449g Black Obsidian Female Alien – Devil's Mirror

In the beginning there was a mirror, and the devil himself had made it. Thus begins Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Snow Queen” from 1844. All that is beautiful shrank to nothing there, all that is ugly grew to monstrous size. When his pupils carried him up toward the heavens to mock the angels themselves, he slipped from their grasp and shattered into hundreds of millions, indeed billions, of splinters. Whoever one of them flew into the eye of would thereafter see the world distorted; whoever it pierced the heart of, would turn into a lump of ice. Both happened to the little Kay, and the Snow Queen carried him away in her sleigh: a woman made of dazzling, glittering ice, with eyes that shone like two bright stars, yet without rest and repose. Her castle had walls of drifting snow, and its endless halls glowed with the aurora borealis. In its center lay a frozen lake, shattered into countless pieces; there she sat when she was at home, and called it the Mirror of Understanding. Eyes from this realm belong to this head. Her labradorite gleams vividly and broadly blue, wildly stirred like the northern lights over snow, tilting from turquoise to green depending on how the light falls. In its depths lie fine fissures like the cracks in the frozen lake, and at each of them light refracts anew. Around her, a feminine, alien face forms from obsidian, black as polar night: elegantly cut, silky and supple in every curve, and so deeply polished that it mirrors like ice. Labradorite belongs to the plagioclases, and already its name tells of breaks. The mineralogist August Breithaupt coined it in 1847 from the Greek words for “slant” and “break,” because the two cleavage directions of these feldspars do not meet at right angles, but at an angle. Along such planes, fine facets arise inside, and each of them reflects the light back. Thus the schiller shines not only from the depth, but glints along countless inner edges. In Andersen, it took only one tear to loosen the splinter from Kay’s eye. These eyes keep their splinters, and with them their light. Material: Obsidian (mineral- or mineraloid, amorphously solidified silica-rich lava); Eyes: Labradorite (plagioclase feldspar) Origin: Mexico Dimensions: 7.5 x 6.0 x 7.5 cm Weight: 449 g Special features: Feminine-appearing alien form with soft, flowing curves and high-gloss polish; set-in Labradorite eyes with strong, broad blue schiller and numerous internal cleavages that refract light multiple times; fine, arched hairline crack beneath the left eye

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