#clymene goddess

[diana-thyme]

Greek Gods 101: Clymene

Clymene is a goddess of fame and renown. Excluding the universal offerings, some common offerings include:

Pearls

Tickets (to movies, concerts, etc.)

Flowers (especially roses)

Love Letters

Heart Related-Things

Flower Crowns

Pretty Fabric or Dresses

Expensive Jewelry

For devotional acts, some activities that can be done for her include:

Wearing Nice Jewelry

Dressing How You Want to Be Perceived

Working Hard

Receiving or Sending Flowers

Opening Mail

She is not celebrated in any Athenian holidays.

[sarafangirlart]

Omg there’s a Danaë retelling let me check out the synopsis- oh…

[romance-club-daily]

Romance Club MC's as Greek deities:

Emma as Clymene (or Asia):

Goddess of Fame and Renown 🌟

Clymene (or Klymene) was a Titan goddess in Greek mythology, daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys, thus making her an Oceanid. She was the goddess of renown, fame, and infamy. She was married to the Titan Iapetus, and they had four sons, Atlas, Epimetheus, Prometheus and Menoetius. Clymene was also called Asia and in this guise identified as the Goddess of Anatolia. In ancient Greek vase paintings she appeared as a handmaiden of Hera. Emma was chosen for obvious reasons, as we can see her trying to achieve fame at all costs in My Hollywood Story.

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[hermesmoly]

Kinda interesting that besides the former King Cronus and Queen Rhea, Theia and Hyperion are assumingly the only couple who were able to have a lineage mighty enough for their children to be the personification of the Sun, Moon, and Dawn respectively. Not to mention being able to KEEP that role despite no obvious alliance with Zeus during the Titanomachy. (Helios and Selene get semi-replaced by Apollo and Artemis but still maintain their positions enough that Helios has a role in Hephaestus, Demeter, and Heracles' stories) (also Zeus never seeks out a replacement for Eos as the goddess of Dawn which makes me think that they are amiable with each other)

Compare that to Iapetus' four sons getting fucked in four different directions, Coeus and Phoebe's only real relevance being Leto and their grandchildren by Zeus and being grandparents to Hecate, Oceanus and Tethys producing and losing Metis while their other numerous children play minor to adequate roles, and Crius' sons merely being "husbands" to more well-known deities (Eos, Styx, Asteria). (Astraios being the biggest research disappointment because you'd think the husband of the Goddess of Dawn would be the God of Dusk and have an active role during sunset but no, he's just a God of the stars sadly).

(Of course, there are also Themis' and Mnemosyne's daughters by Zeus, who are very important, but like Leto's case it helps that their children's father is the King of The Gods and Zeus x Titanesses is almost 99% guarantee they get good roles) (then there's Prometheus Bound where Prometheus' mother is Themis only which is cool but I mostly consider Clymene as his mother)

[zareleonis]

Since all the Oceanids in Genshin are named after real Oceanids from Greek myth, here are some of my favorite Oceanid names that I think could’ve been Furina’s name before she became the god Focalors:

Adrasteia: goddess of “inevitable fate,” representing “pressing necessity” and the inescapability of punishment. scarily on the nose for Furina’s story.

Beroe: mentioned in Virgil’s Georgics as the sister of Clio—“Clio and Beroe her sister, daughters of Ocean both, both arrayed in gold, and both in dappled hides.” Technically all the Oceanids are sisters but I like that Beroe is specifically mentioned alongside Clio, the namesake of the fictional Oceanid whose story mirrors Furina’s.

Calypso: means “she who conceals” or “like the hidden tide”

Ceto: means “sea monster” or “whale”—I like the irony of this being Furina’s Oceanid name when the prophecy is caused by a giant whale monster

Clymene: means “fame”

Eurynome: means “wanderer” or “ruler”

Galaxaura: means “calm” or “the charmer” or “like the refreshing coolness of a shady stream”

Iache: means “cry” or “shout” or “shriek”

Peitho: means “persuasion” or “winning eloquence”

Perse/Persa/Perseide/Persea/Perseis: means “destroyer”

Phaeno: means “appear” or “reveal” or “shine”; I really like the idea of Furina’s Oceanid name starting with F/Ph like her other names.

Philyra: means “linden-tree,” which is a kind of tree found in Fontaine. This tree has symbolic significance in many cultures, even being associated jurisprudence/justice in Germanic cultures. And for some big delusion, in the medieval poem Nibelungenlied—one of the inspirations for Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, from which the Dragon Sovereign King Nibelung’s name is likely derived—the hero Siegfried gains invulnerability by bathing in dragon blood, but a single linden leaf sticks to him in the process, creating his sole point of invulnerability. A fitting name for the former Oceanid who has a reincarnated Dragon Sovereign with a very big soft spot for her.

Theia: means “divine”

Urania: means “heavenly”; this is actually used in game as the name of the “Hateful Oceanid” enemy we fought during the Legend of the Vagabond Sword event, so in truth it probably can’t be Furina’s name. What makes it intriguing to me is the location on Erinnyes called Loch Urania, which is no doubt named after the Oceanid Urania, whoever she is.

[masp161]

Astro Observations #V

Asteroid Clymene, derived from the goddess of Fame and Fortune, might likely show where you are seen as potentially popular/famous, where and how you can achieve fame

Gemini/3rd House is associated with Society/People

Popular opinion : Sidereal birth charts describe you more

Sag Mercury will always have something to talk about, even if nothing happens in their lives. They just always have something interesting

The energy or attachment style you have with the sign in your 12th House can reflect your type of trauma and insecurity

I can easily see the dark minds of the zodiac being XXTPs or XXTJs (See Briggs Myers test) since XXTPs/XXTJs are not only mentally focused people, but that need to focus on the mind more than the heart usually tends to come from early trauma OR emotional absence of any kind. Their capacity to live on their own terms and spontaneity can be an aftermath of being left alone to deal with their trauma, forging their personality, leading to XXTPs.

Cancer/Capricorn 1st/3rd/4th/9th/10th or Mars/Saturn/Moon can often be perceived as parental, their energy. They radiate the parental energy that they lacked as a child, especially if the planets are retrograde

Pisces Mars people have a power to get revenge through karma because most of them tend to have an Aquarius Mars in their Sidereal Chart, Aquarius being the sign of Karma along with Capricorn, and Mars being the planet of intense emotions

What pisses people off about Pisces Mars is their emotional unavailability or diversity : their natural state of needing or having lots of people physically attracted to them but them not wanting anything. They also, Pisces Mars, have tendencies to just not settle for inclusivity.

Cap Pluto are a generation of pretending doms who want to rule but are submissive in bed.

Most Mutable Venuses are least likely to confess their feelings not entirely because they're not interested in love, but because they don't wanna admit or acknowledge their emotions until they're certain it's mutual. They don't like to look like fools.

What if all Libra Risings soulmate were themselves. Their 7th house, after all, is ruled by a sign representing the self.

I don't think, after all, that Saturn in your birth chart only shows how karma works for you. But rather what trace you leave on people.

The ugly part of astrology that people don't want to face is having North Node or personal planets in water houses (4th, 8th, 12th). They are indicators of the psyche. Indicators that the lifetime will be a lot of focus on the ugly parts of the self, of humanity, on healing and understanding those around us in order to understand ourselves.

My opinion :

Tropical Charts are the physicality of things, physical you, physical events

Sidereal Charts are the emotionality of things, emotional you, emotional reactions, you being you

Draconic Charts are the Ideal, the perfect you, the you with no concept of good or bad, with no concept at all, just yourself

(To be reviewed)

People with Cancer placements, Neptune in the 4th, or Neptune in Cancer can pretty much remember anything, even drunk or high.

People, in my opinion, with their north nodes in the 7th/8th/12th house have this kind of inevitable lesson, that they mastered in youth but lost over many years of trauma, to learn on how to let go of ego and work on their inner selves. And learn to let go of themselves and harmonize with the world/the universe.

Before any hate, let me explain why I didn't add the 9th/10th/11th House. To me the 9th house is about the philosophies and world views, not directly how we get to be extremely dependent of the world whether we want to or not. The 10th house is more close on how we can rely on people, but North Node in the 10th isn't necessarily involved in a spiritual AND emotional (both together) level (and in case you mention the 7th house, the 7th house is about the shadow part of ourselves and in some occasions the soul level of attachment we can have to somebody). And 11th house is more on the society/friends level. I see it also as a sort of independence house, where you can learn to not need people.

If the 2nd house is about knowing who you are and standing firm on knowing who you are, then the 8th house is the opposite : realizing you don't know who you are because you are constantly changing/evolving. Thus, people with the North Node in the 8th House, know that it's normal to feel like you don't know who you truly are because you're always changing. It's part of your journey.

Convince me otherwise, but Cardinal Moons are impulsive smartasses, especially when undeveloped or overdeveloped

Air signs, Scorpio, Pisces, Saggy and Capri LOVE doing personality tests more than the other signs (check out sun, moon, rising and dominant) generally because they tend to lack a fixed identity despite them saying they HAVE an identity. Sometimes they even redo the same tests just to be sure they won't change their score or answer. Part of them also loves discovering themselves through others (hence the internet tests).

[meirimerens]

i once saw a fanfic where someone used to describe Daniil (or more specifically Diana. as it was a sex-swap fanfic) as having "eyes like those of a calf" and i found that interesting. beautiful even. in russian there's also an epithet волоокий (volo'okiy), and in english there's ox-eyed, and in (ancient? as i saw it in reference to goddess Hera) greek there's βοῶπις (boōpis)... what do you think of this?

unsure what you mean by "what do [i] think of this" cos i feel like i'm not really picking up the specific branch you're trying to get me to grab. the description of brown eyes as "like those of a cow/calf" is a very common phrasing especially in modern informal/non-published writing (fanfic). do not remember what the original source of it is, but i've been seeing it on tumblr & in nonpublished writings for 10 years now (i say nonpublished because it has an informality + a youth to it which does not make it into published works, except of they are self-published, and it is quite a like. Tropey phrase). i am willing and able to bet money that no fanfic writer who writes a character as having "brown eyes like that of a calf" is thinking of ox-eyed βοῶπις Clymene and Hera (which from what i gather refers not to the brownness but to the size), no english fanfic writer is thinking of волоокий when typing that out (a russian fanfic writer? they can do whatever they so wish. it's their word). this website got infatuated with bovines like 5 years back (as it should. they're so cutes) & cows and calves have deep dark brown eyes that, especially in calves, confer them a depth, cuteness and earthy quality that one would very much notice if they were in love with someone with brown eyes (BEEN there).

what i am thinking is that it is fascinating that different cultures & languages have adjectives that specifically refer to the cow for eyes that are big and beautiful, especially with women in mind & often with a romantic undertone ("cow-eyed", in english, refers again not to the brownness [which is what most fanfic writers are honing on when they write one's as as being brown like that of a calf] but to a wide-eyed expression with unstated, bashful romantic intent). not necessarily applicable to daniil, but to diana........ by the gods it can stay. it must. overjoyed to hear about волоокий as well actually i cannot write russian for the life of me but i'll keep this word close to my chest... need to use it... i'll find a use for it... but i can give you a single 5€ bill in bet that the numbers of writers who have hera clymene ox-eyed cow-eyed volo'okiy adjective in mind when writing about a character having "brown eyes like that of a cow" can be counted on less than my two hands. especially when the brownness is the factor they're pointing out & not the size [which is what ox-eyed seems to refer to more than the color]

[littlesparklight]

"Then the son of Atreus drew his sword, and drove at the projecting part of his helmet, but the sword fell shivered in three or four pieces from his hand."

There's one thing that's kind of funny when it comes to Paris that that quote from the duel in Book 3 sort of is connected to. Some unfortunate event that by all appearances have no divine involvement, yet works out in Paris' favour. And, unlike Menelaos' sword shattering into pieces*, the other two events I'm thinking of look a lot worse and more suspicious, if you're a character in-world and have only partial knowledge. (*Obviously, realistically, breaking your sword, especially when slamming it into such a spot, isn't particularly impossible. But given that weapons aren't generally prone to break in epic unless a god was involved, the fact that there doesn't seem to be any involved here looks... funny, doesn't it? Menelaos certainly at least complains to Zeus after this, especially as he also attempted to call on Zeus before he attacked Paris.)

The first of those two Very Suspicious-Looking Events is the death of the Dioskouroi.

Mainstream/standard later version makes very clear there never was divine involvement in the events that led to Kastor's death/resurrection and Polydeukes being given immortality, aside from Zeus backing up Polydeukes. Paris is never anywhere near them, and rather, as is the version in the Bibliotheke, immediately ends up in Sparta. But in the Epic Cycle's Kypria, Paris is first hosted (not in Sparta) by the Dioskouroi. The only reason he's sent on to Helen and Menelaos by the Dioskouroi is... because the Apharetidai turns up and want to go on a raid with Kastor and Polydeukes. The raid that leads to Kastor being killed.

Funny timing, isn't it? And yet - nowhere is there any whiff of a suggestion that any god (not Aphrodite, not anyone else) or fate has anything to do with this. It's just events that work out in Paris' favour. (Doubly so since it removes the Dioskouroi from pursuing him or taking part in the war.)

The second event is the death of Katreus.

Getting informed of his grandfather's impending funeral is what gets Menelaos to leave Sparta, leaving the field open for Shenanigans to happen (much more easily than they otherwise could have).

It is very, very convenient, isn't it?

And yet, here is what Bibliotheke has to say: [3.2.1] But Catreus, son of Minos, had three daughters, Aerope, Clymene, and Apemosyne, and a son, Althaemenes. When Catreus inquired of the oracle how his life should end, the god said that he would die by the hand of one of his children. [...]

(Katreus hides the oracles, seeming to be ready to do what few others being told adverse oracles do in Greek myth; do nothing. But his son finds out and leaves, taking one of his sisters with him.)

Bibliotheke again: But afterwards in the grip of old age Catreus yearned to transmit the kingdom to his son Althaemenes, and went for that purpose to Rhodes. And having landed from the ship with the heroes at a desert place of the island, he was chased by the cowherds, who imagined that they were pirates on a raid. He told them the truth, but they could not hear him for the barking of the dogs, and while they pelted him Althaemenes arrived and killed him with the cast of a javelin, not knowing him to be Catreus.

Whether Katreus knows (as here) where his son is or not, it'd take time for him to get to Rhodes. It'd take even more if he doesn't know the location of his son and has to search the whole damn sea for him. Either way, he would certainly have left for his journey somewhere before Paris even steps foot on Lakedaimonian soil. And again, we have no gods involved in this; just an old man wishing to retire/hand over his crown with grace to his son, and thus seeking him out. Fate takes its course, as the prophecy he was once given said it would, long, long before Paris ever judged any goddesses - more than that, long before he was even born!

But if you're a character that is part of the world, and doesn't know all these separate steps and events... again, it looks quite suspicious, doesn't it?

Disaster seems to follow in Paris' soft-stepping wake.

[squippers]

Over the ages, the universe became more crowded with additional gods and goddesses.

The primordials Erebus and Nyx got together and made Aether (God of Light) and Hemera (Goddess of Day).

The Titans weren't idle either. Oceanus and his sister, Tethys created Amphrite, Dione, Metis, Pleione, Thetis, and hundreds of other, second generation Titans.

Iapetus married one of his nieces—the Oceanid, Clymene—and they together created Atlas, Prometheus, and others.

Hyperion took his sister, Theia, and they created Helios (sun), Eos (dawn) and Selene (moon).

Coeus married his sister, Phoebe and they created Leto who later became the mother of Artemis and Apollo.

[masteryoftheseas]

@takenamiss​ asked: “Do you know my father?” He asked carefully, lips pressing together in a shy sort of way. Lelantos had asked questions when he was a boy but soon realized how pointless it was. He would never meet him. He would never know if there was any.. resemblance. But now that they were being released.. well.. he was going to meet him, right? And for a rare time since boyhood he was feeling anxious. Perhaps he could win some information from someone who had also once been a stranger to his father. Surely Eurybia had met him due to the friendship between him and his uncle. His mother had told him that Coeus was sensitive in his own way, intelligent, focused. But he had heard plenty of bad things, too. Stoic, insensitive, cruel, selfish. Perhaps his mother was biased. Blinded. Or perhaps not. He wished he could get some clear idea of him, so he’d know what to expect. Or perhaps avoid.

  At first, Eurybia was at a loss for words. Perhaps she should have expected the inquiry but not directed toward her. She only knew Coeus through Crius and rarely conversed with him alone. She talked more with Phoebe and even more with Asteria after she married Perses. Coeus was unsure about pairing any of his daughters with Crius’s sons although the sea goddess never understood why. Despite Crius’s disappointment in them, he still prided himself on having the best suitable sons to marry off to the other titans their ages. Hardly the brutes Iapetus and Clymene created. But once Eurybia and Phoebe handled arranging Perses and Asteria, he started to sway to the idea. 

  She didn’t have anything that would satisfy Lelantos’s curiosity and it saddened her to disappointment him. She couldn’t offer him a lengthy character study about his father and spin tales of their times together. He wasn’t her friend. Just a brother in law through Crius. Crius was one of Coeus’s closest friends but he wasn’t around to provide the titan any details. 

  “I knew him, yes, but not intimately. My husband...your uncle Crius did though. They were great friends and understood each other in a way that’s hard to describe. I think it’s because they are not as loud and savage like your other uncles. Crius and Coeus had to be the ones to ground your uncles and perhaps Oceanus if he was around.” Eurybia finally answered him with a sigh. “Coeus was always courteous and polite to me whenever I was around. He didn’t talk much but also I didn’t with him. If anything, we really only talked when it came to arranging my son Perses and your sister Asteria. He was quite protective of her but Perses wasn’t one to worry about. Now if my eldest son Pallas married Asteria or Leto, then there might have been an issue.” She chuckled softly.

[sarafangirlart]

The Oceanids 🌊🌊🌊

From left to right:

Metis, Zeuxo, Hera (she was adopted by Oceanus in some myths) Clymene (with a mirror), Amphitrite (with a brush), Doris and little Thetis, Tyche, Eurynome and Electra.

[romance-club-daily]

RCD Edits Masterlist~

Random:

Lori x Adelaide Crossover

Q30 Queen x Teacher

Halloweekend 2023:

Jake and Kim as Ariel and Eric

Benedict and Sophie as Belle and Adam Ball/Peasant

Ari and Vera as Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth

MCs as Greek Goddesses:

Selena as Selene | Catherine as Khione

Nikkal as Hestia | Emma as Clymene

Amber as Iris | Laia/Lale as Psyche

Theodora as Hebe | Liv as Bia

Adelaide as Gaia | Irene as Hecate

Agatha as Nemesis | Yasmin as Tyche

Lori as Amphitrite | Vicky as Persephone/Kore

Michelle as Terpsichore | Mia as Phoebe

Renée as Aphrodite | Lou as Athena

Audrey as Astrea | Chloe as Peitho

MCs as Disney Princesses:

Jaynie as Cinderella (Ball | Peasant)

Nova as Snow White (Princess | Peasant)

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Prometheus, the Titan God of Fire. Source: mythnerd.com

Atlas and Prometheus

PROMETHEUS, the creator of mankind, whom some include among the seven Titans, was the son either of the Titan Eurymedon, or of Iapetus by the nymph Clymene; and his brothers were Epimetheus, Atlas and Menoetius.

Gigantic Atlas, eldest of the brothers, knew all the depths of the sea; he ruled over a kingdom with a precipitous coastline, larger than Africa and Asia put together. This land of Atlantis lay beyond the Pillars of Heracles, and a chain of fruit-bearing islands separated it from a farther continent, unconnected with ours. (Atlas and Prometheus, The Greek Myths by Robert Graves, pp 143-149)

Atlantis was an exceptional civilisation with baths, race courses, palaces, fearsome armies and great harbours, but its people were filled with self regard and pride so the gods sent a deluge that submerged the mighty kingdom in a sea of mud. In the meantime Atlas joined the ill-fated Titans’ assault on Olympus. Menoetius was killed in that battle and after the Titan’ defeat, Atlas was required by Zeus to hold up the heavens on his huge shoulders, which he has done ever since. Prometheus was wiser than his brothers and fought on the Olympians’ side in that war. Embraced by Athene, Prometheus learned much about architecture, mathematics, navigation, medicine, astronomy and the arts from the goddess and he passed his knowledge onto mankind, whom he loved. One night, the Titan lit a torch from the Chariot of the Sun and taking a glowing shard of charcoal, he crept out of Olympus and gave mankind the gift of fire.

Zeus was infuriated at this betrayal. The King of Heaven was already doubtful about mankind and with fire, he feared men may one day challenge the gods. Zeus therefore designed a gruesome punishment for Prometheus. He had the Titan chained naked to a pillar in the Caucasus Mountains where a vulture tore out his liver every day, and each night it grew again so the torture could continue. Without Prometheus, woes befell mankind. The capricious and immature Pandora, created by Zeus as a foolish and superficial woman, was wife to Prometheus’ brother, Epimetheus. The curious woman opened a sealed jar that Prometheus had ordered her husband to keep shut at all costs and so released the Spites of Old Age, Labour, Sickness, Mental Illness, Vice and Lust which swarmed out of the jar to afflict all mortals.

Graves believes the Atlantis legend was a memory of the attested Bronze Age flood of the Minoan island of Pharos, although more recent study is of the view that the entire Atlantis story was an invention of the philosopher Plato who wished to parody the states of Athens, Sparta and Persia of his own time.

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clymene, goddess of the renowns, fame, and infamy (asteroid 356217)

Clymene was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys and married off the Titan Iapetus. Together the two were said to determine how long and for what a moral would be remembered for after they had lived. Clymene was also the mother of some rather important titans like Atlas and Prometheus - neither of whom can or will be forgotten in myth. In some versions, it is said that she was loved by Helios, the sun god (sometimes it is just another nymph with the shared name of Clymene though). In that version, she is often connected to the rare event of a solar eclipse; for she had the ability to turn the attention of the sun god. IN MY OPINION Clymene in your chart represents a) what you produce/create that is famous/popular, b) how you with be remembered, and/or c) the attention you receive.

i encourage you to look into the aspects of clymene along with the sign, degree, and house placement. for the more advanced astrologers, take a look at the persona chart of clymene AND/OR add the other characters involved to see how they support or impede clymene!

OTHER RELATED ASTEROIDS: prometheus (1809)!

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TOP 3 Legends About Amber

TOP 3 Legends About Amber

Avicenna also wrote about the healing properties of amber.

In ancient times, it was believed that there was no disease that could not be cured with amber. It is also popularly known as the "sunstone". The succinic acid found in it and other types of amber increases the bioactive elements in a person in an effective and natural way.

Here are some legends related to this wonderful creation of nature:

Legend 1:

Phaethon in ancient Greek mythology was the son of Helios (Phoebus, an epithet later given to Apollo) and the oceanid Clymene. Phaethon boasted to his friends that he was the son of the sun god. However, they refused to believe him and Phaeton went to his father, who promised him everything he asked for. Phaethon asked to drive his father's golden chariot for a day. Helios tried to dissuade him, but to no avail - Phaethon was adamant. When the day came and he drove the chariot, he panicked and lost control of the white horses he was driving. The chariot caught fire, the earth caught fire. Africa has become a desert. The waters and rivers boiled. Earth would have perished if not for Zeus. He forced himself to strike the horses, the chariot, and the Phaeton with lightning. The white horses ran away - only the Erinyes could find them and bring them back. His mother, Klimena, searched for his ashes on the ground for a long time. Finally she reached the banks of the Eridanus River. Phaethon's sisters - the Heliads - wept on her shore inconsolably. Finally, Zeus got tired of their tears and turned them into fir trees. Then everything on earth began to return to the old way. Only the desert and the Milky Way remain as reminders of the recklessness of Helios and his son.

But even now transformed into trees, the sisters continued to cry. Their tears fell and turned into resin from which amber was later formed. Years later, the sea still spills their amber tears on its shores...

Legend 2:

Norse legend represents amber in the form of tears of the goddess of love and fertility Freya, who mourns her missing husband.

Legend 3:

The legends of Vedic Russia describe amber in a different way - as joy, as a great gift that all people of the world can use for healing. In Russia, the Alatyr stone had a sacred meaning. The stone possessed great magical power as it was a scaled-down copy of the universe. The Alatyr-stone was revered as the father of all stones. This is proven by the "Deep Book" (modern "Pigeon Book") - this is a Slavic spiritual verse that tells about the origin and integrity of the world.

Legends or not, amber still enjoys great attention to this day, did you know that a stone must be at least 1 million years old to be classified as amber? If you want to own a piece of jewelry made of amber, you can check here - kehlibareno.com