{"product_id":"kansho-guardian-of-the-north-handmade-lapis-lazuli-collar","title":"KANSHO Guardian of the North Handmade Lapis Lazuli Collar","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlack Tortoise — Lapis Lazuli\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eGuardian of the North\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe Black Tortoise is unlike the other three guardians in one important way: it is not one creature, but two — a tortoise, and a snake coiled around its shell, forever entwined. Ancient texts read this as a marriage of opposites, water and earth, stillness and movement, holding each other in permanent balance. It is the guardian of the North, the direction of deep winter, when the world outside goes quiet and what matters is what has been stored away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eLapis Lazuli has been prized since antiquity for a blue that seems to hold actual depth — not flat pigment, but something closer to night water, flecked here and there with pyrite like scattered starlight. It was ground for pigment, carved for seals, buried with the dead as a stone meant to accompany them into stillness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEach collar is braided by hand in dark navy and dust blue paracord, the two tones settling into each other like dusk into night. The Black Tortoise watches the North: the direction of water, of winter, of endurance that asks for no applause.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KANSHO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46724597678159,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/5107\/2847\/files\/2copy.png?v=1790164532","url":"https:\/\/kanshopets.com\/products\/kansho-guardian-of-the-north-handmade-lapis-lazuli-collar","provider":"KANSHO","version":"1.0","type":"link"}