Grief Meets Forgiveness

 Description
Price:  $700
Size:  20″ x 20″ x 1 1/2″
The largest stone used in this painting is Apache Tears.

Apache Tears

Apache Tears are said to especially relieve grief and sadness as well as assisting in giving and accepting forgiveness.  They can help release negative emotions, and they also can balance one’s emotional state. They are good luck stones, and are said to bring good luck to anyone who has one.  It is said that whoever owns one of these stones will never cry again, for the Apache women shed enough tears already.

Apache Tears are a type of Black Obsidian stone found in the south-western USA and Mexico.  The meaning of their name comes from an American Indian legend.

It was said that certain members of this tribe were pursued by the Cavalry, and although they fought bravely they were outnumbered.  Rather than be captured they jumped off the cliff to their deaths.  The distraught women of the tribe cried dark tears of grief that fell to the earth.  It is believed that their tears formed into these unusual stones so people will always remember what happened.