Shortly after Joshua's visit I received the following e-mail:

-----Original Message-----
From: Blue Star Maiden
To: orangebox
Cc: MoonHawk
Date: 23 March 2003 03:37
Subject: Skully and the Blue Star Maiden

Durring my peace meditation tonight with the Blue Star Maiden, I had Skully show up very powerfuly in a very real way. I have not had such a real presence from another skull in quit a while and was wondering if you were aware of any thing this day as well. The Blue Star Maiden is listed on your site and I am her care taker, MoonHawk. I am sending a few photos for you as the BSM ask me to introduce you formaly and ask her photo be given to Skully as well. I don't know if you would do this , I know you are buisy but the BSM was insistant and as Skully showed up so powerful I thought I would try . Please let me know if you can what I could do to be of help to you in any way, Love and light always, MoonHawk, Gary Butler.

Love ,compassion ,and forgiveness are goals we aspire to in this life, but in the world to come they are the foundations of all that will be. When we put a price on our love and compassion and our forgiveness we sell our soul for that price. To be truly free we must first free all those who are in debt to us. A burden we force another to carry is carried squarely upon our own soul. Be Free.

Two days later, I received a further e-mail from MoonHawk:

-----Original Message-----
From: Blue Star Maiden
To: D.
Date: 25 March 2003 17:43
Subject: Re: Reply from www.tobew.com
Dear Divina , Hi thanks for getting back to me. I guess I need to be a bit more spacific. First Joshua and I already know each other and have for a long while, , the Blue Star Maiden is in his new book. When I wrote you about Skully showing up it wasn't the first time, actually that was about two years ago when the BSM showed me many skulls around the world in a vision, your Skully was there and has been off and on, it was just last week it was more powerful , however you may be right, the BSM and Joshuas Portal are bonded and if portal was around Skully that would explain the presence. However I think it has more to do with the work the BSM and Skully were doing at the time. The Blue Star Maiden is an Ancient Spirit of a skull carved long ago, and the spirit in the skull, the Grandmother energy from the pleadies came to me in a vision just before the the year 2000. She asked me to create a new home for her to work through here on the earth plain. I am Hopi Indian Trained and am a carver of sacred medicine pipes for the tribal Elders, have been carving for 50 years. Had never Carved Crystal before but when asked I knew I had to try. The skull was carved from 1 crystal 30 pounds in weight. It was carved first in one piece as I was told in the vision and then the jaw detached at the end before the polishing. She has been awake and present now for over two years and is very wonderful. We do meditations and prayer work with her and two times a week groups come to chant with her for healing and peace. Her true name, Sors Soohu Tuumasi is Hopi for the Blue Star Maiden, is her true name from the long ago times. She has been blessed by native Elders and works with many tribal groups. She would love to be in your gallery and would love to have a photo of skully to be with her that is new, could you send me a photo please for her Altar so they can have that connection. Thanks, MoonHawk / Gary Butler.

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At completely the other end of the scale, I was also contacted by a young man called Chris who's collection of crystal skulls is growing at a very healthy rate. Chris kindly allowed me to present some images of his beautiful skulls and has promised to send images of his other skulls in the near future. Image (left) the crystal skull called Wisdom.

--Original Message-----
From: Stephen Russell MELVILLE
To: orangebox@quista.net
Date: 12 March 2003 11:49
Subject: Fw: Skulls2
The Green Skull is carved from Blue Obsidian ( The element skull) , i called him.. "Cha-Cha-Hama" The Dark somkey Quartz is an OLD skull, and called, "Mysterio" ( The Centinal skull) The Clear quartz was carved 100+ years ago sort off 1900, i called him "Wisdom" What do u think? This is 1 of my skulls ( Carved from one of the finest Quartz) Called him " Mystic" send others in seperate e-mails Cant send 4 skulls ( Havent got round to photographing them yet but when i do i'll send om over!) the other 4 skulls i can send now!

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Russell MELVILLE
To: D. Date: 14 March 2003 18:19
Subject: Story!artical....
i hope you like it if not i'll do another 1, i cant type very neat and if the spellings wrong it's suppost to be like that! What first got me into Crystal Skulls was a book, (me and my mum ran a book shop) and a man came in and asked if we knew any thing about the crystal skulls, no I replied so he left us a book on the subject of crystal skulls, and I sort of read the book the crystal skull fad sank in. Until about 5-6 years later ( 2002) I acquired my very first crystal skull from a little crystal shop in felsted (England) it was carved from Blue Obsidian and it earned the name "Cha-Cha-Hama ( The Element Skull) later in the year during my day in Southend as usual I went in a shop called Spell-bound (I am a regular shopper in there) I remembered they had a couple of antique Crystal Skulls for sale, I bought 1 that day (carved from Smokey Quartz) and it earned the nickname.. "Mysterio" ( The Centinal Skull) and the next week I acquired the second Crystal Skull ( Quartz Crystal) and gave it the name "Wisdom". ( The Heeler Skull) Then in February of 2003 I found yet another Crystal Skull in GT Yarmouth Norfolk (UK) It was carved from one of the finest Quartz Crystal, and i gave it the name "Mystic" (The Psychic Skull) and its truly is stunning, In February-March of 2003 I acquired 4 More crystal skulls, 2 from a psychic fare, (Quartz Crystal) and 2 from the internet, The two from the psychic fare earned the name "Skully" and "PIP" (pip got that name because his tiny) unfortunately the other two haven't arrived yet, (There Quartz crystal, and Rose Quartz) but when they do I'll let you know) By Chris 13.

One thing that my recent experiences have demonstrated is that the number of crystals skulls currently being carved is growing fast. It seems that everybody wants a crystal skull of their own... And why not, when these objects can truly be described as beautiful and mysterious.