicily and to somewhere further afield. The main point here is that the Neolithic Maltese islanders would spend above average levels of wealth to bring in simple colored stones. The only reason for this is that the colors themselves were important. Such  trade proceeded the trade for metals during the Bronze Age.

(November 10, 2023, updated January 3, 2025) The earliest hieroglyphic inscription at this mine dates to the 40th year of pharaoh Amenemhat III (1831-1786 BCE) and it reads:

The mines were opened and closed several times. Pharaoh Hatshepsut was the last Pharoah to re-open it. She turned two natural side-by-side cave grottos into a temple. One side and grotto was dedicated to the goddess Hathor (equivalent to Mediterranean Ayu) and the other to the god Sopdu which seems to be the Akkadian phrase Sâpu.Du meaning "Community of the Life-Manifestations."

Egyptian Hathor (Druid crescent moon goddess Ayu) had a grotto there because she was associated with the blue sky which brought the manifested fertility fluids like rain, sun light, and heat.

Sopdu seems to have been a god representing the local people, that is, the Pagan Israelites who would have done most of the mining under the organization of the Minoans and later the Egyptians. The word "Israel" derives from the Akkadian phrase meaning "The righteous of Alu" from  IŠR.AL in which Alu is the source of the life powers. Sopdu essentially means the same thing and may even have been the label the Bronze Age Israelites.

When female Pharaoh Hatshepsut (1473-1458 BCE.) converted the grottos into temples she had one of the columns show her hugging Sopdu.  

The pharaohs who came after Pharaoh Hatshepsut kept expanding the walkway to the Hathor temple as shown below. The steles at the farthest entrance are dedicated to Pharaoh Sethnakht (reigned 1186-1184) and Ramesses II (reigned 1279-1213). The end of building indicates that the mine ceased major organized operations around 1180 BCE during the economic collapse brought about by the great drought which ended the Bronze Age. Yet the last offering tokens to these deities found in the grottos date to the time of Pharaoh Ramesses VI (1143-1136 BCE.) (Petrie 1906: p 149). 

The walkway leading to the grottos was mostly lined with numerous stone monuments dedicated to the goddess Hathor. Yet, some of these had other images including those of Egyptian ships and one even had a giraffe. A few of these monuments even had the date of their dedication inscribed on them. 

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