Rutilated Quarts Pendant: Yellow Turquois, Unakite & Bone

~ Rutilated Quartz ~

"Hair of Aphrodite" by the Greeks. "Cupids Dart" by the Romans. The Vikings believed the Rutile came from their goddess of beauty and love, Freyja. In Latin "Rutilus-red" given this name by its founder, Abraham Gottlob Werner in the 1800s. Rutilated refers to the mineral inclusions found in the quartz. Rutile is its own mineral of thin golden hairlike needles.