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1. Gold

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   Cultural Significance
   Across numerous cultures, gold is deeply embedded in mythological, religious, and aesthetic contexts. It symbolizes divinity, purity, and eternal life. In ancient Mesoamerica, for example, gold was called teotl-iztli ("divine excrement"), reflecting the belief that it originated from the sun god's digestive residue [16]. The cultural value assigned to gold often vastly supersedes its [industrial utility](/ent…

2. Mortal

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   Mortality and Technology
   The interaction between mortality and high-level artifice highlights the human desire to transcend fundamental limitations. The construction of artificial beings, such as the Golden Handmaidens created by Hephaestus, represents an attempt to delegate the tedious, time-consuming tasks of existence to entities that do not share the creator’s temporal limitations \[4]. However, even these creations inherit subtle imperfectio…