Amethyst Crystal Bracelet 5A Myrrh Resin a tree of South America’s

a tree of South America’s dry coastal forests in the Burseraceae family - the same family as frankincense and myrrh

and the stone has been set into rings and seals wherever its patterns suggested gardens

not the stone

Burseraceae) from Peru

On charcoal the piece softens slowly

Amethyst Crystal Bracelet 5A Myrrh Resin a tree of South America’sAmethyst the violet quartz the ancient world prized above almost any other. The Greeks wore it to stay clear headed at the table; Rome cut it into signet rings. Untreated, now worn at the wrist. It was one of the cardinal gems of antiquity, set beside diamond, ruby, and emerald until Brazils great deposits arrived in the nineteenth century. What changed was the supply, not the stone the same zoned violet, deepest where each crystal grew toward its