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It is said by thems wot say these things that if one wears an onyx around one's neck one's ardor of love will be cooled. This of course should thrill the maiden of your choice no end. Do you know how many onyx rings are sold to men each year? Methinks the Black Onyx monopolies and distributorships are owned by the therapists of the world. Parenthetically ... the onyx also provokes discord amongst lovers. How co-incidental. So feared was this stone in China that only menials and slaves and the mentally deprived would go into the caves for the mining of this dreaded item. Wear the stone in any manner ... and you will lose your capacities and probably wilt like a dandelion drenched in weed killer.
It is thought by thems wot think they think--I have it on authority that this constitutes a larger portion of humanity than most would imagine--that the pyramids were built by creatures from outer space. I would rest my case right here as regards the earlier part of this sentence were it not for the super-abundance of more pertinent information. For those of you scratching your heads ... not to worry ... this is all going to lead to a piece of jewelry designed by yours truly ... that is to say ... moi. I'm a mythological addict I yam I yam. King Khufu had a pyramid built in 2580 B.C. using 2,300,000blocks of limestone weighing 2.5 tons each. You think this is staggering? Wait. There's more. The stones of the pyramid built by one Cheops fit so perfectly together that one can not even slide a piece of paper between them. This--remember-- was done by using the technology of the day. No cranes and bulldozers in them thar days folks. It took 22 years to build and employed 100,00 workers. Which brings rise to two questions. I have the answer to one. First question ... how did they feed all those workers ... and how did they get rid of human waste. It must have been quite an aromatic fest. I do not have the answer to this. Second question ... how did they lift those stones ... some of which weighed five tons each. Fortunately ... I do have the answer to this ... for the same thinkers that conjured up aliens constructing these edifices ... also came up with the solution. It was done via levitation. And I bet you thought this was going to be complicated.
Which bring us via routes too arcane to mention ... to the Eye of Horus. It is said that the Eye of Horus is divided into 6 portions: a half, a quarter, an eighth, a sixteenth, a thirty-second, and a sixty-fourth. I have no idea what this means. The Eye was torn out of the god's head during his encounter with Seth, and later it was reassembled by Toth. The sign ... the Eye ... was much revered as a protective amulet. It was often painted on the prow of a ship. It was thought to protect against sharp practice. No swindling when the Eye that never slept was around to watch over things. The weight of the Eye--for those of you with a scientific bent who need to know these things--was about a gallon. That's about four quarts of milk into one eyeball folks.
So I sat and I thunk to myself one day: Wouldn't it be neat if I created a piece of jewelry that combined the pyramids--I would use six of them to symbolically conform to the divisions of the Eye of Horus--as well as using a black onyx intaglio etched with the eye of Horus using a pearl as the iris all in the shape of a Star of David for good measure? And I said yes ... it would indeed be neat ... and so it was thunk ... and so it was done. Wanna see?
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