Garuda is described in one text as emerald in colour, with the beak of a kite, roundish eyes, golden wings, and four arms and with a breast, knees, and legs like those of a kite.
One of Alchemy's most famous texts, The Emerald Tablet, conveyed the secret of alchemical transformation through a set of principles, one of which is quoted at the start of this article.
In the Live Cinema exhibition that took place in Sao Paulo last year, Kaue presented Thelesmi, an audio-visual performance inspired by the generative alchemical text of the Emerald Tablet.
Blessed with pitch-perfect concentrations of chromium and vanadium, the elements that transform plain beryl into a crystal cocktail of extreme desire, Muzo emeralds were adored by the Moguls, who engraved them with verses of Islamic text or fashioned giant emerald crystals into wine goblets.
H&R Block, the tax preparation company, has teamed up with Metavante and Monitise Americas to provide Emerald Prepaid MasterCard cardholders access to mobile phone text messaging to check their balances and receive account reload mobile alerts.
I suspect close scrutiny will show that the Paris Opera and Bolshoi perform "Emeralds" and "Diamonds" in texts slightly different from those currently used by City Ballet.
Or watching your emerald ring flash when you've been sent a text message?
The Emerald World agreement was much closer to unreadable: dense blocks of text, lawyerly prose, clearly intended to cause eye glaze.
Caption text and some photos courtesy of Bucket List Bars (Emerald Book Company, 2013).
Ms. Huhtanen, a 40-year-old jewelry buyer for Bergdorf Goodman who was wearing black Prada pants and sporting a large emerald on her right finger, at one point grew amused with Ms. Fields's texting.
