gold washed fleeces.

The very early origin of the myth in preliterate times means that during the more than a millennium when it was to some degree part of the fabric of culture, its perceived significance likely passed through numerous developments. Readers whose own cultural background dismisses the mythic fleece as a fanciful object have made euhemeristic attempts to interpret the Golden Fleece "realistically" as reflecting some physical cultural object or alleged historical practice grounded in economics. For example, in the twentieth century, some scholars suggested that the story of the Golden Fleece signified the bringing of sheep husbandry to Greece from the east;[11] in other readings more schooled in mythology, scholars theorized it referred to golden grain,[12] or to the sun.[13] akthough the idea of sheep herding was entertained by some scholars you will find our interpretation of it representing a rite of passage equal to abrahams attempt to sacrifice his son, it was a fake sacrifice by the golden fleece also portrays the kingdoms allied through the symbol of it. it is a fruit of life hung on a tree of life and like the fruit of llife planted by zues, for a quick refrence also see the encyclopedea brittanica on hercules and the tree of life planted by zyes, also inkwaters plato's mythologising the myth of er. A more widespread interpretation relates the myth of the fleece to a method of washing gold from streams, which was well attested (but only from c. 5th century BC) in the region of Georgia to the east of the Black Sea. Sheep fleeces, sometimes stretched over a wood frame, would be submerged in the stream, and gold flecks borne down from upstream placer deposits would collect in them. The fleeces would be hung in trees to dry before the gold was shaken or combed out. Alternatively, the fleeces would be used on washing tables in alluvial mining of gold or on washing tables at deep gold mines.[14] Judging by the very early gold objects from a range of cultures, washing for gold is a very old human activity. inasmuch as fleeces can be used to wash gold from a river or table top and one could say it was from the ellespond as elle dunked there, this was not the focus of the story as nothing other than it being said to ve a golden stroud has anything with gathering gold. interesting but flying high on this method that produces only a little gold from a rich river does not fulfil the importance of this ralee till tommorow.