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The grape-hued amethyst gemstone is most often associated with the god Bacchus and goddess Diana. According to the mythology, Bacchus, in a fit of anger, threatened to sic tigers on a young girl who worshipped the goddess, Diana. Diana intervened, turning the girl (whose name was Amethyst) to clear stone. Afterwards, a remorseful Bacchus poured wine over the stone maiden, turning her glowing purple. The stone is said to quicken wits, ward off intoxication and possess other medicinal uses.
AMETHYST is shrouded in a mist more than fabric, regardless of her attire. She sweeps about in fluttering light layers of soft silk and satin. Her long sun-lightened reddish hair falls in rivulets of loose wavy curls. A large faceted oval amethyst captured in silver rests on her right hand.
She is a believer in Fate, though perturbed that we are not each given a guidebook at the outset. Still, the discovery of threads through one's life IS the journey and she is always seeking, searching to know more about the weave of her life.
In real life, she finds the coincidence of her love of amethyst amazing against the fact that her real given name is Diana, same as the goddess who turned the original Amethyst to crystal to save her from Bacchus' tigers. She has always felt an affinity for the Roman Goddess of the Moon and the Hunt, as her namesake, and now her love of purple and the ultimate stone of it, amethyst... it all makes sense, lends credence to her basic belief in the Grand Design.
Amethyst is Diana's alter ego. She is the same soul without being tethered by the constraints of the real world. She can express herself as she wishes in the safety and comfort of the Sisterhood and does so with great pleasure. Amethyst serves as the Keeper of the Law. (And by her decree, all Laws are numbered #143.)
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