{"product_id":"munachi-love-stone-peru","title":"Munachi Love Stone","description":"\u003cp\u003eMunachi hand carved soapstone love charm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe munachi is a Quachua charm used to enact love spells. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Quechua people who live in the Andes, in what are now the nations of Peru and Bolivia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Munachi\" is a Quechua word, a compound of the verb \"muna\" -- which means \"to desire, to want\" or, when applied to human beings, \"to love\" -- and the verb-modifying suffix \"chi,\" which means \"to cause to happen.\" One translation for munachi is \"to cause to love.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe couple is shown in the position Chretien de Troyes called \"head-to-head, heart-to-heart, and foot-to-foot,\" their arms wrapped about each other. They are kissing, faces pressed together, and there is a hole drilled through the stone to represent the space where their necks do not touch.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe munachi is used in a simple\u003cspan\u003e love spell\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eas follows: Two hairs, one from each of the lovers, are either wrapped around the lovers' necks or doubled and threaded through the little hole in the object and secured by making a larkshead knot. (For folks who are unfamilar with knotcraft, a larkshead is the knot that you often see used to attach sales tags to merchandise; it can be made in a closed or an open loop of line.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe munachi is not like the average\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003elucky charm \u003c\/span\u003ewhich is carried on the person because the hairs would be too valuable and fragile to subject to casual handling. Once prepared, it is kept in a safe place (e.g. beneath the marriage bed), or buried in the ground (e.g. beneath the door stoop or the bedroom of newlyweds). The burial of soapstone charm and \u003cspan\u003eamulets\u003c\/span\u003e is a significant part of the rituals of the Quechua and their neighbors, the Aymara. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eeach one is hand carved and unique in color, size , and shape. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eapprox 1\" long.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tesoros Trading Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032311251093,"sku":"CPMS","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0610\/3085\/8901\/files\/DSC_1600.jpg?v=1774561454","url":"https:\/\/mountainsidemade.com\/products\/munachi-love-stone-peru","provider":"Mountainside","version":"1.0","type":"link"}