gemstones, myths and legends
About Stellar Sapphire
The most expensive
Sapphire is a very rare Stellar Sapphire.
There is a legend about its appearance on the Earth. Once upon a time when
on Ceylon there were impassable tropical forests with blossoming acacias,
baobabs and evergreen coconu
t
palm trees, there lived a young man by name Dzhampal. He was so handsome,
that women and girls were afraid to look at him. Dzhampal was a hunter. For
hunting, his fellows took with them bows and arrows with the tips poisoned
by snake poison, but Dzhampal was content with a boomerang. One day he
decided to spend the night in the forest. But he could not sleep because a
small asterisk twinkled over his head. The asterisk was so beautiful that
Dzhampal fell in love with it. Now every evening he came to the same place
and admired the asterisk. When at dawn the sky be
came dark blue the asterisk
descended so low, that almost touched Dzhampal’s curly hair, and the young
man whispered:
“Listen, a pre-dawn asterisk, be my guiding star”.
But the asterisk answered nothing and disappeared in a fog... The next
evening Dzhampal came back to and discovered His lovely asterisk shining at
him. Suddenly a black goat with a white spot on a forehead jumped out from a
bush. The hunter threw the boomerang at him, but the goat turned his head
and uttered a blaring roar. A whirlwind came off its spiral horns. It picked
up a boomerang and begun to whirl it in air, lifting it higher and higher.
High up in the sky, the boomerang struck a dark blue dome and chopped off a
part of it together with the asterisk. When the piece of dome fell on the
ground, it has been broken up into smithereens. One of the splinters fell
toward Dzhampal ‘s legs. The young man picked it up. In a splinter of the
dome which turned into Sapphire, his majestic asterisk was shining with a
bright light.
That was a stellar sapphire.
About Ruby
Ruby is a sanguine transparent Corundum. Its native brother is Sapphire.
B
est Rubies were mined in India, on Ceylon, and also in Burma and Thailand
(Siam). Some Eastern nations call it “Lal". In Persia, Turkey and in other
east countries “Lal” is also the name of Almandine, Garnet and other red and
pink stones. Both in its hardness and in its value, Ruby is second only to
Diamond. In the East people said “Ruby gives to its wearer force of a lion,
fearlessness of an eagle and wisdom of a snake. It gives charms of love and
passion. Ruby should not be shown to children and buffalos: the child may be
frightened by its fiery col
or and the buffalo will get madly furious“.
There are many legends about Ruby. One Burmese legend tells about a
beautiful and strong eagle Lal that lived high in mountains. Not only birds,
but even chamoises and pronghorns avoided him. The “night robber” - fearful
eagle-owl sat out in a hollow of old tree while the eagle flied above
mountains. The years passed by and the eagle’s plumage started to turn grey.
He still flew high above the mountains, though not twenty circles anymore,
but only ten. Every year Lal reduced radius of his flights. And one day, he
spread his wide wings, but could not come off the ground. Lal understood
then, that his life approaches it's end. Now he could not catch up with a
chamois or a roe anymore and could only devastate the bird's nests. Once,
coming back in his cave, Lal saw an eagle-owl sitting without stirring when
the eagle has flown by above him. The eagle-owl approached Lal and told him:
"Listen, fellow, let’s talk as equals. You are too old now to earn your
living. I agree to share with you the mice and shrews,
just do not touch my nestlings".
Lal answered nothing . The eagle-owl left but Lal was still sitting and
thinking.
"There is time to be born and there is time to die" – decided Lal.
Gathering his remaining strength, Lal flew high up in the sky and there he
has folded his wings. All the birds and animals saw him falling down,
illuminated by the first rays of the rising sun, until his body struck the
rocks below. The drops of eagle’s blood then turned into bright-red
transparent stones.
That's how the noble sanguine Burmese Rubies were born.
