Ancient civilizations worshipped the lapiz lazuli and turquoise as holy stones for their mystical blueness. Ancient Afghans and Mesopotamians, who crafted the earliest examples of Lapis lazuli jewelry and turquoise jewelry dug by archaeologists and dating to as far back as 3000 BC and being in trade for more than 6000 years, revere the blue stone and imbue it with such great powers that range from nurturing and heightening spirituality in a person, unleashing creativity in artistic or even latent individuals, to even some sort of a psycho-physiological panacea. Thus, lapis lazuli & turquoise jewellery—the ultimate symbols of integrity and friendship--have been highly regarded both for their blues alleged curative interventions as well as psychic associations.

Lapiz lazuli—lapis is Persian for stone and lazhward for blue and is used as blue pigment to come up with ultramarine paint—blue is the result of the mineral lazurite, a very complex
blue mineral that gives the semiprecious stone its name and hue. Turquoise on the other hand derives its wide-range of color properties—from greenish to dark blue, as in pierre turquin or dark-blue stone as its ancient name translates into—from particles of copper for the blue tinge and from iron for the greenish hue. This gamut of blueness has been held holy by most of the world's cultures, giving blueness in all its hues and tints a mythical even legendary and religious, even supernatural, significance.

Among the most popular associations that give weigh to this special treatment is the persistence and ubiquity of the color blue in the natural environment—and in or among natural processes:

(1) Blue signifies the reviving air that we breathe—A chest that freely inhales and exhales air is a chest that is free and alive and well;

(2) Blue is the color by which the world's waters appear;

(3) Blue is the color by which the heavens are most often depicted—by association, blue is the color of truth, and of commencements, and even of reincarnation;

(4) Blue “is the vision of clear, radiant skies”; and,

(5) Blue is the color most representative of peace and serenity, harmony and optimism, a new day beginning and a new life.