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🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Aug 20, 2003 04:15 AM UTC:
As I mentioned on this page, I borrowed the symbols for the Gold and Silver
Generals from alchemy, which used the sun symbol for gold and the moon
symbol for silver. Well, I learned today, or yesterday as I now write,
that this association wasn't limited to the Old World. While reading
Ignatius Donnelly's <I>Atlantis: The Antediluvian World</I>, I came
across this curious bit of information: 'The Peruvians called gold the
tears of the sun: it was sacred to the sun, as silver was to the
moon'(113).