Read about Gold and then the Golden egg to the Golden Egg which broke the internet! The last line is just a saying! Internet is not broken!
You have a Golden heart! The Jewels are Gold and silence is Golden! Gold is the first medal and Gold is the top!
Gold is gold not only because it does not react with anyone or anything but also because it is supposedly very OLD!
The gold chain you are wearing right now is may be as old as the universe and will remain long after you have gone, may be till the end of time!
Did you know that Gold is even linked to the creation of life!? Also it is the root behind the terminology of ACID TEST!
Now Gold is thought to have been produced in supernova nucleosynthesis, and from the collision of neutron stars and to have been present in the dust from which the Solar System formed!
Because the Earth was molten when it was formed, almost all of the gold present in the early Earth probably sank into the planetary core!
The symbol Au is from the Latin: aurum, the Latin word for “gold”. The ancestor of aurum meant “glow”.
This word is derived from the same root as the ancestor of the Latin word Aurora, “dawn”.
This etymological relationship is presumably behind the frequent claim that aurum meant “shining dawn”!
Gold is insoluble in nitric acid, which dissolves silver and base metals, a property long used to refine gold and giving rise to the term ACID TEST! So you can pass the test only if you are pure GOLD!
The Hiranyagarbha Sukta in the Rig Veda, the Vayu Purana, Bhagavata Purana and Brahmanda Purana mention the golden womb, the Hiranyagarbha or Brahmanda, the Cosmic Egg – that is sometimes interpreted as the golden foetus or embryo – that, floating in a dark void, contracted and gave birth to the universe and all that’s part of it – containing both male and female principles in union!
Another Purana called the Matsya-purana, after the great dissolution of the universe, the SWAYAMBHU (the self manifested being), arose. It created the primordial waters first and placed the seed of creation into it, which turned into a golden womb, the Hiranyagarbha! The Golden Egg or Hiranyagarbha floated around in the ocean of non-existence till it broke into two and that is how Life began!
This complex theme of the Golden egg was re-imagined by a painter with more golden marvels!
Around the year 1740, a painter from the hills of Guler (Himachal Pradesh) created a painting featuring an “egg”. Today, this hologram-like artwork is heralded as one of the masterpieces of Indian art.
In January 2019, an egg broke the internet to become the “most-liked” picture on Instagram!
So what is so impressive about this painting?
Well the answer lies in the way Manaku executed this artwork.
So In April 2018, The Heritage Lab worked with the acclaimed scholar, Prof. B.N Goswamy on his book ‘Readings in Indian Art’ revealed a unique feature of this painting!
When laid flat, the egg in the painting appears brown; once it is held in hand to be viewed, it gleams golden!
Doesn’t it sound a lot like one of those holograms you might have played with as kids? The only difference is that this 3-d effect was created more than 200 years ago – by hand! Is that not mind blowing!?
Manaku created the perfect balance between the swirls of the ocean in the background (movement) and the stillness of the perfectly oval Golden Egg in the foreground!
Golden are also those old movies like Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne! It’s bengali! But amazing is that one of the assistant directors of that was
Virender Raj Anand! You may know him as Tinnu Anand!
Now hope you also know that not only silence but sleep is also golden!
Shubh ratri!
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