It has a double solar meaning: as an object of golden color and as the skin of a golden ram, on which Zeus ascended to the heavens. Lamb also signifies innocence, and gold is the highest treasure, and as a result, the quest for the Golden Fleece is a search for spiritual insight, the highest authenticity, the acquisition of immortality and an attempt to achieve something that seems unattainable. To obtain it, one must overcome the dark sides of one's nature, symbolized by the dragon and Medea, which requires heroic and mystical conquest. The fleece is located on a tree symbolizing the Tree of Life and is guarded by a dragon in the aspect of a treasure guard.

Golden Fleece, see FLEECE.

One of the symbols denoting the conquest of the impossible or super-reasonable. Curl (32)

Since the sheep is a symbol of innocence, and gold represents the highest spirituality and glory, the Argonauts' quest for the Golden Fleece meant a search for the highest strength of spirit through the purity of the soul - a quality that distinguished Sir Galahad, the Knight of the Holy Grail. Therefore, it plays an important role in the overall symbolism of the treasure (Kerl (15).

Afamant (Atamant), Greek. - ruler of Orkhomenes in Bestia, son of King Aeolus, grandson of Hellin, lover of the cloud goddess Nespela, father of Phrixus and Gella. When Athamas subsequently married Ino, the young wife hated Nephele’s children and decided to destroy them. With the help of witchcraft, she caused a drought, and when the people began to grumble, she announced that because of Nephele’s children, the gods did not want to send the Boeotians a harvest. Loving mother Nephele saved the children, she wrapped them in a cloud, put them on a golden-fleeced ram and took them overseas. Along the way, Hella fell into the sea, and Frixus reached Colchis, killed a ram and hung the golden fleece in a sacred grove on a tree guarded by a dragon.

But snakes often became symbols of protecting secrets and mysteries. This means that they symbolized not only rising energy, but also a demonic monster spewing poison. In Greek mythology, serpentine demons guard various objects - symbols of knowledge and cosmic revelations. These are the golden apples of the Hesperides, which Hercules stole, and the golden fleece, which the Argonauts encroached on. As guardian of the sanctuary of Olympia, Zeus Sosipolis appears in the form of a snake to prevent the collapse of the arcades. Kerberus's dog, which guards the entrance to hell, has a snake tail. Thus, the fiery snake combines both the demonic and the enlightening; it is logical to interpret it as a symbol of nougat through the labyrinth that the hero must go through in order to achieve higher knowledge. The heroes of the Greek epic - Theseus, Perseus, Hercules, the Argonauts - had to put an end to both external enemies and the internal contradictions that tormented them before reaching a higher level of consciousness.

Argonauts - this was the name of the sailors who set off on the ship Argo, according to ancient Greek legends, on their first sea voyage to distant foreign lands. Pindar was the first to sing about their campaign, then Appolonius of Rhodes; his epic is well preserved. It says that the son of Aeson, Jason, on the orders of Peleus’s uncle, who reigned in Thessaly, in Iolko, went to get the golden fleece of the ram that took away Phrixus and Hella. The fleece was in the grove of Ares under the guard of the ever-waking dragon. The son of Phrixus, Argos, on the advice of the Athenians, built a ship - Argo and all the heroes of that time took part in the campaign. After several adventures, they finally arrived in Colchis, which lies at the mouth of the river. Phasisa. King Etes promised Jason to return the fleece on the condition that Jason would harness two bulls with copper legs, breathing fire, to a plow and pull out the dragon teeth left by Cadmus in Thebes and received by Etes from Athena. Jason accomplished this with the help of Etes's daughter, Medea, who fell in love with him. She gave him a magical remedy against fire and iron and advised him to crush his teeth with a blow of a stone. Jason did everything exactly, but Etes refused to give up the fleece and planned to kill the Argonauts. Then Jason and Medea went to the grove and, having taken possession of the fleece after she put the dragon to sleep, they fled on a ship. Apollonius says that in the Adriatic Sea they encountered the Colchians, who were pursuing them with Medea's brother, Apsyrtus. Medea betrayed her brother and the Argonauts won. According to other legends, Etes could not pursue the Argonauts, because Medea, who had taken her brother with her, killed him and threw him into the sea in pieces, while his father began to collect them. The return is told in different ways. According to more ancient legends, A. returned along the same road, through Phasis to the Ocean, from there to Libya, where they carried Argo in their arms to the Mediterranean Sea, along which they reached Iolko. Later legends convey the return of the Argonauts with many adventures. Of the surviving works of art, the so-called. Fikoron Cysta is an engraved image of the captivity of the Bebrik king, Amik, who was defeated during the campaign in Colchis, in a fist fight, by Polydeic.

Argonauts taking home the Golden Fleece. Fortune favors the brave. a symbol that God's Grace, coupled with our own efforts, will help us overcome the greatest difficulties on the way to achieving our goals. .

Atreus, Greek - son of Pelops (Pelops), brother of Thyestes, husband of Aerope. Atreus once promised to sacrifice the best sheep from his flock to Artemis. But the golden lamb turned out to be the best and Atreus regretted giving it as a sacrifice. He himself killed the lamb, and hid its golden fleece in a casket. Atreus's wife Aeropa, who had been secretly dishonored by Atreus's brother Thyestes, knew where this casket was located and took it to her husband's brother. When the time came to choose the king of Mycenae, Thyestes declared that the one with the golden lamb would receive power. Atreus, not knowing about the loss, agreed, but imagine his amazement when Thyestes showed the townspeople the golden fleece of the lamb. So Thyestes reigned in Mycenae. The gods, however, were unhappy with this outcome of events. Zeus sent Hermes to Atreus with a plan to regain power. Atreus will make a bet with Thyestes that if the Sun (Helios) begins its journey from West to East, then Thyestes will give him power. Unsuspecting Thyestes agreed, and Zeus forced his son Helios to get up one morning in the West, and not in the East, as always. So Atreus took the royal throne in Mycenae, and Thyestes was expelled. Having learned about his wife’s betrayal, Atreus ordered her to be thrown into the sea, and Thyestos swore revenge. He called him to the palace to offer him peace and friendship, but when Thyestes arrived, he learned that his three children had been killed. For the rest of his life, Thyestes dreamed of revenge. He had a son, Aegisthus, and Atreus married Aegisthus’ mother. When Aegisthus grew up and found out who his real father was, he killed Atreus and returned the kingdom to Thyestes. Thus Thyestes was avenged.

The male sheep is one of the oldest symbolic signs (Aries is the first sign of the Zodiac) and one of the most common emblems throughout the world (in variants: lamb, golden fleece, ram's head, ram's horns), meaning [POHL]

In Christian iconography, Christ is sometimes depicted as a sacrificial lamb. The more common image of Christ with a lamb in his arms symbolizes protection. As a protector of the flock, the ram was an attribute of the ancient Greek god Hermes (in Roman mythology, Mercury). After the wonderful ram, which belonged to Hermes and was sacrificed to Zeus, a golden fleece remained. Among the Jews, the sacred ram's horn, the shofar, is an emblem of protection.

• The ram is still considered this way among Muslims. - Approx. lane

Greek star legends describe the ram as an animal that once wore the "golden fleece"; he carried the royal children - Frik and Gella across the sea to Colchis. As a reward, the ram was placed among the stars, but he left his golden fur in Colchis, which is why the constellation glows so faintly in the sky.

In Greek myth, the dragon guarded the golden apples of the Hesperides and the Golden Fleece.

The brother and sister did not live with their mother, but in the palace of Athamas. When Athamas married Ino, she hated Nephele’s children and decided to get rid of them. Thus, she informed her gullible fellow citizens that children were the cause of drought and crop failure in the country, and the oracle ordered them to be sacrificed to Zeus. As soon as Nephele found out about the danger threatening the children, she put them on a magic ram with a golden fleece, wrapped them in a cloud, and they flew to other countries. But Hella could not resist and fell into the sea, and Frixus escaped in Colchis and presented the golden fleece to the king of the Colchians, Eetus. In memory of Helle, the waters into which she fell were called the Hellespont (now the Dardanelles).

When the Argonauts arrived in Colchis, Medea fell in love with Jason and, having put the dragon to sleep, helped him take possession of the Golden Fleece. She killed her brother, who was pursuing the Argonauts, and threw his corpse into the sea. Medea took cruel revenge on Pelias, to whom Jason gave the Golden Fleece and who did not fulfill his promise; she told his daughters that their father could be rejuvenated. To convince il,” she took an old ram, chopped it up and boiled it in a cauldron, and then turned it into a lamb. Shocked by what they saw, the daughters killed their father and cut the body into pieces, but Medea did not resurrect Pelias.

Speaking of topaz, one cannot help but recall the Diamond Fund of the aging Spanish Order, founded in 1429 under the name “Golden Fleece,” located in the Diamond Fund. The badge of the order is made of gold in the form of a small curly lamb skin suspended from a flint with tongues of flame. The upper part of the order consists of five large Brazilian topazes.

Fleece. The warrior kneeling before the fleece spread on the ground is GIDEON'S WOOL; a fleece hanging from a tree, guarded by a dragon - JASON. The Order of the Golden Fleece, founded in 1429 by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, was an order of chivalry whose purpose was to protect the Church. The emblem depicts a sheep's fleece hanging on a ring, its head and legs dangling. It is sometimes depicted in portraits of the Dukes of Burgundy and Emperor Maximilian. See also Flint and steel.

Represents fat as the vitality factor of the sheep and therefore all life-sustaining products such as cattle, grain, etc., as well as offspring and longevity.

Golden fleece suspended on a chain. //This is the reward for which it is worth setting off on a journey. the symbol shows that the magnitude of the reward should serve as an incentive for perseverance and aspirations. But how much more perseverance, perseverance and courage must be directed towards heavenly goals, towards the greatest reward.

Jasop and the Argonauts became in Europe the prototypes of heroes setting out in search of the truth hidden behind the appearance of things. The search for the Golden Fleece is interpreted as the search for gold and the philosopher's stone of the alchemists. The Golden Fleece, which Jason was chasing, is considered a uniquely masculine symbol, for Neumann - even a destructive force of the masculine principle, which corresponds to the negative masculine principle of death, from the point of view of matriarchy. Therefore, Aphrodite gave Psyche the task of plucking the wool of a golden ram in order to die in the destructive heat of the midday sun - a symbol of male energy. The emphatically masculine components in the myth of the Argonauts are indicated by the homoerotic connections between the heroes and the attitude of Hercules towards his squire Hylas. The maenads tore Orpheus apart precisely because of his homosexual inclinations. And many other hints of the same kind.

Bosch's VII Ars Simbolica depicts a dragon near the Hesperides tree. With regard to the symbolism of levels, a vertical scale of analogies can be established; dragons and snakes (primary forces)" are associated with crowns; lion, unicorn, deer and other animals expressing the ideas of rise, aggression and penetration correspond to the trunk; birds and celestial bodies are associated with foliage. The color correspondences are as follows: roots - black; trunk - white; foliage - red. The snake coiled around the tree serves as an introduction to another symbol - the spiral. The tree as the axis of the world is surrounded by successive circles characterizing the manifest world. This interpretation also applies to the snake guarding the base of the tree on which the Golden Fleece is hung (25).

Two fire-breathing bulls guarding the Golden Fleece - JASON.

Jason (Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica; Met., 7:1ff; Philostratus the Younger, Pictures, 7:11). Of all the Greek heroes, Jason is perhaps best known to English-speaking readers from the works of Kingsley and Hawthorne, although he is not widely represented in art. It was he who led the Argonauts on a campaign to capture the Golden Fleece from Aeetes, king of Colchis - a country near the Black Sea. The king's daughter Medea fell in love with Jason and, with her art of sorcery, helped him overcome various mortal dangers and take possession of Rune. She fled with Jason, fleeing her father's wrath, and returned with him to Greece. This story appears in the paintings of Italian Renaissance coffered panels, but it is comparatively rare that we find it in later art. (The cassone, the bride's dowry chest, was often decorated with scenes from classical mythology. Today such panels are often hung as paintings.) The following episodes are depicted: Jason, preparing to travel from his hometown of Iolcus, leaves King Pelias, his uncle. The ship "Argo" passes between dangerous rocks. The Argonauts, who landed in Colchis, are received by Eetus. Jason meets Medea. Jason takes possession of the Golden Fleece, hanging on a tree branch, near which lies a dragon, curled into a ring. Two fire-breathing bulls beat their hoofs in clouds of smoke. Jason with a sword and shield, dressed in military armor, stands in front of a tree, his companions next to or behind him.

Aries o The name of the constellation goes back to the Greek myth, in which a ram with curved horns carried away the royal children Phrixus and Gella from their stepmother Ino, who planned to destroy them. Hella fell into the sea (the famous Hellespont). Having reached a safe place, Phrixus sacrificed his savior, a ram, to Zeus. Zeus took this ram to heaven. His skin, called the “Golden Fleece,” became the central theme of the myth about the journey of the Argonauts: it was for the Golden Fleece that they undertook their dangerous journey. The sign is a symbolic image of curved horns. On the other hand, it resembles a schematic representation of the eyebrows or brow ridges and nose. Some astrologers believe that it is on the face and head of a person born under the sign of Aries that the stars and elements have the greatest influence. Aries is the sign of pioneers and warriors. Typical Aries are courageous, full of energy, self-confident, if not self-confident, and distinguished by devotion to high ideals. Their vital activity is striking. Aries are impulsive, but capable of deep feelings that turn into devotion and constancy in love and friendship. At the same time, Aries remain apologists for free love; their devotion to their loved ones often has nothing to do with physical fidelity. Aries have a creative and enthusiastic nature. Typical shortcomings of Aries are excessive pride, impatience, a tendency towards dictatorship, the habit of imposing their opinion, and narcissism.

Ancient Greece has been famous for its myths for a very long time. Even children know some of them. One of the most popular ancient Greek myths, after, is the myth of the Golden Fleece.

As is known from ancient Greek mythology, the golden fleece was the skin of a ram, which was sent down from heaven by the goddess Nephele. Among the Greeks, she was listed as the goddess of clouds, the former wife of King Amathant of Boeotia.

Legend of the Golden Fleece

The wife of the king of Boeotia, Nephele, was unusually charming. She was the goddess of clouds. They lived together for quite a long time, raising two children, a girl and a boy named Gella and Frixus. But their family life did not last long. The Boeotian people disliked their queen and in a cunning way forced Amafant to drive his wife out of the kingdom.

The goddess returned to heaven, and the king married someone else. But day by day Nephela suffered more and more without her children. This could be seen from the streams of her tears that turned into raindrops.

Amathant's new wife was a Phrygian princess named Bino. She was a cold and very calculating woman who knew how to get her way. More than anything else, Bino did not love the girl and boy that were left from her lover’s ex-wife. She planned to get the children out of her way once and for all.

The beginning of her plan was the order to exile Frixus and Hella to a remote mountain pasture. Later, Bino used all sorts of tricks to try to make her husband think that the gods themselves wanted his children to die. The trick was that if Amathant did not obey the will of the gods, he would face a crop failure and famine among the people.

In order for Amafant to not have any suspicions that his wife was wrong, Bino agreed with the Boeotian women to sow the fields with dried grain in the spring. And so, when the time came to harvest, all the people of Boeotia became alarmed. The crops did not sprout.

The king himself was alarmed by the crop failure. He understood that now his people would starve. But even this did not make him think that his children were to blame. To find out the cause of the crop failure, Amathant sent several messengers to the oracle in Delphi.

But even here the insidious Bino and her faithful servants arrived. Together they intercepted the messengers on their way back to the house and, bribing them with expensive gifts, ordered them to tell the king that he must kill his children. Only in this way will it be possible to get rid of the sorrowful misfortune.

Hearing the bad news from his messengers, Amathant fell into grief and began to prepare for the inevitable sacrifice. Meanwhile, his children were playing with the sheep in the pasture and did not suspect anything. And suddenly they noticed among the ordinary sheep a huge ram with golden wool. It was a messenger from their mother. He warned them of the impending danger and offered them his help. The help was that the ram was supposed to take them to a distant country, where the children would have a better future.

The children and the ram took off into the clouds and rushed into the distance. But during the flight, the girl became too exhausted and could no longer hold on to the ram, falling into the deep sea. The boy was safely taken to the kingdom of the Colchians, where King Eet received him.

The king sacrificed the fleece of the mythical ram to the god Zeus. For this, Eetus was predicted to have a long reign as long as the golden skin of the ram was in his kingdom. For additional protection of the golden fleece, the king assigned a powerful dragon to guard it.

Showing history in reality

This story tells about the modern Dardanelles Strait, which the Greeks once called the Hellespont or Hella, in honor of the girl who disappeared in that place.

The Dardanelles is located between the European peninsula of Galliopoli and northwestern Asia Minor.

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The Golden Fleece

in Greek mythology, the golden skin of a magic ram, guarded by a dragon from the king of Colchis, Aeetes; was kidnapped by the Argonauts under the leadership of Jason.

The Golden Fleece

monthly artistic and literary-critical magazine of the Symbolists, 1906-09, Moscow. Editor-publisher - N. P. Ryabushinsky. Symbolist books were published under the magazine's brand.

Mythological dictionary

The Golden Fleece

From the myth of the Argonauts - the precious skin of a magic ram, kept in Colchis, King Pelias promised to return power to Jason if he delivered this skin to him.

The Golden Fleece

"The Golden Fleece",

The Golden Fleece

"The Golden Fleece", illustrated magazine on art and literature. Published monthly in Moscow in 1906–09 at the expense of the manufacturer N.P. Ryabushinsky (editor-publisher). Around Z. R." The main representatives of Russian symbolism united (initially V. Ya. Bryusov, D. S. Merezhkovsky, A. Bely, Z. N. Gippius, later Vyacheslav Ivanov, A. A. Blok, G. Chulkov, etc.). On the pages of the magazine and at the exhibitions of contemporary Russian artists it organized, mysticism and subjectivism in relation to art were manifested; artistic creativity was proclaimed as a kind of religious “action.” Exhibitions “Z. R." introduced Russian viewers to the latest trends in Russian and Western European art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Wikipedia

Golden Fleece (Zavetinsky district)

The Golden Fleece- a farm in the Zavetinsky district of the Rostov region.

It is part of the Tyulpanovskoye rural settlement.

Golden Fleece (disambiguation)

The Golden Fleece:

• The Golden Fleece- in ancient Greek mythology, the golden skin of a ram sent by the goddess of the clouds Nephele, or Hermes on the orders of Hera, or Zeus himself, on whose back the children of the Orchomen king Athamas - Phrixus and Hella - went to the shores of Asia, fleeing the persecution of their stepmother Ino (or, according to another version of the myth, Aunt Biadika).
• The Golden Fleece - the tragedy of Corneille (1660)
• The Golden Fleece - short story by Théophile Gautier (1839)
• The Golden Fleece is a monthly artistic and literary-critical magazine published in Moscow in 1906-1909.
• The Golden Fleece is a sculptural composition in the city of Sochi, illustrating the famous ancient Greek myth about the Argonauts and the Golden Fleece.
• The Golden Fleece is an annual All-Russian Olympiad on the history of world artistic culture.

Golden Fleece (Gautier)

The Golden Fleece- a short story by Théophile Gautier, first published in six feuilletons in the newspaper La Presse on August 6-9 and 11-12, 1839..

The Golden Fleece

The Golden Fleece- in ancient Greek mythology, the golden skin of a ram sent by the goddess of the clouds Nephele, or Hermes on the orders of Hera, or Zeus himself, on whose back the children of the Orchomen king Athamas - Phrixus and Gella - went to the shores of Asia, fleeing the persecution of their stepmother Ino (or, according to another version of the myth, Aunt Biadika). On the way, Gella fell into the sea, which was then named the Hellespont - “Sea of ​​Gella” (the modern Dardanelles Strait).

Phrixus reached the coast of Colchis (modern Western Georgia). Here he sacrificed a ram to Zeus, and presented the removed golden fleece to the king of Colchis. According to a later version of the myth, the ram himself shook off his golden skin. The Golden Fleece, which became the magical guarantor of the prosperity of the Colchians, was guarded by a dragon in the grove of Ares, from where it was stolen and taken to Greece by the Argonauts under the leadership of Jason.

The myth of the Golden Fleece reflects the history of early connections between Ancient Greece and the Caucasus. According to legend, gold was mined in the Caucasus by immersing the skin of a sheep in the waters of a gold-bearing river; the fleece on which particles of gold were deposited acquired great value. But this mining method has not been confirmed, that is, it is not clear whether it is possible to extract gold sand from flowing rivers and streams in this way.

Strabo reports the following:.... In their country, as they say, mountain streams bring gold, and the barbarians catch it with sieves and shaggy skins. This is where, they say, the myth of the Golden Fleece arose.

Golden Fleece (magazine)

"The Golden Fleece"- a monthly artistic and literary critical magazine published in Moscow in 1906 - 1909. The editorial office and office were located on Novinsky Boulevard. A total of 34 issues of the magazine were published. The name goes back to the St. Petersburg symbolist circle "Argonauts". It was conceived as a continuation of the St. Petersburg “World of Art”.

The editor-publisher is N.P. Ryabushinsky, the actual head of the literary department at first is S.A. Sokolov. The significant financial resources invested in “The Golden Fleece” by Ryabushinsky (unprecedented for modernist publications) contributed to both the attraction of a wide range of eminent employees and the high artistic level of the magazine’s design. The magazine contained abundant illustrations (vignettes and other page decorations made by L. Bakst, E. E. Lanceray, K. A. Somov and other major Russian and foreign artists, color photographs of portraits and landscapes, portraits of authors prepared specifically for publication in the magazine, which made up a large portrait gallery). For the first six months it was published in parallel in Russian and French, and poetic texts were also translated into French. Since 1908, the publisher has refused to finance the quarto format chosen for reproductions of works of art.

Initially, the main representatives of Russian symbolism were published in The Golden Fleece. After Sokolov-Krechetov left due to conflicts with Ryabushinsky in 1907, V. Ya. Bryusov, Andrei Bely, D. S. Merezhkovsky, Z. N. Gippius, M. A. Kuzmin, Y. Baltrushaitis broke with the magazine. Vyach began to play a leading role in the literary department of the Golden Fleece. Ivanov, A. A. Blok, G. Chulkov, S. A. Auslander.

Initially, without a clear program, during this period the magazine conducted a polemic with the magazine “Libra”, contrasting the aestheticism and individualism of “Libra” with the understanding of art as a religious-mystical “conciliar” action. Of particular importance were Blok’s articles on the artist’s civic responsibility to the people and society.

K. D. Balmont, Fyodor Sologub, N. Minsky, M. A. Voloshin, S. Gorodetsky, V. Rozanov, I. A. Bunin, L. N. Andreev, B. K. also collaborated in The Golden Fleece. Zaitsev, A. M. Remizov, B. A. Sadovsky, K. Chukovsky, the French poet Mersereau and others. The Golden Fleece published books by Balmont, Sologub, Blok, Remizov and other writers. The magazine organized the art exhibitions “Blue Rose” (1907) and “Salon of the Golden Fleece” (1908).

Golden Fleece (Sochi)

"The Golden Fleece"- a symbolic composition illustrating the famous ancient Greek myth of the Argonauts and the Golden Fleece.

Collocation The Golden Fleece Every person probably knows or has heard of it. Moreover, the meaning of the phrase The Golden Fleece It’s more or less clear to everyone, but many people can only guess what a fleece is.

The expression itself The Golden Fleece came to us from Greek mythology. The golden fleece is the golden skin of a ram. In different variations, ancient myths tell the story of the miraculous rescue from pursuers of the son of one of the kings of the Greek cities named Phrixus on the shores of Colchis (the current eastern coast of the Black Sea). For his salvation, he sacrificed a ram with a golden skin to Zeus, and presented the skin itself to the king of Colchis as a token of gratitude. This golden fleece later became a magical guarantor of the well-being and prosperity of the inhabitants of Colchis. He was guarded in a secret grove by a fierce dragon.

But the Greeks, led by a certain Jason, on the ship “Argo” (Argonauts) set out on an expedition with the goal of taking possession of the symbol of wealth - the golden fleece, and taking it to Greece, which they eventually managed to do. This is the brief history of the myth of the Golden Fleece. Allegorically The Golden Fleece is a symbol of wealth that they strive to acquire.

But the word fleece itself, according to various explanatory dictionaries of the Russian language, means not only, and not even so much, the skin of a sheep or ram, but

1. Sheep's wool, which is preserved when sheared in the form of one continuous layer.

2. Fleece Wed (from RU to tear, to tear?) RU on And RU ́nya,all the wool from a whole sheep, removed during shearing...

3. Fleece - crowd, heap, flock, school (about fish). Herring and ide walk in runes and runes.

This word is now considered obsolete and is practically not used separately from the adjective “golden”.

Other interesting expressions from Russian speech:

Know by heart - this expression is familiar to everyone from school. Know on

The expression tit for tat is quite simple and understandable, like Newton’s third law. Means

One of the main versions of the origin of the expression If the mountain does not go to Mohammed,

Expression There is life in the old dog yet with a high degree of probability it went

One more, last legend, and my chronicle is finished...