The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #25 December 2014 | Page 37

healers arc an important part of
the choice for life-affirming
values with their insistence on
real values above technologyfor-its-own-sake and their
insistence on cleaning up the
earth and on healing
themselves and correcting
current abuses.
Laying on of stones is a method
that survived Atlantis and the
matriarchies' destruction. In
more recent history than
Atlantis, the Egyptian Pharaoh
Queens, early queen-healers
like Mentuhetop (2300 BCE)
and Cleopatra (69-30 BCE)
worked extensively with
coloured stones in healing
patterns. Egyptian healing was
respected In the Middle East
and Africa and healers from
several nations came to Egypt to
learn methods from these
women. The learning was
spread by students to the
Mediterranean and later from
Greece to Europe. India was
also known as a healing centre,
claiming with Egypt its
invention of various healing
skills including gemstone work.
Work with coloured gemstones
and crystals was highly
developed in India, probably
from matriarchal times. In

Native America, shamans and
medicine women of a number of
tribes carried crystals in their
medicine pouches and used
crystal patterns and turquoise
was used extensively on various
parts of the body in the North
American Southwest.

Striking similarities between
the Indian Goddess Sarasvati.
the Chinese Goddess Kwan Yin
and the South American
Goddess Chalchluhtltque
indicate that the ancient
cultures had knowledge of each
other or a common origin such
as Atlantis.
The Goddesses are drawn much
alike in art and both Kwan Yin