[Jewelry making - Article 00601] - Re: [Orchid] Platinum enhanced sterling?

[R . E . Rourke]

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>     As I mentioned before electrum has etymological roots indicating
>     Greek origin. 

    linguistics are the key here.The earliest translations were from
    Assyrian,Sumerian,etc. into Greek like early christian texts.At
    about the 14th century a.c.e. is when the words blur mostly with the
    introduction of Latin translations of the earlier Greek translations
    of ancient,already out of use,or dead dialects and languages. In
    older texts,for example, the Vedas.predate both civilizations if you
    ascribe to the belief that ancient Vedic culture existed since the
    beginning of time.In them, the atharva-veda speaks of
    agni-lat-ur..and is transliterated as meaning fire bound
    mixture...that is probably the source of the many variations of the
    word electrum,dating to 5780-95 b.c.e.according to Vedic time
    and.meaning-- an alloy.Predating the Gupta kings and dynastic India,
    post Aryan and Indus valley civilizations mixing, gold and silver
    were known and widely used in ayur-veda (health and practical life
    applications) and,atharva-veda ( magical and alchemical-like texts of
    a system based on natural elements and their powers and subtleties)
    and other schools.that taught the science of life and that from the
    beginnings of trade between cultures, pre-silk road, words have
    drifted in and out of their original speaking groups and into all
    tha,first - came in contact with x, group and secondly that adopted
    and in some cases adapted the words into a lexicon more in keeping
    with their own dialectic pronunciations such as familiar consonance
    and assonance applied to spelling..so in looking at a word like
    electrum- clearly a latinized version of any group of words cross
    culturallly, we can perhaps trace it back to the oldest known
    language sanskrit..from which agnilatur..with a little imagination,
    sounds like the root of electrum based on the assonance and
    consonance solely, when you add in the meaning of the word- a
    firebound mixture- it makes perfect sense. In India the oldest known
    alloy is 80% gold to 20% silver and is ascribed to the deity Brahma(
    as in Bhrama's preferences or perscription for puja) from whom the
    world is said to have emerged from his navel..Dhanvantari, the
    universe's original physician from whom the ayur-veda is said to have
    come,alloyed 50% gold with 50% silver and is the agni-lat-ur of
    medicine, metal for containment of foods previously offered to
    deities( prasadat),and metal for making adornment acceptable to the
    entire Hindu pantheon...one alloy good for everything and all forms
    of humankind..or so say the Vedas..So linguistics it seems are the
    root of the entire formulation of the alloy and the origin of the
    variants as well from an historical perspective...

R.E.Rourke
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