Nor is there on the earth or in it one thing, even iron, or lead, or gold, or water, or oil, or stones, but the same things are in My atmospherean worlds.
Think not, O man, that corporeal things are annihilated because they disappear; for as a drop of water evaporate and rise in the air as unseen vapor, so do all corporeal things, even earth, and stones, and gold, and silver, and lead, become as nothing in the firmament of heaven in course of time.
He fashioned a basket of gold, imbuing it with not only craftsmanship but also symbolic significance, given that he was a divine craftsman of the Olympian gods.
Now Europa’s basket was of gold, an admirable thing, a great marvel and a great work of Hephaestus, given of him unto Libya the day the Earth-Shaker took her to his bed, and given of Libya unto the fair beauteous Telephassa because she was one of her own blood; and so the virgin Europa came to possess the renownèd gift, being Telephassa was her mother.
The Ten Commandments: Biblical laws, while on stone, are often symbolically linked to divine splendor akin to gold.
Laws of Manu: Hindu laws from Manu carry symbolic ties to prosperity and divine truth, often associated with gold.
In the fields we had not only barley, oats, and rye, but wheat which shone like gold, and which could be baked in the sun’s rays.
When they were well established, the Magyars sought our friendship, they praised our language and customs, our cattle and iron weapons, which they would willingly have exchanged for their gold and silver ornaments, and they always kept their people within their own boundaries, and that outwitted our watchfulness.
Twelve ships were then laden with wine, honey, tanned leather, and saddles and bridles mounted in gold, such as had never been seen before.
A good hundred years ago Denmark began to trade; they gave their iron weapons in exchange for gold ornaments, as well as for copper and iron-ore.
They were decked with all kinds of flowers, and the girls’ dresses were fringed with gold from the Rhine.
Not with pearls, for her teeth were more white; not with gold, for her tresses were more brilliant; not with precious stones, for her eyes, though soft as those of a lamb, were so lustrous that you could scarcely look into them.
Whitney’s gold mine discoveries.
Whitney’s gold mine discoveries: claim vs missing proof model.
It lists a series of hidden treasures, detailing locations, quantities of gold, silver, and other valuables that are supposedly buried across various sites.
Treasure Descriptions: The descriptions specify enormous amounts of gold, silver, and other precious materials, using phrases such as "in the cave in the valley of X, 7 bars of gold are buried."
Description: Small gold figurines from the Tolima culture, resembling modern aircraft with aerodynamic shapes, possibly showing early knowledge of aviation principles.
Description: A 4th-century CE Roman glass cup that changes color depending on the light source, due to a technique involving gold and silver nanoparticles.
Josiah Dwight Whitney, the State Geologist of California and a respected geologist, documented a series of findings from gold mine excavations in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
The findings primarily emerged from mine shafts that miners had dug into deep layers of volcanic tuff and river gravels in search of gold.
To this day, Whitney’s gold mine discoveries are sometimes cited by those who challenge conventional views of prehistory, particularly by proponents of alternative archaeology or out-of-place artifacts (OOPArts).
Whitney documented artifacts and human remains from California gold mines, suggesting an age of around 50 million years.
California Gold Mine Discoveries:
Whitney documented human bones and artifacts found in California gold mines in rock layers dating to 50 million years ago.
Cases like the California gold discoveries and metallic spheres imply a human presence far older than the currently accepted timeline.
The Ark of the Covenant (Hebrew: אָרוֹן הַבְּרִית, Aron HaBrit) was a gold-covered wooden chest containing the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments.
Aprocryphal scripture tells that Adam directed that his body, together with gold, incense, and myrrh, should be taken aboard the Ark and, after the flood, should be laid in the middle of the earth.
As there was no disease or death, the population increased so that it was necessary to enlarge the earth after 300 years; Yima accomplished this with the help of a gold ring and gold-inlaid dagger he had received from Ahura Mazda, the Creator.
He descended on a gold chain, poured sand on the water, and loosed a hen to scatter the sand (forming hills and valleys).
One day the deer came and led the man to a buried treasure of gold and silver, and the man became rich.
Gold and bones found in that hill came from those people.
Gold, silver, copper, and iron represent directions and elements in sacred teachings:
West: Gold or brass (yellow metal)
She describes herself with long, flowing blonde hair and a gold-colored, fitted garment with intricate details.
He is often depicted with a fan that can resurrect the dead and transform stones into gold, symbolizing the transmutation of base desires into higher understanding.
He means by the golden men not men literally made of gold, but good and noble men; he says we are of the 'age of iron.' He called them demons because they were δαήμονες (knowing or wise)."
The foregoing description of the Golden Age of Chronos, when "men were rich and lived in plenty," reminds us of Plato's description of the happy age of Atlantis, when "men despised everything but virtue, not caring for their present state of life, and thinking lightly of the possession of gold and other property;" a time when, as the chants of the Delaware Indians stated it (page 109, ante), "all were willingly pleased, all were well-happified." While the description given by Murray in the above extract of the degeneracy of mankind in the land of the gods, "a period of constant quarrelling and deeds of violence, when might was right," agrees with Plato's account of the Atlanteans, when they became "aggressive," "unable to bear their fortune," "unseemly," "base," "filled with unrighteous avarice and power,"--and "in a most wretched state." And here again I might quote from the chant of the Delaware Indians--"they became troubled, hating each other; both were fighting, both were spoiling, both were never peaceful." And in all three instances the gods punished the depravity of mankind by a great deluge.
"The learned Pezron contends that the division which was made of this vast empire came, in after-times, to be taken for the partition of the whole world; that Asia remaining in the hands of Jupiter (Zeus), the most potent of the three brothers, made him looked upon as the god of Olympus; that the sea and islands which fell to Neptune occasioned their giving him the title of 'god of the sea;' and that Spain, the extremity of the then known world, thought to be a very low country in respect of Asia, and famous for its excellent mines of gold and silver, failing to Pluto, occasioned him to be taken for the 'god of the infernal regions.'" We should suppose that Pluto possibly ruled over the transatlantic possessions of Atlantis in America, over those "portions of the opposite continent" which Plato tells us were dominated by Atlas and his posterity, and which, being far beyond or below sunset, were the "under-world" of the ancients; while Atlantis, the Canaries, etc., constituted the island division with Western Africa and Spain.
102), "have in their houses an incredible number of vases, and utensils of all sorts, of gold and silver, beds and tripods of silver, and all the furniture of astonishing richness.
Their buildings have porticos with columns sheathed with gold, or surmounted by capitals of silver.
On the friezes, ornaments, and the framework of the doors they place plates of gold incrusted with precious stones."
It may be said that it is improbable that the use of an alphabet could have ascended to antediluvian times, or to that prehistoric age when intercourse existed between ancient Europe and America; but it must be remembered that if the Flood legends of Europe and Asia are worth anything they prove that the art of writing existed at the date of the Deluge, and that records of antediluvian learning were preserved by those who escaped the Flood; while Plato tells us that the people of Atlantis engraved their laws upon columns of bronze and plates of gold.
Metallurgy.--The Atlanteans mined ores, and worked in metals; they used copper, tin, bronze, gold, and silver, and probably iron.
The Peruvians called gold the tears of the sun: it was sacred to, the sun, as silver was to the moon.
The Peruvians had such immense numbers of vessels and ornaments of gold that the Inca paid with them a ransom for himself to Pizarro of the value of fifteen million dollars.
Exactly the same conception occurs in Grimm's "Mährchen," when the two gold-children wish to see the world and to leave their father; and when their father is sad, and asks them how he shall bear news of them, they tell him, "We leave you the two golden lilies; from these you can see how we fare.
The other head bears that of a hand with a bouquet (xochitl, a flower, and quetzal, shining in green gold).
Erik confirms that gold, along with other precious metals like crystal quartz and diamonds, was incorporated into the pyramid's structure.
It is regarded as a key text in alchemy, holding secrets to the Philosopher's Stone, an alchemical substance believed to transform base metals into gold.
According to Hermeticism, the true goal of alchemy is not merely physical transformation but the transmutation of the soul into spiritual "gold." The ancients believed that humanity had devolved from a higher spiritual state, and through alchemical practices, individuals could reclaim their spiritual potential.
But this standard was not regarded with unfailing confidence; it was feared some error had crept into the original calculation, and while if it had the rod of gold used as a register would have served all purposes, being unchangeable, still such is the human wish to be as perfect as possible, that, as I have said, the fear of an error annihilated confidence.
of bronze metal and gold, very slight, but all sufficient to bar unwelcomed progress.
"Thou saidst that thou didst find treasure of native gold in two separate places.
"But they who now work this mine, and they who receive the gold-dust and ore shall not so escape.
The gold had formed in God's great crucible where matter formeth by a method man cannot grasp but through the aeons, for no speck of time can so create that man may turn and say: "Behold the wonders of the earth and sea which have been formed in this brief span of time!"
Aye, emeralds the men had brought even from Atlantis; globes whose worth meant fortunes for each owner journeying, but so sacred they that none dared barter for the gold each saw yet dared not gain at risk of ruined life.
Pale marble spake to sense as flesh were there all animate, and subjects wrought in bronze spake from the temples vast whose paves were laid in symbols, marble flecked with golden groups of birds, or histories wrought in gold and metal fair that science had commingled.
The cups for feast were beaten not from gold, but shaped of that transparent stuff which tossed to pave doth fall in fragments.
Still other cups were wove from crystal as a basket grows from taper fingers, each clear strand apart, yet so welded to its fellow that the wine passed not between; in color cups like these were blue or gold or mocking wine with redness.
Gold was beaten fair in dish for flesh and trays to bear the food from fire to banquet hall.
Not gold but other metal played the part of furnishing the men of old Atlantis * their most useful implement; but that thou graspeth of fine gold was wrought, of "silver," brought from far and greater value held than gold which lay
All were won from him—the smith—with grains of that pure metal—"gold" to commerce known.
No coinage they attempted; scales had they for weight and grains of gold were laid thereon.
The tissue, clear and strong as gold, doth melt to Time's hot touch, but shape of frame have ye in "museum," lauded as some great pedestal, staff, "the origin of looms," perhaps, but never music instrument.
Messages of growth stood forth on parchment, sheets of gold or bronze, ye call, of which they, too, did make them gates as well as barques to carry thither, yon, all merchandise.
"Bring hither from Atlantis sacks of gold," he read, "twice twenty.
We send thee linen—honey—swords and javelins broad." And he, with ready stylus, at the disc marked on his tablets: "Twice twenty sacks of gold they from the upper Nile desire."
Little felt at first the power, but later, when the august government was formed and nations learned the island was a-weight with gold, the priesthood cast a spell of angry thought about the ministers of state, forbidding them to barter island wealth in quantities, preserving in their line a love of home and that which home contained all jealously.
Vast gardens set about the temple walls made private bower where dark-eyed children played and dark-eyed mothers smiled and time beguiled by touching cords of finest woven gold, or other metal.
If to an unwed maid a child was born, all undesired, and it died at her hand, four stalwart slaves stripped from her form the gems, the cloth of gold, mayhap, the fine-spun lace and from the shore in
read the creed of love and so forgot that wives have not the right to love, save him who giveth shelter, name and gold and state, as law of man proscribeth.
A barque whose sides bore gleaming gold with name inscribed and flowers carven, or yet a scene from nature drawn, of bird or graceful leopard.
Tusked creatures, too, shone forth in gold upon the well-spiked sides of galleys of the nobles of the state, as building of great barques progressed.
Flashing gems indeed were set about the crown of some fair sea-nymph, graved in gold or metal that doth linger ’neath the waves yet rusts not, nor is marred by beating waves nor play of monsters.
The captain of the fleet, ye call—a fleet which challenged sun-rays shot with gold, which cast its sheen for miles over quiet sea, or fought the waves as valiantly as tiger meets its foe—the captain of this royal fleet was Wanandred—captain of the hosts of sea.
Atlantis was athirst for gold which lay within her soil, and also for that ruddy metal which abounds in strongest nitrates from the saline trend of earth.
Of these she held rich store, and men toiled deep beneath the surface gold and dug such rare and perfect metal blocks as man hath seldom seen.
The presence of its neighbor, gold, cast a shade of color on the mass.
Where gold predominates a ruddy hue is seen; where "lead," the color ye call "peacock" shows, they spake.
To East the gold on sands did lie, the grains, they called, the ocean seemingly had washed upon the beach.
Ornaments were made, some beautiful, and all were prized, for instinct seemed to recognize the purity of gold which they taught God had made of sun-rays smiting rock that held the greatest sulphide matter.
Gold also was sometimes wrought in shape by pouring molten wax and tin of quality, refined into one cauldron, rolling forth the mass upon the sea sand and beating thin.
One of this race—a monarch—once did seek Atlantis’ shore to barter slaves for fruits, or gold, or jewels, and with him in his train of slaves he bore a sister—beautiful as dawn.
Not one grain of gold, one length of linen, silk one thread the more, nor lace one shuttle's length that was not theirs by right.
And in the center of one mighty dome in temple old, well builded, rose and always rose the sun in waves of rare sardonyx; sun of gold and other burnished metal casting out such sheen that Sun indeed it seemed.
Of time that held the arts, as thou today dost know, with added numbers wrought in gold.
A casket wrought of cypress bound with gold held once the ashes.
With the strength of gold, thus ancient vase was wove.
And thither sent Atlantis men of trust to barter what the smiths did beat from gold, or yet those pictures rare wrought in the metal fair ye name upon the scroll, and yet not so exact in every point of worth, for it still held another added part which saved the metal for the tooth of Time to gnaw and yet not crumble.
Gold doth fill the mind with fairest visions; in their midst the one who owneth gold is shrined."
soon thou’lt know the touch of gold no more!
Streets which cross and wind were but the fancy of the crafty one who held the keys which locked the nation's useless horde, for many years but useless—useless, as they sought no more their ancient home where gold in grains were held for merchandise.
No spy who seeketh word of Kling—our monarch, Kling, the great, or I, who bartered fame adown the centuries long for greed of gold, now worthless, lives to cast an eye to gods.
The man who learned to read each thought made no reply, but wheeled well in line with stars, to eye unaided all invisible, the trumpet-shapen instrument, whose base was metal of that ruddy hue † and gold en-beaten in one gleaming mass, with stones that studded here and there the base.
Gold in grains so large they are but painted pebbles, one might think; such precious stuff hath seldom lay within man's sight as we shall garner in that distant land.
"We go to wrest from tyrants gold and gems and fairest women.
Wizards on that isle who do create most beauteous things, and wealth so lavish that it piles the sands with gold.
The blue waves dimpled in the morning light and all Atlantis met in fête, nor thought that nearer, nearer drawing yet were barques by hundreds—hurrying wolves of war that hovered nigh and waited for the night, to set their feet on forest bordered spot and march on home and wrest its treasures all, in human life and gems and gold.
"A herald!" spake the king who sat at meat in splendor of his office—gold and gems and silken robe and crown that seemed as stars.
Incense burned on coals that glowed within a chalice woven from the gold which had wrapped the king's own infant cradle; coals from pungent wood that cast an odor on the atmosphere for many paces round.
To sands where grains of gold doth lie!
Slaves stood near to spring at leeches' bidding for the quickening draught or cooling mixture, for the bowl of gold that caught the flow from pierced arm.
and going take not state nor thing of earth, not life nor love nor gold to mark thee aught save but a wandering soul!
I thus explain the destruction of Atlantis—land of the beautiful, land of gold, of knowledge, of science, art, music; all that man beneath God perfecteth added to God's own work.
beautiful, the strong in war a prize, and greed and lust stood by agape and gold beladened.
And there the withered miser's trembling hand held close the casket where the gems were hid which he had destined for his monarch's eye, if so the monarch's Minister of State, but spake the word to weigh the grains of gold and barter for the jewels, water clear or green as spray in Springtime.
Wares of gold and silver, stuffs from Tyre and Gom were spread on what the merchant knew would best display the gleam of golden thread and floss made by that insect horror in its shape doth show to timid ones.
And they were supplied indeed with many things from foreign countries, on account of their extensive empire; but the island afforded them the greater part of everything of which they stood in need.[14] In the first place the island supplied them with such things as are dug out of mines in a solid state, and with such as are melted: and orichalcum, which is now but seldom mentioned, but then was much celebrated, was dug out of the earth in many parts of the island, and was considered as the most honourable of all metals except gold.
Embracing Texas and the Gulf of Mexico,[18] the Southern and Eastern States of America, up to and including Labrador, it stretched across the ocean to our own islands—Scotland and Ireland, and a small portion of the north of England forming one of its promontories—while its equatorial lands embraced Brazil and the whole stretch of ocean to the African Gold Coast.
These were sometimes carved in wood or in hard black stone like basalt, but among the wealthy it became the fashion to have their statues cast in one of the precious metals, aurichalcum, gold or silver.
The precious metals were largely used in the adornment of the temples, the interiors being often not merely inlaid but plated with gold.
Gold and silver were highly valued, but as we shall see later on when the subject of the currency is dealt with, the uses to which they were put were entirely artistic and had nothing to do with coinage, while the great quantities that were then produced by the chemists—or as we should now-a-days call them alchemists—may be said to have taken them out of the category of the precious metals.
Gold was admired even more than silver, and was consequently produced in much greater quantity.
Of rare earths and metals they built, and out of the fires vomited, out of the white stone of the mountains and of the black stone, they cut their own images in their size and likeness, and worshipped them." Shrines were placed in temples in which the statue of each man, wrought in gold or silver, or carved in stone or wood, was adored by himself.
For because of their headship they had a large supply of imports from abroad, and the island itself furnished most of the requirements of daily life,--metals, to begin with, both the hard kind and the fusible kind, which are extracted by mining, and also that kind which is now known only by name but was more than a name then, there being mines of it in many places of the island,--I mean orikhalkon (mountain-copper), which was the most precious of the metals then known, except gold.
In the center there stood a temple sacred to Kleito (Cleito) and Poseidon, which was reserved as holy ground, and encircled with a wall of gold; this being the very spot where at the beginning they had generated and brought to birth the family of the ten royal lines.
All the exterior of the temple they coated with silver, save only the pinnacles, and these they coated with gold.
As to the interior, they made the roof all of ivory in appearance, variegated with gold and silver and orichalc, and all the rest of the walls and pillars and floors they covered with orichalc.
And outside, round about the temple, there stood images in gold of all the princes, both themselves and their wives, as many as were descended from the ten kings, together with many other votive offerings both of the kings and of private persons not only from the State itself but also from all the foreign peoples over whom they ruled.
Consequently they thought scorn of everything save virtue and lightly esteemed their rich possessions, bearing with ease the burden, as it were, of the vast volume of their gold and other goods; and thus their wealth did not make them drunk with pride so that they lost control of themselves and went to ruin; rather, in their soberness of mind they clearly saw that all these good things are increased by general amity combined with virtue, whereas the eager pursuit and worship of these goods not only causes the goods themselves to diminish but makes virtue also to perish with them.
Among tha gårs-sêdum hedon wi navt alena kêren, ljaver ånd blyde, men âk swete thêr lik gold blikte ånd thåt mån vndera svnnastrêla bakja kvste.
Twê-lif skêpa lêt-i-to hrêda mith win hvning ånd tomâkad lêther, thêr bi wêron tåmar ånd sitlun mith gold wrtêin sa mån hja ninmer nêde sjan.
Mith allerlêja blomma wêron hja siarad, ånd tha linnen tohnekna thêra mångêrtne wêron omborad mith gold ut-er Rêne.
Navt mith pårlum, hwand hjra tuskar send witter; navt mith gold, hwand hjra hêr is blikkander; navt mith stêna, wel send hjra âgon saft as lamkes âgon, thach to lik sa glander thåt mån thêr skrômlik in sja ne mêi.
Thet sôn thåt thêr ain kêm, wrde mith wêter wr skêpfachta gâten vmbe gold to winnande.
Tha skilda thêr witking ånd thêra skolta bi tha nachtum wêron mith gold vmborad.
Thêrnêi skil jawehder sâ fül gold krêja as er bêra mêi.
Anda moder sand hi en buda gold, thach hju stirt-et in sê.
Hi lêrde thåt nimman in hjara wand machte frota vmbe gold her silver ner kestlika stêna, hwêr nid an klywath ånd ljavde fon fljuchth.
Ak was thêr al hjara gold togadur brocht.
Thâ Askar mênde that kans him tolâkte, gvng-er mith fjuwertich skêpum hin ånd nam Kêrenåk ånd thene vreste thêra Golum mith al sine gold.
Kirt åfter that Askar mith Frêthogunsta bostigjath was, wårth thêr to Stâveren êne scherke bvwad, inna thju scherke wrdon tjoda drochten lykanda byldon stålth mith gold trvch wrochtne klâthar.
In the fields we had not only barley, oats, and rye, but wheat which shone like gold, and which could be baked in the sun’s rays.
When they were well established, the Magyars sought our friendship, they praised our language and customs, our cattle and iron weapons, which they would willingly have exchanged for their gold and silver ornaments, and they always kept their people within their own boundaries, and that outwitted our watchfulness.
Twelve ships were then laden with wine, honey, tanned leather, and saddles and bridles mounted in gold, such as had never been seen before.
A good hundred years ago Denmark began to trade; they gave their iron weapons in exchange for gold ornaments, as well as for copper and iron-ore.
They were decked with all kinds of flowers, and the girls’ dresses were fringed with gold from the Rhine.
Not with pearls, for her teeth were more white; not with gold, for her tresses were more brilliant; not with precious stones, for her eyes, though soft as those of a lamb, were so lustrous that you could scarcely look into them.
Everywhere about the Rhine the people dug holes, and the sand that was got out was poured with water over fleeces to get the gold, but the girls did not wear golden crowns of it.
The shields of the sea-king and the admiral were bordered with gold.
When our country began to recover, there came troops of poor Saxon men and women to the neighbourhoods of Staveren and Alderga, to search for gold and other treasures in the swampy lands.
When we came to the Euphrates, Nearchus went ashore with the soldiers and a large body of people; but he soon returned, and said, The King requests you, for his sake, to go a voyage up the Red Sea; after that each shall receive as much gold as he can carry.
He sent a bag of gold to the mother, which she flung into the sea.
He taught that men should not seek in her bowels for gold, or silver, or precious stones, which occasion envy and destroy love.
In their churches there are all kinds of monstrous images, many of them of gold.
Among the various kinds of corn some is as yellow as gold.
All their gold was likewise collected there.
When Askar thought a favourable opportunity occurred, he vent with forty ships and took Kerenac and the chief of the Gauls, with all his gold.
In the church were placed monstrous images, bedecked with gold-woven dresses.
The Atlanteans were pioneers in metalworking, particularly in crafting bronze and gold tools, agriculture, and construction.