The Azrael Lapis Ring is a 925 sterling silver band set with a lapis lazuli stone and named for Azrael, the angel who carries the soul out of the body in Islamic and Jewish tradition. The stone sits raised at the top of the ring, and the silver around and below it is worked in scrolling detail.Lapis carries pyrite inside the rock, so specks of gold catch the light against a blue that stays deep and opaque. Azrael stands for the passage out of a life rather than for the fear of it, worn here as a symbol rather than as a religious piece.