Lapis lazuli owes its blue color to a Trisulfur | sulfur radical.

Lapis lazuli has also been identified in Chinese paintings from the 10th and 11th centuries, in Indian mural paintings from the 11th, 12th, and 17th centuries, and on Anglo-Saxon and Norman illuminated manuscripts from c. 1100.

Lapis lazuli specimen ( rough ), Afghanistan

Lapis lazuli ( or, ) ( sometimes abbreviated to lapis ) is a relatively rare semi-precious stone that has been prized since antiquity for its intense blue color.

Lapis lazuli was being mined in the Badakhshan province of Afghanistan as early as the 3rd millennium BC, and there are sources that are found as far east as in the region around Lake Baikal in Siberia.

Lapis lazuli is a rock, largely formed from the mineral lazurite.

Lapis lazuli usually occurs in crystalline marble as a result of contact metamorphism.

Lapis lazuli is found in limestone in the Kokcha River valley of Badakhshan province in northeastern Afghanistan, where the Sar-e-Sang mine deposits have been worked for more than 6, 000 years.

Image: Lapis lazuli p1070260. jpg | Carved lapis lazuli mountain scene, from the Chinese Qing Dynasty ( 1644 – 1912 ).

Image: Lapis. elephant. 800pix. 060203. jpg | An elephant carving on high-quality lapis lazuli, that includes gold-colored pyrite, is a rare example of Mughal inspired art.

* Lapis lazuli at Gemstone. org

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Iuppiter Lapis is the god under whose protection they act, and whom the chief fetial ( pater patratus ) invokes in the rite concluding a treaty.

Wissowa argued that while Jupiter is the god of the Fides Publica Populi Romani as Iuppiter Lapis ( by whom important oaths are sworn ), Dius Fidius is a deity established for everyday use and was charged with the protection of good faith in private affairs.

Wissowa argues that while Jupiter is the god of the Fides Publica Populi Romani as Iuppiter Lapis, by whom the most important oaths are sworn, Dius Fidius is a peculiar deity established for the everyday use, i. e. in charge of the protection of good faith in private affairs: he would be the correspondent of Ζευς Πίστιος.

Iuppiter Lapis was held in the Roman Tradition to be an Oath Stone, an aspect of Jupiter is his role as divine law-maker responsible for order and used principally for the investiture of the oathtaking of office.

' Here no doubt the underlying notion is not merely symbolical, but in origin the stone is itself the god, an idea which later religion expressed in the cult-title specially used in this connection, Iuppiter Lapis. In Chapter Two: The ' Antecedents ' of Roman Religion.

Only one minor building survived, the Ruri-dō ( Lapis Lazuli Hall ), which is located down a long, unmarked path from the Sai-tō complex ; it is marked on maps, however.

Underneath the Lapis Niger is the Vulcanal, an altar to the god Vulcan, two pedestals, an honorary column base and an ancient stele, which is the oldest part of the shrine.

Bhaiṣajyaguru (), formally Bhaiṣajyaguruvaidūryaprabharāja (, ‘ Medicine Master and King of Lapis Lazuli Light ’), is the buddha of healing and medicine in Mahāyāna Buddhism.

Lapis Lazuli is a color that is a representation of the most common color of lapis lazuli.

Lapis is another product of Nergal's labs, created with the hopes of re-creating the success of Ruri Hoshino, and is part of the One-Man, One-Ship Project.

The child has the ability to transform from male to female -- when female, she is called Lazuli ; when male, he is called Lapis.

Given the complete name of " Lapis Lazuli ," " Lapis " refers to the time when the protagonist is male and " Lazuli " when female.

Some aspects of the oath-ritual for Dius Fidius ( such as proceedings under the open sky or in the compluvium of private residences ), and the fact the temple of Sancus had no roof, suggest that the oath sworn by Dius Fidius predated that for Iuppiter Lapis or Iuppiter Feretrius.

Lapis jewelry has been found at excavations of the Predynastic Egyptian site Naqada ( 3300 – 3100 BC ), and powdered lapis was used as eyeshadow by Cleopatra.

Meanwhile the latter's caretakers, named Hamadryad and Ishtar, both give birth to female clones of him, their Y-chromosome being replaced by an identical copy of the X chromosome, producing " daughters " named Lapis Lazuli and Lorelei Lee.

Some aspects of the ritual of the oath for Dius Fidius, such as the proceedings under the open sky and / or in the compluvium of private residences and the fact the temple of Sancus had no roof, have suggested to romanist O. Sacchi the idea that the oath by Dius Fidius predated that for Iuppiter Lapis or Iuppiter Feretrius, and should have its origin in prehistoric time rituals, when the templum was in the open air and defined by natural landmarks as e. g. the highest nearby tree.

File: Blue Lapis Light Aerial Dance Maya. jpg | Site specific dance by Blue Lapis Light at the Texas State History Museum in Austin, Texas

* The Homogenization of Global Consciousness: Media, Telecommunications and Culture, an Article by Jerry Mander at Lapis Magazine Online

Similar legends may be found in Wolfram von Eschenbach's description of the Holy Grail as the " Lapis Exillis ", guarded by the Knights Templar, or in the Philosophers ' stone of the alchemists, the " Lapis Elixir ".

* The Sutra on the Original Vows and Merits of the Medicine Master Lapis Lazuli Light Tathagata ( 藥師琉璃光如來本願功德經 ): English Translation by the Chung Tai Translation Committee

This was followed by Lapis Lazuli blue and Mandarin Yellow.

Initially, Neons were available in many bold colors including Nitro yellow-green, Lapis Blue, Aqua, and Magenta, however paint color choices became more subdued by the 1998-1999 model years, as the majority of buyers opted for more traditional colors.

File: Statue of György Dózsa Nagylak. jpg | Nagylak, work by Lapis András

* Article by Goodrick-Clarke in Lapis Magazine, Issue 5.

The albums Guilty Gear XX in LA and Guilty Gear XX in NY include vocals for selected songs, as do three albums in Japanese by the band Lapis Lazuli.

The small boudoir has a shallow apse screened by two Ionic columns of Scagliola imitating Lapis lazuli.

Lapis was later rescued during a rescue operation conducted by Nergal, and given the Nergal-designed Corvette Eucharis, which she controls entirely on her own.

Even as hates Diamond for killing his parents and acknowledges that the Habit is one of the greatest dangers to his quest, Lapis comes to accept that his female half, Lazuli, loves Diamond, and by default, he loves Diamond as well.

He is seriously wounded by one of Diamond's conjurations but he commits suicide on Tourmaline's blade to give Lapis his power, leading to an elaborate set of armor for Lapis and panther's head decorations on Tourmaline's.

" He allows himself killed by Lapis to release his power, which manifests as a pair of enormous feathered wings on Lapis's back.