Thus, we believe that amethyst was known already in ancient past, around 3000 BC. Consequently, to honor the memory of the beautiful girl, the stone was given powers to fight alcohol intoxication as well as all the other forms of intoxication.Īmethyst was found in the tomb of the Egyptian Pharaoh Djer, embedded in four bracelets of gold, alongside lapis and turquoise. This myth also sort of explains why the top of the stone possesses an intense color, while the rest of the stone is gradually becoming colorless. As the tears leaked into his cup filled with wine, the wine began to spill out onto the stone producing the magnificent purple color of amethyst. Dionysus eventually realized the cruelty of his act and started to weep. A casual victim was a young girl named Amethyst, who, in order to escape the rage of Dionysus, was transformed by the goddess Diana into a gleaming, clean, white stone (quartz). Of course, they had a myth to explain the origin of their belief: We won’t go into details, but it has to do with Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, and drinking who was offended when a mortal refused to express gratitude to him. The ancient Greeks believed that amethyst prevents drunkenness. Amethyst phantom is another typical metaphysical form of this mineral, which is not as rare as the previous two. Here, we see trapped bubbles of water, whether static or moving, which are probably millions of years old. The only place in the world where spirit amethyst is found is the Gauteng Province of South Africa. While the geodes are quite common, another form of this crystal is relatively rare – spirit amethyst is an extremely rare form consisting of a macroscopic crystals whose surface is covered with a tapestry of very small points. Some Interesting Metaphysical FormsĪmethyst is found in various forms, and probably the most common and most famous is the geode. This area is practically a tropical rainforest, hardly penetrable deep forests, which is accessible exclusively from the air. The one of the largest mines of amethyst is located near the border between Bolivia and Brazil. One interesting feature is that the heated amethyst that was turned into citrine can restore its purple color if irradiated by X rays. Natural citrine is quite rare, and the majority of citrine stones today in the mineral stores is obviously originating from amethyst. Under high temperature, amethyst changes its violet color to yellow (read citrine), and with specimens from some special regions of the world, it can change color to green (thus green amethyst). Our personal opinion is that the modern interpretation of the color origin in various minerals is deficient and cannot fully describe the actual complex physical picture. Now we believe that it has to do with iron impurities, and probably a role is played by aluminum as well. At first it was attributed to traces of manganese, then some experts claimed that it was of organic origin. The origin of amethyst’s color is still a sort of mystery. Like all the other quartz minerals, amethyst belongs to the group of Tektosilicates, which is to say that the most fundamental SiO4 structure units are distributed with respect to each other in 3D complex chains and frameworks. Usually the stripes are V shaped producing a form generally known as chevron amethyst. If the stone is not transparent, white stripes are sometimes observed. The color of amethyst is light to dark purple, sometimes, but very rarely one can find green amethyst and more often lavender or pink amethyst. Its hardness is 7 on the Mohs scale of hardness of minerals. The chemical composition of Amethyst is SiO2, which is to say that amethyst is a type of quartz, or the other name for quartz - silica.
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