Ammonites are one of the very few meditation trinkets that contain ancient life force energy capable of being channeled into the present day. When we learn from our ancestral past can we grow and change.
Ammonites are an extinct group of mollusk animals, closely related to octopus & squid. They date back 420 million years, while the last known traces appeared 60 million years ago.
Its name is derived from the Egyptian god Ammon, who was depicted wearing a ram's horn. Pliny the Elder first recorded these fossils in 79 A.D. near Pompeii & named them Ammonis Cornua after their horn-like shape.
During the Middle Ages, Ammonites were considered fossilized snakes & called “snakestones” or “serpent stones”. Saxon Abbess Saint Hilda was tasked with removing snakes in order to build a church. Her duty was vital due to the belief snakes were the devil. Hilda cast a spell turning snakes to stone, & threw them off the cliffs. Because of this legend, Ammonites were believed to be a talisman against snake bites.
