Our Obsession With Gold - Was Our DNA Made That Way?

• Why are humans so obsessed with Gold?
• Is it linked with our origins as a species?
• And why are we so accepting of our Masters?

With the increasing expectations of an imminent catastrophic global financial crisis there are many economic advisors suggesting that property and shares should be sold and the proceeds invested in gold. Gold it seems has an almost magical property that ensures it retains its value when shares and property don't. Gold has always been seen as having great value, but why? What is the real value of gold? 

Gold is a relatively rare metal and has a number of qualities that seem to make it irresistible to humans - it has a shiny lustre, it does not tarnish, it has good electrical conductive properties, it can easily be combined with other metals to form alloys and it is very malleable allowing it to be formed into complex shapes, thin sheets or wires. But do these qualities alone make gold so precious? Are these the reasons we covet gold like no other metal or gem? Are these the reasons why gold is so common in ancient texts, stories and even fairy tales? King Midas, Rumplestiltskin, leprechauns, the Golden Fleece, etc are tales from our distant past, told and retold throughout Millenia. All because the metal has a lustre?

Australian Gold Rush

Nearly half of all the gold we mine today is used for jewellery. Rings, bracelets, necklaces and fancy brooches as well as gold ornaments is, and has always been, the main use for gold. Many cultures throughout the world revere the lustre of gold adorned on their bodies as a symbol of beauty, as a sign of wealth or as a charm for luck and happiness and gold or gold plated ornaments are treasured by temples, museums and individuals.

Almost half of our gold is used as an investment in the form of coins, bars and bullion or in Finance as currency or to support currency. That means that almost all of our gold that we have extracted from our planet is used either for financial purposes or as jewellery and ornamental reasons.

There is in fact only a very small percentage of gold that is useful in technology, medicine or anything else that benefits our species and yet we have coveted and revered gold since our earliest civilisations. 

Almost half of all the gold we mine is used in jewellry. 

Ancient records show that the Sumerians (Mesopotamia around 3500 BCE) was the first known civilisation to place a high value to gold and they invented techniques to refine it to a high standard. Textual evidence indicates that gold in Sumer was reserved for the rich and for religious reasons. It was gathered in royal treasuries, temples and used as jewellery for the elite. It was also used as funerary offerings (such as the graves at Ur). Other uses for gold by the Sumerians included vessels such as fluted bowls, goblets and as part of their sculptures.

 The Sumerians' craftsmanship with gold was astonishing. Museums in London, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Baghdad Museum in Iraq show gold cups, helmets, bracelets, garlands and chains of delicate workmanship that reveal an exceptional understanding of how to exploit gold's malleability, ductility and resilience. "Sumerian jewellery fulfilled practically all the functions which were to occur during the course of history," the jewellery historian Guido Gregorietti observed. "In fact, there were more different types of jewellery than there are today." 

The golden helmet of Ur.

The treasures reveal how well the Sumerian goldsmiths understood working with gold.  "Sumerian work is flavoured with amazing sophistication … delicacy of touch, fluency of line, a general elegance of conception," wrote jewellery expert Graham Hughes. "All suggest that the goldsmiths' craft emerged almost fully fledged in early Mesopotamia."

Historical evidence suggests that there were few, if any, gold deposits in Mesopotamia and most of their gold was obtained through trade for Sumerian agricultural produce, technology and other Sumerian goods. Why then, in an area that had no known gold deposits, was gold so precious to the Sumerians and their culture?

A growing number of researchers (including the late Zechariah Sitchin) propose that the Sumerians and their advanced technology, writings and mathematics were created by ancient alien visitors through gene manipulation. These Annunaki, as the alien visitors are known, altered the genes of the local primitive inhabitants to create human slaves to mine gold for them. This gold, it is theorised, was necessary to patch up a hole in their home planet's ozone layer. (A solution that our scientists agree would fix our own ozone layer holes.)

The manipulation of genes to create hybrid creatures is well within our own grasp in the 21st century. It is not a far fetched fantasy to imagine a higher evolved species manipulating the local inhabitants, whether it be from monkey or Neanderthal, to create a species they can use for their own ends. Humans have done similar in the past after all and they are likely to in the future. 

The giant Gilgamesh, the fifth king of the Sumerian city of Uruk, enslaved the men and sexually exploited the women.

If humans were created this way, it would help to explain many of the unanswered questions in the theory of evolution whilst at the same time putting ancient, biblical and religious texts into a more scientific perspective. Ancient engravings, statues and texts portraying giants as rulers of people would also make more sense if this were true as would ancient architectural feats such as the Pyramids of Giza,  the Giant walls of Sacsayhuaman, Puma Punku and  the ruins of Baalbek. Of course it also explains our obsession with gold since this time.

Was Gold Lust actually built into our DNA? 

Sumerian tablet highlighting the difference in size of the rulers compared to mere humans

Gold and the search for it has been the reason for the birth of many cities, states and areas and also accounts for population growth in the gold rush areas across the globe. The populations of The United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and Brazil all benefitted from significant gold rushes in the 19th century (despite the fact that few miners ever truly profited from their efforts). 

But perhaps the greatest changes in population caused by the lust for gold was our own creation. A race that has the tendency to destroy nature and the environment rather than coexist as part of it. A race that has little empathy for races or creatures that stand in the way of its unquenchable thirst for expansion and profit. A race that values gold much greater than its own planet!


Does this theory also explain humans propensity to accept having masters? Bosses at our workplace, presidents, Prime Ministers, politicians, kings and queens are all versions of masters ruling the majority of the human race. We not only accept them, we happily get involved in their selection (whenever we are allowed), participate in their rituals and we vigorously support the Master we think will rule us in the way that is "best for us". All while we are apparently oblivious to the fact that they rarely do what the people actually want. These masters, once chosen or appointed, are free to force their will onto their subjects, to send them to wars to expand the Masters empire, to tax the people to grow the Masters wealth and power, and generally control them regardless of the actual will of the people. Yet we still happily accept their rule over us as if we could not happily exist without masters. 

Our obsession with gold and the price we are willing to pay for it is seemingly inexplicable unless we consider the almost unbelievable:

Humans were created by an alien race for the prime purpose of gathering gold. 

Genetic Engineering is a common practice today.

Once we consider this a lot of unanswered questions seem to have answers.

Mesopotamia, and Sumer in particular, is considered by scholars to be "the cradle of civilisation". Perhaps this is a much more accurate label than we first thought. 

Does this theory also explain humans propensity to accept having masters? Bosses at our workplace, presidents, Prime Ministers, politicians, kings and queens are all versions of masters ruling the majority of the human race. We not only accept them, we happily get involved in their selection (whenever we are allowed), participate in their rituals and we vigorously support the Master we think will rule us in the way that is "best for us". All while we are apparently oblivious to the fact that they rarely do what the people actually want. These masters, once chosen or appointed, are free to force their will onto their subjects, to send them to wars to expand the Masters' empire, to tax them to grow the Masters' wealth and power, and generally control them regardless of the actual will of the people. Yet we still happily accept their rule over us as if we could not happily exist without masters. 

Addendum

In every cubic mile of ocean it is estimated that there is around 25 tons of gold. This would give us approximately 10 billion tons of gold in the oceans alone. Currently there is no economically feasible way to extract this gold but perhaps the Annunaki will return once they have figured out a way? When that happens will we rejoice that our original masters have returned to fulfil the prophecies?

Probably.