Crystal Grimoire
Apache Tears
Chakras: Root, Sacral, Heart
Zodiac: Scorpio
Planets: Pluto, Saturn
Elements: Earth, Fire
Summary
Water-Worn Obsidian, created by the Apache Tribe's tears. Known as the Stone of Travelers.
Keywords
Often associated with: Stone of Travelers, emotional support, physical strength, energetic clearing, inner strength
History and lore
In history and lore: Apache Tears are obsidian, and old lore told of obsidian as a whole. The Mexicans, Kunz records, made images of their god Tezcatlipoca of obsidian, a name read as 'shining mirror,' and in sixteenth-century Mexico the Spanish friar Sahagun reported finding by experience that ground obsidian, bound in a cloth over a painful foot, took away gout.
About the sources
- George Frederick Kunz (1856 to 1932), Tiffany & Co.'s chief gemologist and author of The Curious Lore of Precious Stones (1913) and The Magic of Jewels and Charms (1915).
- Bernardino de Sahagun, Franciscan friar and one of the first preachers in New Spain, whose Historia general de las cosas de Nueva Espana recorded Aztec (Nahua) knowledge in the sixteenth century; edition of Carlos Maria de Bustamante (Mexico).