This is a malachite crocodile carving that represents ancestral healing. Malachite is used for heart transformation and releasing energy trapped in the heart. The owner of this malachite crocodile should be a meditator who wishes to honor their ancestral endurance, pain, and karma.

Crocodiles are still honored as ancestors throughout parts of South and Southeast Asia, including in the Philippines. There we refer to crocodiles as Lola, Lolo, Nono, and other names of reverence. Traditionally, our people lived alongside these great beings for thousands of years without fences or other modes of separation.

During colonization by the Spanish, priests and government officials punished the witches, sorceresses, and healers for over 300 years by feeding them to crocodiles in our lagoons. But before colonization many clans and tribes, especially warrior-class people, traced back their origins to otherworldly crocodile-like people. The crocodile can be a human ancestor, a shapeshifter being or witch, or a diwata or deity who lives in the water.

Trinidad consecrated this amulet as a talisman in the Dragon Mountain monastery in California. Use this amulet in rituals that connect you to your bloodlines, the forgotten dead, water deities, and water anitos.