02/04/2023
THE TRAVAILS AND THE TRIUMPHS OF THE MANIFEST DESTINY OF A ‘GOLDEN BOY’
By Chris AbasiEyo
Scientifically, Gold is both a precious metal and a colour. From historical point of view, gold is used as a calendric periodisation, a time block or a season to determine the most valuable moment in a person’s, a people’s or humanity’s evolution. As the galaxy waxed into stardom, begetting stars Orion, Sirius, many other solar indicators and celestial bodies through aeons of transmogrification, occasioned by several cosmological occurrences, time tabulation amidst spatiotemporal indices, became necessary with the golden time (age) becoming the crescendo from the nadir.
GOLD AS A METAL: Gold, as a chemical element or metal, is not deposited in topsoil and neither is it found in the dust. Rather, it is buried deep in the belly of the earth. Gold as mineral, is formed from hot rocks amidst volcanic movements and earthquakes. It is widely believed among archeologists, geologists and other scientists in related fields, that the Gold in use today, were formed in their natural states, over the past 100,000 years and more.
They go on to postulate that, this precious yellow metallic element, which is the most malleable and ductile of all metals, is not subject to oxidation or corrosion. Equally from these experts, there are two major theories surrounding the formation of gold in its natural states. All these are linked to certain actions and reactions in the starry world. While one theory links the origin of Gold to the explosions of supernova stars and the resultant nuclear fusion amidst the productions of atoms of gold, the other hypothecates that gold is created as a result of collision of neutron and asteroidal stars which in turn, leads to a gamma-ray burst.
From this stage, gold flakes and nuggets worn away from veins overtime, get weathered, and owing to the force of gravity, are subsequently swept into bodies of water. Thenceforth, heavy lode gold deposits, begin to settle in streams, lakes and riverbeds, and on the sea floor, forming placer deposits. From here, superheated waters issue forth from spring-like vents in the seabed, from where metal-rich minerals, including small amounts of gold, are deposited as the heated gold-laden water mixes with the cold seawater. In this manner, are gold-laden waters heated by magma-molten rock-in Earth's shallow crust, form variety of lode gold deposits mined today by man.
GOLD AS A COLOUR AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE: Astrologically, and prior to Newton's discovery, there lived an Aristotle, a philosopher of historical antiquity, a taught of the great Plato, who himself, became a great teacher who taught the great Alexander of Hellas. He Aristotle, was the first in recorded history, to have expounded scholarly and esoterically on colours and their cosmic significance. He theorised that colours were sent by God through the light rays to beautify man as he believed that all colours were connected to the four Aristotelian elements in creation; water, air, earth and fire and therefore variants of white and black (lightness and darkness). Zodiacally, Gold in this case, represents royalty, success, wealth, achievement, triumph, etc.
As a colour, GOLD, also called golden, is so named, owing to its resemblance to the gold in its chemical element state. In colour production, brown, yellow and orange are mixed to produce gold as a colour. Gold, was first introduced to man as a colour and named so in English, in 1300 AD.
Primarily, colours are adopted for identification, inspiration, attraction, etc. When in use, a colour symbolically epitomises what it represents in volumes, as in character, nature, beliefs, focus and so on. Colours are therefore, adopted to surmise the details of the distinctive qualities of what they represent. For example, the colour - white, is used in most cases to represent transparency, purity, harmlessness, innocence, virginity, among others. This has been the rationale behind the use of colours by States and Organisations to represent what they stand for through their ensigns.
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