No language is so copious as to supply words and phrases for every complex idea or so correct as not to include many equivocally denoting different ideas.
Gold has many values to people.
Its beauty has made it a popular material for ornamentation. In ancient Peru, gold was thought to symbolize the sun god and was used in producing religious and ceremonial art objects. The Spanish invaders of Peru melted down many of these objects for the value of the gold. Stones, coins, and other articles inscribed in an ancient Teutonic alphabet, whose letters are called runes, have been found in England and in other parts of northern Europe. The writing in rune characters was believed to be the invention of a pagan Nordic god.