Crystals and Mysticals

• Crystal Skulls

Crystal Skulls: Cracking the Ancient Code

It’s that time again. The season where winds whip, temperatures drop and human skulls reign supreme in the land of the living. Whether it’s colorful sugar skulls used in Day of the Dead celebrations, skull decorations so popular at Halloween in the United States or the skulls noted in Pre-Columbian archaeology, the human skull – made of a variety of materials – plays a key role. People’s fascination with the carved stone human skull – namely milky white or clear quartz crystal – is largely based on Aztec and Mayan iconography and more modern spirituality. However, known ancient Mayan skulls...