This is an unusual and fascinating 1.8 oz, 2.65” by 2.15” by 0.3” Earth Mother Spirit Stone that a very light dove gray and beautifully shaped in nature. One side looks like a door to an expanding universe while thee other looks like some kind of ornate, ancient medallion!The origin of these stones began about 10,000 years ago as the glaciers began to recede from the large, quaternary lakes in Northern Canada. The rich mineral “soup” of the glacial melts contained abundant quantities of calcium and carbonates along with titanium, rare earths and other elements. Geologically what you see now is a calcium carbonate concretion after clay. When you inspect them, they have a smooth and a rough side showing ridges and Sanskrit like markings. The ridges are actually fossils of ancient worms, thus each stone becomes a page in the book of the geologic history of northern North America.

These wonderful stones were known as “fairy stones” to the Algonquin and they believed that they brought luck in the hunts and conferred health and prosperity to the homes. The largest ones were thought to further protect against bad spirits and the most beautiful were exchanged between lovers. Although found in many locations, these come from the Harricana River near Abitibi, Quebec in Canada. This river derived its name from the stones as ‘harricana’ is the Algonquin word for “biscuits” that the stones resemble.

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Fascinating and Unusual Earth Mother Spirit Stone