First of all it must be realized Ancient Egypt didn't live in a bubble, had significant trade routes, and gold was a universal currency at the time, alongside other metals. Egypt had its own gold mines in ancient times, so not only did they have their own "currency printers" (miners) they knew where the gold was coming from.
The spiritual aspect I suspect, comes from the Sun God, Ra. The shining Sun, like the shining gold. Cue the spiritual tokens and trinkets made of gold.
However what they lacked was the knowledge about the intrinsic of chemicals. Gold is a metal found in nature that doesn't need to be processed to return its shine? And it's rare too? It must be a blessing of the Sun. Coincidentally, all atoms were formed in stars, being the massive fusion reactors they are. Humanity is literal star dust! Ancient Egyptians had no idea though, so long as the knowledge wasn't passed on to them. Was it passed on to them? "Ancient Astronauts theory says yes!" I can hear in the background. (It must be noted that "leaded salt" was a common condiment at the time, revealing their ignorance of chemicals even more.)
Leucippus and Democritus in Ancient Greece (Ancient Greece which had significant mercantile and familial relationships with Ancient Egypt, Cleopatra wink wink, thus shared knowledge too) theorized "the atom", "the uncuttable", the smallest unit of matter at the base of everything we see that cannot be sensed directly by human senses, however those ideas didn't take root and the dark ages still happened across Europe, with Socrates' ideas for the nature of matter propagating instead (the four elements of Earth, Fire, Wind and Water, and the Ether).
So why does gold, the "skin of the Gods" matter? I think it's a riddle, just like everything Q does when he's being cryptic and/or wants plausible deniability. We know gold has been seized by the FED which forbid the hoarding of gold by private citizens. By hoarding all the gold themselves, Q might be hinting the FED appointed itself as God. False God. False idol. Self-idolizing, even. In fact Q also said clearly that gold would be the end of the FED. Will The People need to reclaim the Gold? Will The People even need to detach itself from the Gold, and rework its trading system to use decentralized currency? If gold becomes valueless from the lack of a market, the FED is done. The fact gold can still be exchanged on the market is what is giving it its value, as hoarding ALL the gold makes it valueless to the people outside the one hoarding it, since they can't access it.
Q also made several drops mentioning "Silence is golden". Having dipped my toes in infosec, one of the first tools I stumbled upon was Backtrack Linux (known today as Kali Linux, a Linux distribution specialized in "pentest" or Penetration testing, for the trade known as "aggressive security", or attacking a target information system from without to discern its weak points and remedy them), of which the slogan was "The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." In the era of fast information transmission and the propensity for lies to spread, Truth is power, and making noise isn't advisable to discern the true data and find the Truth. The Truth is gold, the Truth is valuable.
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First of all it must be realized Ancient Egypt didn't live in a bubble, had significant trade routes, and gold was a universal currency at the time, alongside other metals. Egypt had its own gold mines in ancient times, so not only did they have their own "currency printers" (miners) they knew where the gold was coming from.
The spiritual aspect I suspect, comes from the Sun God, Ra. The shining Sun, like the shining gold. Cue the spiritual tokens and trinkets made of gold.
However what they lacked was the knowledge about the intrinsic of chemicals. Gold is a metal found in nature that doesn't need to be processed to return its shine? And it's rare too? It must be a blessing of the Sun. Coincidentally, all atoms were formed in stars, being the massive fusion reactors they are. Humanity is literal star dust! Ancient Egyptians had no idea though, so long as the knowledge wasn't passed on to them. Was it passed on to them? "Ancient Astronauts theory says yes!" I can hear in the background. (It must be noted that "leaded salt" was a common condiment at the time, revealing their ignorance of chemicals even more.)
Leucippus and Democritus in Ancient Greece (Ancient Greece which had significant mercantile and familial relationships with Ancient Egypt, Cleopatra wink wink, thus shared knowledge too) theorized "the atom", "the uncuttable", the smallest unit of matter at the base of everything we see that cannot be sensed directly by human senses, however those ideas didn't take root and the dark ages still happened across Europe, with Socrates' ideas for the nature of matter propagating instead (the four elements of Earth, Fire, Wind and Water, and the Ether).
So why does gold, the "skin of the Gods" matter? I think it's a riddle, just like everything Q does when he's being cryptic and/or wants plausible deniability. We know gold has been seized by the FED which forbid the hoarding of gold by private citizens. By hoarding all the gold themselves, Q might be hinting the FED appointed itself as God. False God. False idol. Self-idolizing, even. In fact Q also said clearly that gold would be the end of the FED. Will The People need to reclaim the Gold? Will The People even need to detach itself from the Gold, and rework its trading system to use decentralized currency? If gold becomes valueless from the lack of a market, the FED is done. The fact gold can still be exchanged on the market is what is giving it its value, as hoarding ALL the gold makes it valueless to the people outside the one hoarding it, since they can't access it.
Q also made several drops mentioning "Silence is golden". Having dipped my toes in infosec, one of the first tools I stumbled upon was Backtrack Linux (known today as Kali Linux, a Linux distribution specialized in "pentest" or Penetration testing, for the trade known as "aggressive security", or attacking a target information system from without to discern its weak points and remedy them), of which the slogan was "The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." In the era of fast information transmission and the propensity for lies to spread, Truth is power, and making noise isn't advisable to discern the true data and find the Truth. The Truth is gold, the Truth is valuable.