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Given name Heliodor Given name / surname It is a given and surname. [2] [3] Heliodor is a specimen of the mineral Beryl. Heliodor has a yellow, greenish yellow, or golden-yellow color. The given name has a Czech-Slovak origin. [3] Precious coral: Coral (given name) Given name Coralie: Given name Coraline (given name) Given name Celestine ...
Shiohiru-tama (潮干珠潮満珠) "ebb gem" and Shiomitsu-tama (潮満珠) "flow gem" are the full, archaic "tide jewel" names, prefixed with shio (潮, "tide; flow; salt water"); they are also called shio-tama and mitsu-tama respectively, for short.
In Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood, the Primal Susano was contained in three treasures sacred to the tortoise-like Kojin of the Ruby Sea; the sword Ame no Murakumo, the mirror Yata-no-Kagami, and the gem Yasakani-no-Magatama. When the three treasures were brought together, Susano was restored and challenged the player to battle.
Yamashita's gold, also referred to as the Yamashita treasure, is the name given to the alleged war loot stolen in Southeast Asia by Imperial Japanese forces during World War II and hidden in caves, tunnels, underground complexes, or just underground in the Philippines—most commonly the island of Mindanao. According to the legend, it is named ...
The name "nephrite" is mineralogically correct for referring to the rock. Jadeite, is a legitimate mineral species, differing from the pyroxene jade rock. In China, the name jadeite has been replaced with fei cui, the traditional Chinese name for this gem that was in use long before Damour created the name in 1863. [3]
Examples of magatama from the Jōmon period have been discovered in large numbers at the Kamegaoka site in Tsugaru, Aomori Prefecture.The Kamegaoka remains are among the largest known Jōmon settlement in Japan, and the magatama, among other decorative objects found, may be an indicator of the high social status of the settlement.
The Chinese-Japanese dictionary Wamyō Ruijushō, vol. 12 (established in the first half of the 10th century), explains that the Chinese mianguan is called tama no kōburi (玉乃冠, lit. ' jeweled crown ') in Japanese, and is characterized by chains called ryū (旒, lit. ' chain ') hanging from the front and back of the crown. [13]
Cintāmaṇi (Sanskrit; Devanagari: चिन्तामणि): 'Wish-Fulfilling Gem' (Tibetan: ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར་བུ, Wylie: yid bzhin norbu) [4] The mani (jewel) is translated in Chinese ruyi or ruyizhu 如意珠 "as-one-wishes jewel" or ruyibaozhu 如意寶珠 "as-one-wishes precious jewel".