[Aztlan] Aztlan Digest, Vol 37, Issue 22 Dark heart stone e

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With such little information any guess is just that... but mine is that the description of the stone as just  "dark crystalline" means it is is not anything fancy, such as specular hematite or obsidian.  Probably just a dark volcanic basalt or basaltic gneiss river pebble that could be naturally heart shaped or slightly re ground to that shape.  I saw many such river pebbles down the usumacinta recently.

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> A far as "a dark heart crystallized stone"  is concerned, perhaps you
> might think specular hematite.  It is dark & shiny (like a mirror), is
> dense, crystalline and a "stone."  Hematite might make a good "heart"
> of the pyramid since some pyramids apparently were painted with
> hematite-doped paint to sparkle (unfortunately I don't remember where
> I saw/heard this...) similarly to the Rosalila Pyramid at Copan and
> its mica-doped paint... and hematite leaves a blood red streak when
> scraped across unglazed tile or other hard substance or/and when
> ground up.  The material was, if I remember correctly from some
> now-forgotten reference, also used along with pyrite as mirrors, thus
> its connection with the elite, perhaps seeing themselves as
> reflections of the Gods?
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> So much good speculation from so little data!
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> Happi Holidaze,
> Bruce Rogers, earth scientist on a good day
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> "The efforts of many researchers have already cast much darkness on
> the subject;  and it is likely that if they continue, we will soon
> know nothing about it at all."  -- Mark Twain
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