Crystal

• Crystal is associated with Mirror.

  A clear stone can return a likeness. Later scrying is a named, often modern, use of that fact; it is not Nahua obsidian.

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• Crystal is used in Divination.

  Looking into crystal for a sign is a later popular and occult technique. It is not Ptolemy and not Ifá.

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• Crystal is historically related to Glass.

  In Beck's The Draper’s Dictionary, Crystal is named in the glazing lemmas beside Glass.

  from S. William Beck · The Draper’s Dictionary, 1882

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• Crystal is used in Medicine.

  Crystal used in Medicine. A regular mineral growth. An organized craft of treating the sick. The Atlas keeps their meeting local, without dissolving either into a single meaning.

  from SHOE.BLUE · SHOE.BLUE, 2026

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• Crystal is used in Offerings.

  Crystal used in Offerings. A regular mineral growth. Gifts given to gods, dead, or powers: fire, food, blood, incense, words. The Atlas keeps their meeting local, without dissolving either into a single meaning.

  from SHOE.BLUE · SHOE.BLUE, 2026

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Buddhist traditions

• Crystal appears in Buddhist traditions.

  Watson’s Lotus Sūtra names crystal among the seven treasures of Buddha-land adornment. A named crystal in that sūtra, not divination scrying alone and not crystal-healing chrome.

  from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older

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Roman religion

• Crystal appears in Roman religion.

  Pliny’s Natural History treats rock-crystal among gem and vessel materials of Roman encyclopedia speech. A named crystal in that encyclopedia, not glass as the fused material already walked and not a modern crystal-healing dump.

  from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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Nahua tradition

• Crystal appears in Nahua tradition.

  Sahagún’s Florentine Codex seats rock-crystal among Book 11 stone speech and mirror-adjacent hard clear stone. A named crystal in that ethnography, not smoking-mirror as the named tezcatl object already filed and not crystal-healing modernism.

  from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577

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Northwest Coast tradition

• Crystal appears in Northwest Coast tradition.

  Swanton’s Tlingit shamanic narratives seat clear hard stones among power and seeing speech of that coast. A named crystal in that ethnography, not modern crystal-healing slogans and not Pliny rock-crystal pharmacy alone.

  from John R. Swanton · Tlingit Myths and Texts, 1909

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