Lapis Stone
2010
Lapis Lazuli stone ??????
I recently read a book about vampires where this stone is referenced and I'm trying to find how it's connected to them.
I know the lapis stone was used as a symbol of power during Ancient Egypt, especially when it was in shape of an eye and smoldered by gold, among other things through-out history, but where does all that tie into vampires and myths?
Yes, I'm refering it to L. J. Smith's Vampire Diaries series.
And yes, I understand vampires are not real, I'm not a desperate fanatic but was simply curious.
In The Vampire Diaries by L. J. Smith, vampires wear necklaces or rings that contain lapis lazuli, as protection against the sun.
Lapis Lazuli with deep azure blue color, often flecked with golden pyrite inclusions, was treasured by the ancient Babylonians, Assyrians, and the Egyptians. Lapis was highly praised by Pharaohs in Egypt as a mystical stone. As well as being used to make sacred amulets and scarobs, Lapis is mentioned in the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Egyptians instructions to the afterlife. In the 140th chapter of these instructions it is said that Lapis, carved in the shape of an eye and set in gold was an amulet of great power. Lapis Lazuli was believed to be a sacred stone, buried with the dead to protect and guide them in the afterlife.
Lapis lazuli aids in the development of psychic abilities and promotes spirituality. It stimulates enlightenment and enhances dreamwork. It eliminates negative emotions. Traditionally, it is believed to increase mental clarity, virility, and calm. It helps focus energy and benefits for teachers, lecturers and speakers. Additional properties of Lapis includes: it opens the third eye and balances the throat chakra, it recognizes psychic attack, blocks it and returns it to its source and reverses curses, it harmonizes the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual of your being, it reveals inner truth and encourages self-awareness, it releases repressed anger and stress, it brings enduring qualities of honesty and compassion, it brings objectivity and clarity and helps you confront truth wherever you find it, and aids in expressing your own opinions and harmonizes conflicts.
Lapis lazuli is a positive, healing stone and I have never heard it associated with vampires. Quite the contrary, I have heard that it is associated with angels. The only reason I can think that it would have an association with vampires is because of its' historical association with the afterlife as described in the Egyptian Book of the Dead as mentioned above.
Lapis Lazuli mining in Sari-i-Sang in northern Afghanistan
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