Role Of Gold And Its Significance In Mythology
Gold is not only a renowned metal; it has a long history in its folds
. Its journey over the past decades has been quite complicated. Its discovery was brought before the general public approximately five thousand years ago or probably more. Thus, it signifies that gold is rather a legendary metal. It did not consume a lot of time in terms of emerging as a power symbol. It changed many ideologies, happened to obliterate multiple cultures and, at the same time, grew popular amongst citizens as individual and national obsession.
There are many myths attached with gold since unknown times. Due to its high value, not too much people were able to touch it, or took it in obsession. Therefore, they started creating stories, and tales about its mythical, and magical powers. They thought that it has some divine powers that are only gifted to kings, and queens. They also believed that gold is a healing source, and those who have gold, live a longer life.
There are many famous stories about gold from which the story of King Midas holds a great popularity. King Midas fell this deep in the love of gold that he forgot his own son. He wanted to turn everything into gold, and unfortunately, he got magical powers that allowed him to do so. He touched his son who became of gold, after that, he realised the curse of gold and asked God for penance. God forgave him and took his powers away.
Among the stories and myths involving gold, most have Egyptian origin. The ancient Egyptians considered gold to be a metal that was inexhaustible and that possessed divine powers. In that time, gold was considered to have association with the brightness of sun. The ancient Egyptians called the sun "god Re", while the word "Re" represented a mountain of gold. In the old kingdom of Pharaoh, Pharaoh was known as "Golden Horus".
There are areas all across the globe that perceives gold as a destructive agent. They believe it to have an annihilating energy around it that grasps all the people, who are attracted towards it. Thus, it is like a trance, an eternal lust that overwhelms one to such an extent that he forgets the actual purposes of his life.
Gold also has an importance in the dawn of Muslim age. That was really a golden period of Muslims in the history, and today. During that time, Muslim scientists tried to find a chemical that can actually turn ordinary metal into gold. Though, they were unable to find, or make such chemical, they invented many acids and bases during that research. They name this science branch as "Alchemy", and the branch of science "Chemistry" is also originally derived from "Alchemy".
During the ancient times, gold was considered to be the most valuable thing and was used instead of currency for making transactions. The economists, in the present age, realised the importance of gold and its value and started relating to it as currency.
Inflation is caused when there is any excess in minting the currency. In addition, this is the cause behind the huge inflation rates of modern age. As gold is discovered from very few locations of the world, and in small quantity, it will maintain its worth forever. This sacred value of gold resulted in its use in ornaments, and jewellery.
by: Jack Wagon
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