7/10/2008

Legend about agate


In olden days, when Aphrodite the goodness of love and beauty lay down and slept soundly in the shade of trees, her son Eros god of love cut down her sparkling nail secretly, and flew into the sky with the nail happily. When he was flying in the sky, the nail fell down accidentally, but the nail turned into stone, the stone was the agate jewelry. So some people think that in possession of agate can strengthen the love.
In the myths of Japan, jade ancestor dedicated the agate to the god Amaterasu, that was a moon shape green jade, it was also one of three Japanese magical instruments

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