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Ch. 1: Pantarbes

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PANTARBES.
 
 

 
 
have suggested the notion of the deference paid to it by all other gems to which it stood in the relation of a queen-bee to her swarm.
It would seem that the Ruby is the stone intended by all these legends savouring so strongly of a Persian origin. The high estimation in which it was held, its fiery colour, and lumin-ousness in the dark, are all points supporting this explanation. This also supplies the reason why this particular gem should have been selected for an amulet against the element of Fire ; for the distinctive epithet of the true Carbunculus was Acaustus, " the incombustible : " and the substitution of an active for a passive virtue was facile with the Oriental worshippers of gems. Hafiz sings how that Jamshid's Ruby Cup blushed rosy like the dawn through the porphyry walls containing it.
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
       
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