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Found A Magic Stone

The female face I see is the blue pattern to the upper left - as though we're looking from behind at her cheek and eye. And opposite, meeting her gaze, is Ming the Merciless :confused: No disrespect to Loquaciousness' garage, but I'm enjoying this round of pareidolia more ;)

HUMPH!
 
I'm more interested in searching for patterns in reality.

How about fudgetusk takes his rock to a local geological society, or museum, and gets it identified. Or there may be local shops that specialise in geological specimens, gemstones, etc. (Who knows, one of them may make him an offer he can't refuse! :D)
 
I'm seeing the female face in profile, facing towards the right -

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This thread brought to mind the 'Rock Books' of Richard Sharpe Shaver, and for those who don't know about him, http://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/15/tucker.php

And from wiki,
During the 1960s and 1970s, now living in obscurity, Shaver searched for physical evidence of the bygone prehistoric races. He claimed to find it in certain rocks, which he believed were "rock books" that had been created by the great ancients and embedded with legible pictures and texts. For years he wrote about the rock books, photographed them, and made paintings of the images he found in them to demonstrate their historic importance. He even ran a "rock book" lending library through the mail, sending a slice of polished agate with a detailed description of what writings, drawings, and photographs he claimed were archived by Atlanteans inside the stone using special laser-like devices.
 
Ah, Richard Shaver is a hugely influential (if forgotten) figure in UFOlogy in that he pretty much started the whole alien underground bases thing. If I recall correctly, he sent a letter into Amazing Stories about his disturbing experiences with the Deros (I believe he heard them talking to him through a gas pump at his local petrol station.) A staff reporter threw it into the bin as being obviously too nuts and delusional to bother with. Editor Ray Palmer promptly fished it out and turned it into the next edition's cover story. And so a legend was born.
 
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I would call it chert, which is related to flint. I have special stones, not just cool or pretty but something more, I don't do much with them but say hello now and again and make sure they are in the right position.
 
I would call it chert, which is related to flint. I have special stones, not just cool or pretty but something more, I don't do much with them but say hello now and again and make sure they are in the right position.

Strangely enough, chert - черт - is the Russian word for devil, (it's pronounced something like "chiort"). Seems somehow fitting.
 
It's pretty because it contains an interesting mix of colours and textures - because it's a conglomerate rock! ;)

(I have an old passport from the 60s which describes me as a geologist - although actually I was working as a geological technician in the oil fields!)
As it has no cleavage, it is siliceous in nature - could be flint.
 
Pareidolia or not, I bet you've never seen a stone like it. The colouration. I've used the stone in magic, but it was negative magic:you probably shouldn't hear about it. I've had threads deleted on another forum when I've tried to talk about it.

Be brave. Tell us please. Can't see why it would be deleted, if it remains in the rules.


It's a lovely stone. And it's great that it has such significance for you too. All my magic "tools" have been from the natural world. I have actually seen a good few stones pretty similar, yes.
 
The stone is flint and chalkstone. And as beatifully coloured as the above stone is I still think my stone has clearer pictures in it. I also should mention that I dreamt about the stone AND painted a picture of one of the images in it before I found it.

Your stone is mainly banded agate.
 
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