[Rockhounds] Chabazite poem

[pmodreski at aol.com]

Interesting! (about the name and its misspelling)

And while I'm at it, I'll add the answer to my little joke, which was,

> But as a slight take-off on this, I can share my favorite silly mineral 
> riddle with you & the List (have I done this before?). Here's the > question: 
> 
> What can a dead dog, not do? 
> 
> (it has to do with minerals) 
> 
> (answer next time!) 



(it sounds like Julie got my little joke)... and for those of you who didn't think about it and want to take your own guess for the answer before you look at it, I'll paste in the answer way down at the bottom of all the repeated material in this reply email.

cheers, Pete







-----Original Message-----
From: Juergen Wachsmuth <JWachsmuth at gmx.de>
To: Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors <rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
Sent: Wed, 21 May 2008 9:45 am
Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Chabazite poem



Hello,
his is an interesting story. I do not think Mindat has all the facts here.
he greek word is chalazios (= hail), in the poem Lithika it is used as
halazie. But in the 18th century there was a wrong reading of the word,
habazios, and therefore Bosc d`Antic 1780 (or 1792) created the name
habazie. Later it was changed to Chabasie (Hauy 1801), Chabasit and
habazite.
n 1871 a new edition of Lithika, a greek poem written in the 4th century
.D.,  by Tyrwhitt corrected the error. Nevertheless the b in the mineral
habazite stayed.
Please let us know if you find out more.
Regards,
ürgen
lm - Germany
Kitty & Bill Heacox schrieb:
> I've found the following quote about the origin of the name, chabazite,
 on several websites including mindat.  Only problem is I can't find the
 poem.  I was curious to learn what the other 19 stones were, but can't
 find <Peri lithos> with or without Orpheus.  Since Orpheus is part of
 Greek mythology, it's not like looking for a genuine poet.  Anybody have
 any ideas?

  From Gk. chabazios, tune or melody, one of twenty stones named in the
 poem Peri lithos, which extolled the virtues of minerals. The poem is
 ascribed to Orpheus.

 Aloha, Kitty

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