Petrified wood literally means wood turned into stone. The word petrify comes from the Greek word “petro” or "rock" - Petrify means “to change organic matter into a stony concretion by encrusting or replacing its original substance with a calcareous, siliceous, or other mineral deposits.” The way wood becomes petrified is a very interesting process. Petrified wood is a fossil in which the organic remains have been replaced by minerals in the slow process of being replaced with stone.

Petrified forests found today were living forests around 65 million years ago.

The first step for wood to become petrified is that trees end up being buried by sand or volcanic ash or some other substance and therefore take a long time to rot. They are also submerged in water. Most logs subjected to these conditions would simply decompose before the petrification process began, but for some reason they don’t in certain areas.

While they are buried, water with a lot of dissolved minerals enters into the wood and deposits minerals inside the tree’s cells, taking on the exact shape of the cell. Over time, all of the cells become filled with minerals while the organic matter decomposes. The resulting stone looks exactly like the tree.

Buddhist Monk looking at Bagan Temples, Bagan,  Myanmar (Burma).

   

                              Rare translucent head at the side.

Very rare example of translucent petrified wood at the head of the Buddha.

4.18 inches (106.2 mm) tall x 3.3 inches (83.93 mm) wide x 0.95 inch (24.16 mm) deep.

Petrified wood Spiritual and Healing Properties :

Petrified wood can assist anyone who is feeling stuck or experiencing being frozen in time. It helps to create balance and offers a foundation from which to launch new goals or undertake a different path. Petrified wood is also a wonderful grounding stone. It helps calm scattered energies.

Petrified Wood is an ideal stone for meditation because it will guide you in knowing what’s important and what’s not.
It will encourage you to stop obsessing about the things that you cannot control.

It will remind you to accept things as they are, and not sweat the small stuff.

When Petrified Wood connects to your root and third eye chakras, you will experience an increased sense of awareness and determination.

It will be very beneficial for you to have Petrified Wood when you’re not sure how to cope with a certain difficult situation.

This blessed  Phra Rahu Temple 'wishing' cloth comes from the Wat Srisathong Temple in Thailand.

This blessed and empowered temple cloth talisman is called a Pha Yant.

It can also be called a 'Cloth Yant' a 'Paa Yant', a 'Payant'  or a 'Yant cloth talisman'

This sacred blessed and empowered 'Pha Yant' sacred talisman can be framed and hung on a wall, hung on a wall as it is, carried with you in your pocket or placed in your car to grant you a safe journey. It can be given to a friend or loved one as a special sacred gift. This 'Pha Yant' is for your protection from evil and bad spirits, and will protect you against bad luck.  A 'Pha Yant' will protect you from danger. This 'Pha Yant' will grant you a long and healthy life and also grant your wishes. A sacred 'Pha Yant' can be given to grant blessings to a wedded couple to enable them to have many healthy children and to have a long and a happy marriage.  

**** If you write your wishes on the back of a blessed 'Pha Yant' they will be granted .