Shark Teeth | Ancient Strength & Ocean Protection

A fossil shark tooth. Sharks shed and replace teeth continuously through their lives, tens of thousands of them, which is why the teeth are the part that survives in quantity while the cartilage skeleton does not survive at all.

In Hawaiian tradition, shark tooth ornaments known as lei niho palaoa marked rank, power and protection, and were worn by ali'i. Across the Pacific and along the Atlantic coast the tooth has carried much the same meaning: strength, courage and safe passage on the water.

It sits well with anyone doing protection work who wants something older than a carved symbol. This is a real tooth from a real animal that hunted an ocean nobody has ever seen.

Practical Ways to Use

• Carry one for courage, or before travel over water.
• Set it on an altar for protection work that wants something with teeth in it.
• Keep it with sea glass, salt or shells for ocean work.

Each is unique, and we will energetically choose one for you.

Why We Carry It

A dollar fifty for a genuine fossil tooth. Sharks shed and regrow teeth their whole lives, which is why these survive in the numbers they do.

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