Om (AUM) Ganesha Pendant with Fine Cut Twin Garnet

Our Hindu Jewelry collections have been put together from regions such as India, the orient and other traditional Hindu regions to bring you jewelry which will adorn you both spiritually and physically.  Whether you are a practicing Hindu or simply trying to find some inner peace, Hindu jewelry is a beautiful and powerful way to bring comfort to those who wear it. Wherever possible we have sourced our jewelry products which benefit fair-trade and traditional craftsmen. As well as ensuring that the sale of these items benefits worthy causes, it also ensures that many of the products are individual and unique, quite often no two ever being exactly the same. In times past, what we now call jewelry was really charms and talismans. Bell anklets have originally been worn by Holy Men to warn the creepy-crawlies to get out of the way as an expression of non-violence. Jewelry has been worn throughout the ages by both men and women to protect themselves from snakes, ghosts, sorcery, bad luck, the evil eye and probably the mother-in-law.

The sterling silver standard has a minimum millesimal fineness of 925. Sterling is an alloy of silver containing 92.5 % pure silver and 7.5 % other metals, usually copper.  

Ganesha (Sanskrit: गणेश; IAST: Gaṇeśa); also spelled Ganesa or Ganesh and also known as Ganapati, Vinayaka, and Pillaiyar, is one of the best-known and most widely worshipped deities in the Hindu pantheon. His image is found throughout India Hindu sects worship him regardless of affiliations. Devotion to Ganesha is widely diffused and extends to Jains, Buddhists, and beyond India. Ganesha emerged as a distinct deity in clearly recognizable form in the 4th and 5th centuries CE, during the Gupta Period, although he inherited traits from Vedic and pre-Vedic precursors. His popularity rose quickly, and he was formally included among the five primary deities of Smartism (a Hindu denomination) in the 9th century. A sect of devotees called the Ganapatya (Sanskrit: गाणपत्य; gāṇapatya), who identified Ganesha as the supreme deity, arose during this period. The principal scriptures dedicated to Ganesha are the Ganesha Purana, the Mudgala Purana, and the Ganapati Atharvashirsa. Ganesha has been represented with the head of an elephant since the early stages of his appearance in Indian art. Puranic myths provide many explanations for how he got his elephant head. One of his popular forms, Heramba-Ganapati, has five elephant heads, and other less-common variations in the number of heads are known. While some texts say that Ganesha was born with an elephant head, in most stories he acquires the head later. The most recurrent motif in these stories is that Ganesha was born with a human head and body and that Shiva beheaded him when Ganesha came between Shiva and Parvati. Shiva then replaced Ganesha's original head with that of an elephant. People mostly worship Him asking for siddhi, success in undertakings, and buddhi, intelligence. He is worshipped before any venture is started. He is also the God of education, knowledge and wisdom, literature, and the fine arts.