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Gold

Colors & materials · Elements

A metal that does not rust, and the color of that metal. Kingship, the sun, and the alchemical goal are separate later jobs.

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    object · 415

    European folklore

    • Pocket watch is historically related to Gold.

      Reid’s watch chapters seat the pocket watch among portable spring watches worn in a pocket, gold and gilt pair cases among the fine casework of that trade. A named pocket-watch in that craft, not a marine chronometer boxed for longitude and not a carriage clock.

      from Thomas Reid · Treatise on Clock and Watch Making, 1826

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    • Mitre is historically related to Gold.

      Planché’s Cyclopaedia seats the mitre among liturgical headdresses of later Christian bishops, often gold-embroidered and jeweled in costume speech. A named mitre in that costume speech, not a biretta, not a zucchetto, and not a bare crown dump.

      from James Robinson Planché · A Cyclopaedia of Costume, 1876–1879

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    • Livery collar is historically related to Gold.

      Planché’s Cyclopaedia seats the livery-collar among chains of office and allegiance links worn as collars of service, commonly gold in court and household costume speech. A named livery-collar in that costume speech, not a carcanet jewel dump alone, and not a bare necklace.

      from James Robinson Planché · A Cyclopaedia of Costume, 1876–1879

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    • Chatelaine is historically related to Gold.

      Planché’s Cyclopaedia seats the chatelaine among ornamental chains and clasps hung from the waist to carry keys, seals, and small tools of later dress, gold and gilt metal in costume speech. A named chatelaine in that costume speech, not a livery-collar, not a carcanet, and not a bare key-ring dump.

      from James Robinson Planché · A Cyclopaedia of Costume, 1876–1879

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    Vedic tradition

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    Alchemy

    • Gold is used in Alchemy.

      Alchemy’s famous goal is gold. The metal is the craft’s boast, not every culture’s sun.

      from Tabula Smaragdina (Emerald Tablet), medieval Latin tradition (Arabic antecedents)

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    Chinese tradition

    • Gold is used in Alchemy.

      Ware’s Nei P’ien instructs compounding Potable Gold with one pound of gold by the old scale: metallic gold is a working material in Ge Hong’s elixir craft. That is Ge Hong’s China, not the Emerald Tablet’s gold-as-goal.

      from Ge Hong; James R. Ware (translation) · The Nei P’ien of Ko Hung, 1966 (this translation); Ge Hong 4th century CE

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    Nahua tradition

    Norse tradition

    • Gold appears in Norse tradition.

      Snorri’s Gylfaginning seats gold among Draupnir’s dripping rings and the bright gear of that gods’ household. A named gold in that prose, not draupnir as the named ring already walked and not Baopuzi potable-gold alchemy alone.

      from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220

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    Roman religion

    • Gold appears in Roman religion.

      Virgil’s Aeneid seats gold among temple plate, gifts, and the golden bough’s metal speech. A named gold in that epic, not the golden-bough object restated as the material alone and not alchemy.

      from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

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    Egyptian religion

    • Gold appears in Egyptian religion.

      The Book of the Dead seats gold among the flesh and gear of gods and the justified’s hoped-for brilliance. A named gold in that corpus, not alchemy’s goal alone and not a market bullion dump.

      from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972

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    Buddhist traditions

    • Gold appears in Buddhist traditions.

      Watson’s Lotus Sūtra repeatedly names gold among the seven treasures adorning Buddha-lands, stupas, and offerings. A named gold in that Mahāyāna honor-speech, not alchemy cinnabar paths and not Nahua gold alone.

      from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older

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    Hellenic religion

    • Gold appears in Hellenic religion.

      Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 11 seats gold among Midas’s touch that turns food and daughter to metal before the Pactolus wash. A named gold metamorphosis-property in that poem, not a generic treasure dump and not golden-fleece as the prize already walked.

      from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE

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    Vedic tradition

    Islam

    • Gold appears in Islam.

      The Qur’an names gold among ornaments, hoarded wealth blamed, and garden vessels. Islamic gold speech in that revelation, not alchemy gold walks and not silver as the same wealth-row.

      from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

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    • Gold is opposed to Iron.

      Gold does not rust; iron does. Later metal-lore made that contrast a moral; the chemistry is older than the sermon.

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    • Gold is historically related to Glue.

      In Theophilus’s Divers Arts, liquefied glue is poured into the shell of gold and the gold is washed with it before laying thick or thin — gold is washed and laid with that glue.

      from Theophilus Presbyter · On Divers Arts, c. early 12th century

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    • German silver is historically related to Gold.

      In Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts, German silver and Gold are named as companions in the same handbook speech.

      from Arnold James Cooley · Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts, 6th ed. (PD; Gutenberg #39733 / #41957)

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    • Dutch metal is historically related to Gold.

      In Cutbush's A System of Pyrotechny, Dutch metal is placed beside Gold as concrete shop companions.

      from James Cutbush · A System of Pyrotechny, 1825 (Gutenberg #49028; PD in the USA)

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    • Green gold is historically related to Gold.

      In Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets, Green gold sits with Gold in finishing and precious-metal speech — named together on the working page.

      from Daniel Young · Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets, 1861 (Gutenberg #17569; PD in the USA)

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    • White gold is historically related to Gold.

      In Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts, White gold and Gold are named as companions in the same handbook speech.

      from Arnold James Cooley · Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts, 6th ed. (PD; Gutenberg #39733 / #41957)

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    Alchemy

    • Gold is connected to Silver.

      Sun-and-moon metal-speech in later alchemy pairs gold and silver. The pairing is a laboratory idiom.

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    • Fire is associated with Gold.

      Alchemical fire is the means by which, in the craft’s own claim, base stuff is worked toward gold. The claim is the tradition’s, not a chemical proof.

      from Tabula Smaragdina (Emerald Tablet), medieval Latin tradition (Arabic antecedents)

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    European folklore

    • Ormolu is historically related to Gold.

      Sheraton’s Dictionary seats ormolu among gilt brass mounts and ground-gold finishes of cabinet ornament speech. A named ormolu in that trade, not gilt-bronze as the cast bronze cousin alone, not japanning as the lacquer finish, and not shellac polish.

      from Thomas Sheraton · The Cabinet Dictionary, 1803

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    European folklore

    • Lustre Glaze is historically related to Gold.

      Piccolpasso’s potter’s art seats lustre among the metallic sheen enrichments of maiolica, including gold and copper lustre fired in a reducing muffle after the main glaze fire. A named lustre-glaze in that workshop speech, not ordinary overglaze enamel paint alone and not tin-glaze as the white ground.

      from Cipriano Piccolpasso · The Three Books of the Potter’s Art, c. 1557; English PD translations

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    • Amalgam Gilding is used in Gold.

      Ure’s Dictionary seats wash gilding as applying an amalgam of gold evenly to a copper alloy and dissipating the mercury with heat so as to leave a fixed gold film. A named amalgam-gilding in that mercury-gold coating speech, not electro-gilding alone, and not bare amalgam identity.

      from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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    Alchemy

    • Shell gold is used in Gold.

      Theophilus’s On Divers Arts Book I seats powdered gold bound for brushwork and kept in shells among manuscript and miniature golds. A named shell-gold use of gold, not gold-leaf sheets and not mosaic-gold tin sulfide pigment.

      from Theophilus Presbyter · On Divers Arts, c. early 12th century

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    European folklore

    • Parcel Gilt is historically related to Gold.

      Sheraton’s Dictionary seats parcel-gilt among partly gilded furniture and frame finishes of cabinet ornament speech in the gold neighborhood. A named parcel-gilt in that trade, not full ormolu mounts alone and not japanning.

      from Thomas Sheraton · The Cabinet Dictionary, 1803

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    • Gold Ruby Glass is historically related to Gold.

      Neri’s transparent-red chapters seat gold-ruby among fine cristallo coloured by repeatedly calcined gold powder sprinkled into the melt until a rubie red appears. A named gold-ruby-glass in that colour speech, not cranberry as later Victorian pink table glass and not purple-of-cassius as the post-Neri gold-tin precipitate name alone.

      from Antonio Neri · The Art of Glass, 1612; English PD translations

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    • Gold is associated with Circle.

      Coins and solar disks are round and often yellow. The likeness is cheap; keep it interpretive.

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    • Orb is historically related to Gold.

      Mollett’s Dictionary seats the orb (globus cruciger) among royal regalia of gold and related metals. Orb historically related to gold as regalia metal, not a free sphere alone and not a bare cross dump.

      from J. W. Mollett · Illustrated Dictionary of Words Used in Art and Archaeology, 1883

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    Alchemy

    • Gold mark represents Gold.

      Ruland’s Lexicon seats AURUM as Gold, called Sol by chemists and dedicated to the Sun. A named gold-mark in that Sol/planetary-metal sign speech, not silver-mark Luna, and not sun as the sky body alone without the metal sign.

      from Martin Ruland the Elder · Lexicon Alchemiae, 1612

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    • Gold is used in Medicine.

      Pliny’s Natural History Book 33 chapter 25 lists eight remedies derived from gold: applied to the wounded and to infants against sorcery, and used in compounded ash preparations for facial lichens and related afflictions. A Roman-era pharmacological use of the metal, not Ge Hong’s elixir ranking and not alchemical gold-as-goal.

      from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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    Nahua tradition

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    Alchemy

    • Sun is associated with Gold.

      Latin alchemy often marks gold with the sun. The metal and the star are made to stand for each other in a laboratory idiom, not in every gold-using culture.

      from Tabula Smaragdina (Emerald Tablet), medieval Latin tradition (Arabic antecedents)

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    European folklore

    • Luck is associated with Gold.

      Folk speech treats gold as a lucky find. The metal’s price and the luck-charm are different jobs.

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    plant · 1

    • Gold is historically related to Saffron.

      In Theophilus’s Divers Arts, when gold is wanting, tin leaf is coloured with a saffron liquor (wine or beer) to imitate gold ornament in books — saffron stands in for that gold colour.

      from Theophilus Presbyter · On Divers Arts, c. early 12th century

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    Two stored meetings of this pair

    These are separate published relations. They are not one meaning.

    Alchemy

    • Gold is used in Alchemy.

      Alchemy’s famous goal is gold. The metal is the craft’s boast, not every culture’s sun.

      from Tabula Smaragdina (Emerald Tablet), medieval Latin tradition (Arabic antecedents)

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    Chinese tradition

    • Gold is used in Alchemy.

      Ware’s Nei P’ien instructs compounding Potable Gold with one pound of gold by the old scale: metallic gold is a working material in Ge Hong’s elixir craft. That is Ge Hong’s China, not the Emerald Tablet’s gold-as-goal.

      from Ge Hong; James R. Ware (translation) · The Nei P’ien of Ko Hung, 1966 (this translation); Ge Hong 4th century CE

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