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Legend and Lore of Copper use by humans is a long and varied, dating back nearly 10,000 years with multiple applications.

Copper is, in fact, humanity’s first metal and shows up in Sumerian and Egyptian metallurgy circa 3900 BC.

 

Egypt

 

Egyptians were among the first human cultures to use Copper, but they were also one of the first to develop Bronze, a mixture of Tin and Copper, and usher in the Bronze Age of human history.

As early as 3900 BC, they were developing Copper products that became more and more common and eventually showed up in common household items such as cooking pots.

By 2500 BC, Egyptian jewelry makers had developed Copper working to such a level that they were creating crowns and headdresses made of the metal.

 

Asia

 

Copper use had spread to Asia quite quickly after its development in the middle East, but most examples remaining are from the last few centuries.

Indian use of Copper excelled and their techniques soon spread to other parts of Asia.

Beyond common uses, Asian cultures and religions, such as Buddhism and Hinduism, used Copper in the creation of fantastic inlays, embossed facades on palaces and temples, and ceremonial vessels.

 

Copper in Pre-Columbian America

 

Copper use in Pre-Columbian America seems to have developed independently around and possibly before the time that it began in the Middle East.

Metal working by some cultures was so advanced by the time Europeans arrived, that the techniques the native workers had developed rivaled those of the invaders.

Pre-Columbian Americans used Copper for bells, ornaments, weapons, beads, earrings and armor of very good technical quality.

 

Christianity

 

Many Christian rituals traditionally call for the use of Copper, so much so that their uses are too numerous to list here.

The Copper will Work:

• Due to the fact that copper is such a wonderful physical conductor of electricity and heat.

• it is also considered the conductor of the spiritualist's belief system.

• According to myths, copper has the ability to conduct spiritual energy back and forth between individuals, crystals, auras, the mind and the spirit world.

• It is also believed that copper has the power to amplify thoughts when sending and receiving psychic communications.

• New Age followers carry copper with their stones and crystals to 'straighten' the properties of them, as well they are used when crating crystal wands to be certain of their clear and straight powers.

• Copper is also quite instrumental in the physical and mental healing rites of many peoples of this world

• Brings great intensity and passion to bear in its elemntal form.

• It enhances emotional release.

• Copper aids in attunement between the spiritual and mental bodies