An ancient Tibetan story tell about the Hi-mori, an "airhorse" that
flies through the sky (similar to a Vimana) and carries with it the
sacred stone of Chintamani. In the 1920's a high abbot from the
Trasilumpo lamasery entrusted the Russian artist and discoverer
Nicholas Roerich with a fragment of this magical stone from another
world, the Chintamani Stone, alleged to have come from the Sirius system.
Ancient Asian texts claim that 'when the son of the sun descended upon
the Earth to teach mankind, there fell from the heaven a shield which bore
the power of the world. According to ancient texts the stone was sent from
Tibet to King Solomon in Jerusalem, who split the stone and made a ring
out of one piece...