This fabulous collar de mazo features the colors and patterns of 43 gods and goddesses. It was made for me by a young student, Christopher. Alas, a week after he completed and delivered this, he disclosed to me that he was at Stage 4 of an incurable illness. He died half a year later, leaving several commissioned projects undone, and I was sorry that he was too embarrassed to tell me of his affliction earlier on.

These are the 43 entities I greet by name in a foribale every morning, upon waking up.

I keep this item in an antique, Pakistani chest plated with chased silver and encrusted with bloodstone cabochons, my birthstone.