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Fleece Navidad.
I heard an interesting interpretation of 'golden fleece'
Apparently, animal skins, especially sheep, were placed in rivers as a way of picking up gold flecks. In essence, it was a way of panning for gold without all the labor. Put the skin in, come back months later, and it would have a fair bit of gold on it.
FYI, some consider the golden fleece to be a very real thing. It was an ancient gold placer mining method to use a sheep's wooly fleece to act as the micro riffles in slucing, (in place of what modern placer miners use today, the so called "miner's moss"). This would result in the fleece being saturated with the fines, hence the source of the "myth" of the golden fleece.
It must have been pretty spectacular sight, (as it is any time you do a "clean up").
In fleeing she killed her own brother to keep her father from pursuing them further.
After having children with Medea, Jason grew tired of her. What a shock! She sounds like such a nice lady! He married another woman, spurring Medea to kill their children.
There are multiple myths about what happened to Medea after this. Jason lost his mind and died when the prow of his ship fell off and landed on him.
Or an early prospecting expedition which returned with evidence of their success in the form of gold-laden fleece.
Children-of-the-Hydra's-teeth Bump
Fascinating find. I've always said...next incarnation, I'm studying to be an archeologist! I've done my history tour,
so I figure I'm somewhat prepared to move on.
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Histories, book II: EuterpeThere can be no doubt that the Colchians are an Egyptian race... I made inquiries on the subject both in Colchis and in Egypt, and I found that the Colchians had a more distinct recollection of the Egyptians, than the Egyptians had of them. Still the Egyptians said that they believed the Colchians to be descended from the army of Sesostris. My own conjectures were founded, first, on the fact that they are black-skinned and have woolly hair, which certainly amounts to but little, since several other nations are so too; but further and more especially, on the circumstance that the Colchians, the Egyptians, and the Ethiopians, are the only nations who have practised circumcision from the earliest times... the Syrians who dwell about the rivers Thermodon and Parthenius, as well as their neighbours the Macronians, say that they have recently adopted it from the Colchians... I will add a further proof to the identity of the Egyptians and the Colchians. These two nations weave their linen in exactly the same way, and this is a way entirely unknown to the rest of the world; they also in their whole mode of life and in their language resemble one another. The Colchian linen is called by the Greeks Sardinian, while that which comes from Egypt is known as Egyptian.
by Herodotus
translation by George Rawlinson
transcription by Daniel C. Stevenson
The Golden Fleece is what Congress gives the taxpayers.
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I think it was the Scythians who had a unique method of recovering placer gold. Instead of panning, they would lay a sheep skin on the gravel bed of a stream. The gold would collect in the fleece – hence the “Golden Fleece”.
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