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The golden dream, the dream of mankind, the dream of the world.

The earliest weaving of golden dreams were the ancient Egyptians on the banks of the Nile, the "two river people" of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and some experts said that they were the ancient Indians who lived in the Amazon River for generations, and the symbol of the Inca civilization was the sun tears in the dream. But one thing seems to be common: the first golden dream, in which it was not gold, but the sun, was the light of the sun; more precisely, the earliest golden dream of mankind was the tears of the sun.

Gold goes from dreaming to reality. Its earliest appearance is the totem of human belief and power. It hangs high like the sun at the entrance of the tribe and above the altar of sacrifice, and may not see the sun, but it can see gold all the time, is that really the tears of the sun?

Gold was respectfully invited to the altar by humans on their knees and with both hands. Since then, for thousands of years, the worship of gold has increased day by day.

The Pyramid of Kukulcan in Mexico is the altar where the Maya worshipped the sun god. The nine-story circular altar is twenty-nine meters high and fifty-five meters wide around it, and the highest floor is a six-meter-high square altar temple, and there are ninety-one steps around the altar, all of which plus the top floor is exactly three hundred and sixty-five days a year for the Maya. The magic of this pyramid lies in the north-facing stone steps, each of which is carefully carved with a feathered snake, the body of the snake is hidden in the stairs, and the snake is quiet, as if waiting for something. Every year on the days of the spring and autumn equinoxes, on that day, when the sun shines directly on the pyramid, the steps of the pyramid will form a wave of waves, like a giant snake swimming in the waves, this illusion will last for three hours and twenty-two minutes, not bad by minutes. What is even more amazing is that at this time, in the square altar temple on the highest floor of the pyramid, the huge feathered snake god enshrined in gold will shine and illuminate the entire altar, and the ancient Mayans will gather together, singing and dancing to celebrate the arrival of the feathered snake god.

Is gold really the tears of the sun? Are the tears of the sun joy or sorrow? Why does the sun also shed tears? Everywhere there are people, there are gods, no matter what god is inseparable from the sun, gold represents the sun, and human beings will religiously offer gold to god, to the sun.

It is the sun that guides human beings to discover gold, and it is the sun that makes human beings weave golden dreams.

The earliest and greatest surviving gold work of art in the world is the golden mask of Agamemnon, the pure gold mask that was once worn on the face of the mycenaean king Agamemnon, the overlord of ancient Greece, 3,500 years ago, now in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, on the twenty-six centimeters long gold mask, even the roots of the beard, eyebrows, and sparse hair on Agamemnon's face are clearly reproduced; the two ears of the fan wind, even the lines on the earlobes, ear holes, and earlobes can be distinguished; the closed eyes are even eyelids, eye bags, The slightest wrinkle at the corner of the eye is clearly visible. The golden mask is amazingly well done! It turned out that this was Agamemnon, who commanded the three armies in the Trojan War. Agamemnon worshipped the sun all his life, pursued the tears of the sun, and entered the Bronze Age in the world, and the ancient Greek kingdom of Mycenae had mastered the technology of gold forging to the point of almost pure fire. Agamemnon was after gold, golden gold, not green sparkling bronze. How much gold did he store? According to research, the gold collections in all the museums around the world combined are far less than one-fifth of his. Agamemnon wanted to turn himself into a golden sun that never set.

In the Egyptian National Museum, Tutankhamun's golden coffin contains a golden mask of Tutankhamun, which is not only a mask, but also a golden art model with a head directly connected to the chest. It is fifty-four centimeters long, forty centimeters wide, weighs more than ten kilograms, and is inlaid with all kinds of gemstones, jade, pearls, and glass, mainly sapphires, and gold gemstones, making Tutankhamun young but elegant, quiet but full of mourning, calm and powerful. In the middle of the forehead is a vulture and a cobra, representing the patron saints of Upper and Lower Egypt ruled by the pharaohs, and a long beard at the chin, symbolizing osiris, the god of the ancient Egyptian hades. Unfortunately, the god of gold also failed to bless Tutankhamun, became king at the age of nine, and interrupted the dream of life at the age of eighteen in the "golden dream".

The earliest discovery of gold by mankind was very accidental, when the Cro-Roman peasants living in Europe, it is said that they found stones shining with sunlight in the river water, saw the golden gravel in the mountain rock grit, the original human first discovered metal is gold, the first dream of human beings is the golden dream. (i)

【Source: Ta Kung Pao】

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