Mirror Mirror on the Wall
Posted by admin - 31/08/10 at 05:08 pm
WishGoodLuck.com has been updated with a new article on Mirrors and Luck by Chitraparna Sinha.
Mirrors, a source to see your reflections, have been in existence since 6000 BC. You will often find that any object of antiquity that we still use today often has a vast amount of history behind them. With time, people somehow forget the line between history and myth, and turn them into objects of superstitions or let’s say, try to associate the objects with beliefs bordering on good luck and/or bad luck.
Before mirrors were ‘discovered’, early civilizations use to see their reflection in still water. Interesting! Don’t we still do that? I am not exactly sure how mirrors were discovered but evidence shows they have been in use by Mesopotamians and Egyptian civilizations of past ages. The first evidence of mirrors were found in modern day Turkey (earlier called Anatolia); that time mirrors were only polished stone, called obsidian, a naturally occurring volcanic glass. [...]
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