lazura Amethyst Yellow Sapphire and Diamonds

Yellow Sapphire and Diamonds

it was said to glow in the dark

and diamonds

gold cradles it like a warm breeze lifting sea foam

sapphires circle the band in every shade the light allows: yellow

lazura Amethyst Yellow Sapphire and Diamondslapis lazuli rises from the ring a shard of deep blue, scattered with pyrite. ancient cultures did not distinguish between the stone and the sky. in sumerian, the same word named both. the golden flecks were read as stars; the stone was not a representation of the heavens it was the heavens, cut and held. a greek meander is set in diamonds across the stone's face. the oldest continuous geometric pattern known found on pottery from the neolithic