{"id":116,"date":"2010-10-13T09:58:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T13:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthegy.com\/?p=116"},"modified":"2017-05-19T10:02:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T14:02:02","slug":"cleopatra-and-lapis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.earthegy.com\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Cleopatra and Lapis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_117\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.earthegy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/cleopatra.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-117\" class=\" wp-image-117\" title=\"cleopatra\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.earthegy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/cleopatra-300x261.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.earthegy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/cleopatra-300x261.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.earthegy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/cleopatra.png 483w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cleopatra, the ultimate seductress&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The intense blue color of lapis lazuli will make you remember this stone forever.\u00a0 In various civilizations and cultures this stone was used in jewelry and other decorative goods, and Cleopatra played an important role in the popularity of this stone. It&#8217;s said that she used pulverized lapis lazuli as eye shadow because of its aphrodisiac effects.\u00a0 \u00a0It is considered the secret of Cleopatra&#8217;s spell binding effect which she was quite well known for.\u00a0 It was a common practice in ancient Egypt to use the ground lapis lazuli for its many different healing and aphrodisiac effects. Egyptian reckoned this stone, the stone of friendship, love and passion that could save them from misfortune.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now, if you\u2019re going to purchase lapis jewelry from me in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthegy.com\/lapis-products.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online shop<\/a>, I\u2019d really prefer it if you didn\u2019t pound it into dust and spread it on your eyes.\u00a0\u00a0 But if that brilliant blue just happens to entice a gentleman to pay a bit more attention to your wrists or ears\u2026then perhaps Cleopatra\u2019s spell will work for you.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 499px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthegy.com\/lapis-products.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Lapis Neckace by earthegy\" src=\"https:\/\/earthegy.3dcartstores.com\/assets\/images\/Products\/Necklaces\/208%20(3).jpg\" alt=\"Lapis Neckace by earthegy\" width=\"489\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lapis Neckace by earthegy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Want to know more about the mythology and legends behind gemstones? \u00a0Grab my ebook <em><strong>Stories of the Stones<\/strong><\/em> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.earthegy.com\/myth-book.html\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The intense blue color of lapis lazuli will make you remember this stone forever.\u00a0 In various civilizations and cultures this stone was used in jewelry and other decorative goods, and Cleopatra played an important role in the popularity of this stone. It&#8217;s said that she used pulverized lapis lazuli as eye shadow because of its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-info"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.earthegy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.earthegy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.earthegy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.earthegy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.earthegy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/blog.earthegy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1948,"href":"https:\/\/blog.earthegy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/1948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.earthegy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.earthegy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.earthegy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}