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It's interesting to compare this with belief in China about the qualities of jade:

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... in China and India, jade was a substance reserved above all for the gods. Jade was also associated with immortality.

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When the Chinese Princess Tou Wan died about 104 B.C., she was buried in a jade suit, through which it was thought she would achieve immortality [www.asor.org]

Another article -

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The Taoist philosophers taught that jade when swallowed under certain physical and ritual conditions could affect the body so as to produce immortality. If this result was not easily evident to the population, the number of burial jades would suggest that many of them did support the theory that the corpse could be preserved from disintegration by blocking the passages of the body with jade.

Lyons, .Elizabeth "Chinese Jades" Expedition Magazine 20.3 (1978): n. pag. Expedition Magazine. Penn Museum, 1978 Web. 02 Mar 2023 [www.penn.museum]

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