Any time, since the man is "Erectus", stone played a primordial role.
Besides the fact that it is an ominiprésent constituent of our planet, it becomes quickly:
tool
weapon
stele
altar
oratory
statue
jewellery.
The ancient quickly disclosed his intrinsic qualities which according to his composition, its beauty and its curiosity, made the rock the basis of sculpture, building, decoration, jewellery-making.
Stone can be regulating and active, broadcasting radio of frequency she plays on the human metabolism and can be since then remedial or destructive.
The Celtic, the Polynesian, the Egyptians, the Roman …all these civilizations used the broadcasting ownership of stones for care, magic, request...
The most "poetic « use of stones notably in strong granite element is probably that of the griots of Africa make with.
The griot, in Africa is the wise man, but also whom possesses the all history of Africa, of all descendants, wars…
Sometimes Magician the Griot accumulates in itself an ancestral knowledge transmitted and augmented by generation in generation.
When a griot can’t transmit his knolewdge before dying to human successor (like son), it transmits by hands all knowledges in himself to a stone. « The one who will know how to read will be the whom will have knowledge ».
For other civilizations too rocks played an important role in legends and/or in myths… True allegories of the importance of stone for the men, concealing a knowledge which it is necessary to be ready to gather.
So, the sword of the king Arthur appraises in a rock, Jerusalem, Massada, obelisks Egyptian, Stonehenge, Carnac, Charybde and Scylla, the cornerstone …
Primordial stone, collector of our stories, always hurries up, stones are perhaps the most intriguing of principles of life on earth.
Participating in everything, becoming eroded, re-forming, having a cycle of a length broadly satisfied to other enlivened beings, it continues its history made by thousand generations…
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