Word: obsidian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tuscany who battled for permission to dig up the piazza, hopes to mount a midyear show to explain the history unearthed: a medieval city of giant towers sitting atop an important Roman city dating from the 1st century; Greek objects imported as early as the 8th century B.C.; even obsidian tools and pottery fragments probably imported from Sardinia around 3000 B.C. Nicosia says the findings have forced experts to rethink old Florence: "We expected to discover the Roman and the medieval cities, but not to this extent. We also didn't know the city was so old, going...
...manifestations of spiritual problems." Gallbladder ailments, she says, come from a bitterness toward God, and lung trouble from a hatred of one's own body. "All you have to do is release these problems," she says. She uses amethyst, rose and blue quartz, and even black onyx and obsidian. One of her satisfied customers is Annette Manders, who wields a crystal wand that Lucia gave her. "I healed a fungus under my toenail with my wand," says Manders, "and I had a stomach problem that doesn't bother me anymore. The energy is subtle. It's not like...
...curse bequeathed to Mexico City by the Aztecs was the curse of human sacrifice. That ritual, in which a priest bent over the recumbent victim and cut out his throbbing heart with an obsidian knife, was central to the Aztecs' religion. The war god Huitzilopochtli required blood as the price of Aztec victory and the rain god Tlaloc required it as the price of the harvest; if these gods remained unpropitiated, the world would end. Exactly how many victims were thus sacrificed (and later eaten) remains uncertain, but it is believed that 20,000 prisoners were offered...