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A named blue-green copper stone of Egyptian and Persian ornament and later amulet speech. Not jade, and not generic stone.

Nahua tradition

Turquoise appears in Nahua tradition.
The Florentine Codex treats xiuitl and turquoise mosaic materials among Nahua regalia and sacred craft. A named blue-green stone in that colonial ethnography, not Persian turquoise jewelry speech and not jadeite.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
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Egyptian religion

Turquoise appears in Egyptian religion.
The Book of the Dead’s amulet and offering speech names turquoise among prized blue-green stones of the dead’s gear. A named turquoise in that corpus, not jade and not a modern jewelry dump alone.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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sources

Florentine Codex · Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators
Bernardino de Sahagún, General History of the Things of New Spain (Florentine Codex).
Book of the Dead · Raymond O. Faulkner (translation)
Raymond O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.