Garnet

granatum — the pomegranate seed

Garnet rough specimen on dark stone
Provenance
Mozambique · India · Bohemia
Mineral family
Garnet group — fire-holding silicates
Hardness
Mohs 6.5–7.5 — wear-ready
Energy
Vitality — The banked-coal frequency — heat that outlasts the night.
Named for the pomegranate seed it resembles, garnet has been jewelry for five thousand years — Bohemian courts wore rivers of it. Legend says a great glowing garnet, the carbuncle, lit the inside of Noah’s Ark through forty nights of storm.
“It is said a great garnet lit the Ark through forty nights.”Rabbinic legend · the carbuncle
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