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Setonite, also called African bloodstone, is composed of red jasper, grey chalcedony, and pyrite. Dragon's Blood, sometimes called Australian bloodstone, is composed of red jasper and green epidote. The name heliotrope derives from ancient beliefs about the manner in which the mineral reflects light.
Bloodstone Meaning and History. The bloodstone's rich green hue is set off by fiery red speckles reminiscent of droplets of blood—hence its long association in lore with healing blood ailments ...
Heliotrope, or bloodstone Heliotrope is a green variety of chalcedony, containing red inclusions of iron oxide that resemble drops of blood , giving heliotrope its alternative name of bloodstone. In a similar variety known as plasma, the spots are yellow instead.
"Bloodstone", a region in at least one of the "Fable" games by Lionhead Studios; Bloodstone: An Epic Dwarven Tale, a 1993 video game by Mindcraft Software, Inc. James Bond 007: Blood Stone, a 2010 video game; Bloodstone, an item in the video game series Defense of the Ancients; Bloodstone Lands, a kingdom in the Forgotten Realms Dungeons ...
The first-century historian Josephus believed there was a connection between the twelve stones in Aaron's breastplate (signifying the tribes of Israel, as described in the Book of Exodus), the twelve months of the year, and the twelve signs of the zodiac.
Jasper, an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or cryptocrystalline chalcedony and other mineral phases, [1] [2] is an opaque, [3] impure variety of silica, usually red, yellow, brown or green in color; and rarely blue.
Bloodstone (Heliotrope) Eilat stone; Epidosite; Glimmerite; Goldstone (glittering glass) Hawk's eye; Helenite (artificial glass made from volcanic ash) Iddingsite; Kimberlite; Lamproite; Lapis lazuli; Libyan desert glass; Llanite; Maw sit sit; Moldavite; Obsidian; Apache tears; Pallasite; Peridotite (also known as olivinite) Siilinjärvi ...
Hebrew ʾōḏem derives from the Hebrew root meaning "red". Carnelian is called sardion in Greek. Theophrastus (De lap., 55) and Pliny (Hist. nat., XXXVII, xxxi) derive sardion from the name of the city of Sardes where, they claim, it was first found. The carnelian is a siliceous stone and a species of chalcedony.