Lord Byron claimed: The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, and his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold.... Purple and gold were considered to be royal colors in past ages. Our textbooks tell us that was because gold and purple dye were always expensive, but there is a better explanation than that. Classical authors like Ovid and Plato tell us there was a "golden age" prior to the flood when Kronos (Saturn) was the "king of heaven"; in that language, our sun is the "king of heaven" now... The oldest oral traditions of a numbere of...