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Whoever named it had held both.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich puts the stone straight into the oldest story about eating something you were told not to. Persephone takes six seeds in the underworld and it costs her half of every year. The pomegranate is never innocent in these stories. It is the thing you wanted, and the price, in the same hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen there is the lantern. Rabbinic commentary on Genesis holds that the only light Noah had through the flood was a single stone, hung from the ceiling of the ark, glowing for a year while it rained. Later retellings name it as garnet. It is not in the text. It is what people decided the text needed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA stone for the light you take with you, not the one you leave behind.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis particular garnet is rhodolite — from the Greek \u003cem\u003erhodon\u003c\/em\u003e, rose. 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What is certain is that the tree is at the centre and the kings put it there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe same shape keeps arriving. Yggdrasil holding nine worlds together. The tree in Eden with two names. The one in the Qur'an that is neither of the east nor of the west. Cultures that never met each other reached for the same diagram.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEvery culture that drew a tree drew it reaching in both directions\u003c\/strong\u003e — as much root as branch, the same amount of the thing hidden as shown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat is the form here, in silver, spanning two fingers, with rhodolite garnet set into it like fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eI will be straight with you about this one. It is the boldest piece in the collection and it is not for every day. 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