Both in Atlantis and in Central and South America, gold was extensively mined and treasured, not for any intrinsic value, but for its association with elder “gods.”
Purpose: The primary goal was to mine gold, which the Nephilim used to stabilize their planet’s atmosphere.
Smuggling gold, art, and patents to South America.
She is dressed in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls.
They used gold and silver and a vanished precious metal known as orichalcum in enormous quantities for ornamentation.
In them was gold in profusion.
They raised cotton and made cotton goods; they probably cultivated maize, wheat, oats, barley, rye, tobacco, hemp, and flax, and possibly potatoes; they built aqueducts and practised irrigation; they were architects, sculptors, and engravers; they possessed an alphabet; they worked in tin, copper, bronze, silver, gold, and iron.
In 'its markets must have met the maize of the Mississippi Valley, the copper of Lake Superior, the gold and silver of Peru and Mexico, the spices of India, the tin of Wales and Cornwall, the bronze of Iberia, the amber of the Baltic, the wheat and barley of Greece, Italy, and Switzerland.
A single engraved tablet dredged up from Plato's island would be worth more to science, would more strike the imagination of mankind, than all the gold of Peru, all the monuments of Egypt, and all the terra-cotta fragments gathered from the great libraries of Chaldea.
They at that early date possessed the plough; also wheat, rye, barley, gold, silver, and bronze.
They used fire, and cooked and baked their food; they wove cloth and wore clothing; they spun wool; they possessed the different metals, even iron: they had gold.
vii., 21), and for secreting which Achan lost his life, was probably a garment of silk; it was rated above silver and gold in value.
"'The sky was full of the fairest colorsPink and purple and paly green,With great soft masses of gray and amber,And great bright rifts of gold between.
In the course of twenty-five years after the Conquest the Spaniards sent from Peru to Spain more than eight hundred millions of dollars of gold, nearly all of it taken from the Peruvians as "booty." In one of their palaces "they had an artificial garden, the soil of which was made of small pieces of fine gold, and this was artificially planted with different kinds of maize, which were of gold, their stems, leaves, and ears.
Besides this, they had more than twenty sheep (llamas) with their lambs, attended by shepherds, all made of gold." In a description of one lot of golden articles, sent to Spain in 1534 by Pizarro, there is mention of "four llamas, ten statues of women of full size, and a cistern of gold, so curious that it excited the wonder of all."
Can any one read these details and declare Plato's description of Atlantis to be fabulous, simply because he tells us of the enormous quantities of gold and silver possessed by the people?
If the story of Plato is true, there now lies beneath the waters of the Atlantic, covered, doubtless, by hundreds of feet of volcanic débris, an amount of gold and silver exceeding many times that brought to Europe from Peru, Mexico, and Central America since the time of Columbus; a treasure which, if brought to light, would revolutionize the financial values of the world.
"We may end by observing, what seems to have escaped Señor Lopez, that the interior of an Inca palace, with its walls covered with gold, as described by Spaniards, with its artificial golden flowers and golden beasts, must have been exactly like the interior of the house of Alkinous or Menelaus--
"'The doors were framed of gold,Where underneath the brazen floor doth glassSilver pilasters, which with grace upholdLintel of silver framed; the ring was burnished gold,And dogs on each side of the door there stand,Silver and golden.'"
They possessed gold and silver money.
They worked in gold, silver, copper, bronze, and iron; they tempered iron to the hardness of steel.
Their dentists filled teeth with gold; their farmers hatched poultry by artificial beat.
To see gold jewellery of the highest order, the student should examine that of the ancients, such as the Egyptian, Greek, and Etruscan."
The table was ornamented with vases of silver and sometimes gold of delicate workmanship.
But when we ask bow it chanced that gold and silver came to be used as money, and why it is that gold is regarded as so much more valuable than silver, no answer presents itself.
more than the extraordinary value set upon gold and silver by the Spaniards; they could not understand it.
A West Indian savage traded a handful of gold-dust with one of the sailors accompanying Columbus for some tool, and then ran for his life to the woods lest the sailor should repent his bargain and call him back.
All these nations were familiar with gold and silver, but they used them as sacred metals for the adornment of the temples of the sun and moon.
The color of gold was something of the color of the sun's rays, while the color of silver resembled the pale light of the moon, and hence they were respectively sacred to the gods of the sun and moon.
And this is probably the origin of the comparative value of these metals: they became the precious metals because they were the sacred metals, and gold was more valuable than silver--just as the sun-god was the great god of the nations, while the mild moon was simply an attendant upon the sun.
The Peruvians called gold "the tears wept by the sun." It was not used among the people for ornament or money.
The great temple of the sun at Cuzco was called the "Place of Gold." It was, as I have shown, literally a mine of gold.
Walls, cornices, statuary, plate, ornaments, all were of gold; the very ewers, pipes, and aqueducts--even the agricultural implements used in the garden of the temple--were of gold and silver.
Toledo took, in 1577, $4,450,284 in gold and silver.
American Antiquities.) The gold and silver of Peru largely contributed to form the metallic currency upon which Europe has carried on her commerce during the last three hundred years.
Gold and silver were not valued in Peru for any intrinsic usefulness; they were regarded as sacred because reserved for the two great gods of the nation.
As we find gold and silver mined and worked on both sides of the Atlantic at the earliest periods of recorded history, we may fairly conclude that they were known to the Atlanteans; and this view is confirmed by the statements of Plato, who represents a condition of things in Atlantis exactly like that which Pizarro found in Peru.
Doubtless the vast accumulations of gold and silver in both countries were due to the fact that these metals were not permitted to be used by the people.
In Peru the annual taxes of the people were paid to the Inca in part in gold and silver from the mines, and they were used to ornament the temples; and thus the work of accumulating the sacred metals went on from generation to generation.
Now, as the Atlanteans carried on an immense commerce with all the countries of Europe and Western Asia, they doubtless inquired and traded for gold and silver for the adornment of their temples, and they thus produced a demand for and gave a value to the two metals otherwise comparatively useless to man--a value higher than any other commodity which the people could offer their civilized customers; and as the reverence for the great burning orb of the sun, master of all the manifestations of nature, was tenfold as great as the veneration for the smaller, weaker, and variable goddess of the night, so was the demand for the metal sacred to the sun ten times as great as for the metal sacred to the moon.
the Greeks, and the Romans designated gold was the Sanscrit word karat, which means, "the color of the sun." Among the Assyrians gold and silver were respectively consecrated to the and moon precisely as they were in Peru.
It was composed of seven stages, equal in height, and each one smaller in area than the one beneath it; each stage was covered with stucco of different colors, "a different color representing each of the heavenly bodies, the least important being at the base: white (Venus); black (Saturn); purple (Jupiter); blue (Mercury); vermillion (Mars); silver (the Moon); and gold (the Sun)." (Lenormant's "Ancient History of the East," vol.
thou shalt drive in a chariot of Ukni stone and gold,11.
of which its body is gold and splendid its pole12.
all I possessed I collected of gold,79.
Who saith: Resurrection come by reincarnation, first a stone, then lead, then silver, then gold, then a tree, then a worm, then an animal and then man, or that a spirit reenter the womb, and is born again in mortality, or,
And whosoever came and joined a colony, bringing gold or silver or valuable goods of any kind, donated them to Jehovih, and not to the colony, to be distributed according to the light thereof for the Father's kingdoms.
Interspersed, here and there, on the walls and arches, were hanging gardens of flowers, and drapery of gold and silver.
You* clouds of purple and yellow and burning gold, and in flames of fire.
And you**** ripened harvests that beckon and wave like sheets of gold.
Write Him in stone and iron, copper, silver and gold.
Lauding their seventy million schools and colleges, and their sea Seinthius, with its waters of silver and gold, and three million crystal stalagmites.
Git'm'gow', the moon much receiving; the gentle moon, she send forth the gold light, the or (Ebra).
Igwam, gold.
The living things upon it, and in the waters, and every breathing thing, and pearls and diamonds, and gold and silver; and at my hand, the rose and the lily, adorned by the Hand of Elohim.
And he should have a Mukagawin, the true sign of poverty, and it should be his jewel, made of copper and gold.
The duties of her inspiration to mortal women were to clothe themselves and to decorate themselves with gold and silver ornaments.
As to the attraction (so-called) between two earth substances, as granite, or sandstone, or lead, or gold, or clay, or water, it is far less than between two steel magnets.
And if the solution contain iron and gold and platinum, and other metals, the observer is apt to erroneously suppose he hath discovered these things within the photosphere or atmosphere of the sun.
Consequently the solutions in the higher atmosphere not only contain moisture, but they contain iron, lead, zinc, gold, platinum, clay, granite, diamonds and all other things known to exist on the earth, and many others besides.
And as to their chariots, they were bound with silver and gold, and set with precious stones.
But things had changed wonderfully as to the Eguptians, for when they beheld the Israelites were indeed going, and knew the miracles that had taken place, they relented, and brought them gifts of gold and silver; and also asses and camels for the Hebrew women and children to ride upon; and gave them food to eat.
With all his treasures of gold and silver, what hast thou?
He built schools and colleges, nurseries and hospitals, and factories for silk cloth, and linen cloth, and cotton cloth, and for paper; and factories for making glass, and leather; and factories for smelting iron, and copper, and silver, and gold.
Whether they have an idol of stone, or of wood, or of gold, or of copper, they should be destroyed.
And whether of fish, or worm, or stone, or ores, or iron, or silver, or gold, or copper, they had learned to read its worth and nature.
The wicked in heart, having profited in herds, and in gold and silver, say: Behold, God hath blessed me!
A light, bright as a sun, stood in the midst of the circle, and it was higher than the clouds, and displayed a staff on which was a banner of gold and silver; and on the banner, stars clustered to spell the words, Love, Wisdom and Power!
Whe-ish said: For all the gold and silver in the world I would not go there this night.
He hath neither gold nor silver, nor house nor land; and he is without spiritual sight or spiritual hearing; but his glory is in understanding his own understanding.
Behold, the king send you gold, silver and copper, saying: Brahma is good!
Brahma send the king's servant, even the captain-general, back to the king, with his gold, silver and copper, saying: Deal you with thy Creator and not with men!
The captain-general departed and returned with his gold, silver and copper to the king, and told the king Brahma's words.
Now, wherever justice live I know not; but many of the rascals who became followers of my father were conscience-stricken with ill-gotten gains, and, finding that my father would not receive their stuff, they tried me, and behold, my pockets are full of gold and diamonds.
Therefore, if I give of gold or diamonds to those soldiers, they will give me a horse for my angel mother to ride on.
Who know but by the way of those soldiers is the nearest road for this gold to find its way to Ormazd?
The angels also taught man to make pots and kettles; to burn the clay in suitable shape; to find copper ore and silver ore, and gold and lead for the floors of the oracle chambers, clean and white shining, suitable for angels.
And they were such as lived according to their highest light; they purified the flesh by pure food, and by bathing every day; and they went about doing good constantly, hoarding up neither clothes, nor silver, nor gold, nor anything earthly.
Its colleges became famous, and its observatories were of such magnificence that their roofs were covered with silver and gold.
And with his voice, his hosts, in concert, quickly piled the adamantine seat, and hung it round with transparent tapestry, woven with the elements of silver and gold.
But even in this day, behold, the mother barter''' off her daughter to a rich man; and the man seek''' a spouse of wasted flesh for the sake of gold.
To the great cities of O'wan'gache and Nathon; and Neshesh, and Tesumethgad, and Naphal; and Yeshuah, by the Lake Owane (Nicaragua), here stand the tower of Rakowana, shining with copper and silver and gold.
They dress not in gaudy colors, nor ornament themselves with copper and silver and gold.
Behold his palaces and temples; his work in stone and iron, and gold and silver; his knowledge of the sun and moon and stars; with written books to read; with clothes for the body and shoes for the feet.
In testimony of my voice receive you* this raiment of silver and gold from My archangels.
And there descended, as if a small star, far lengthened out, a light of gold and silver, and it settled on God's hand, and he fashioned it into a crown, and emblazoned it with the sign GOD OF TEK, and placed it on Ha'jah's head, saying: In Jehovih's name, you* I crown, to sit on the throne in Hored during my absence.