About the mask

“The mask is in the form of a rounded oval in thin sheet gold, shallowly embossed to represent a human face shown frontally. There are small attachment holes to each side presumably originally to fasten the mask to the head of the deceased. Masks on sheet gold are known from across the globe and their use in funerary ritual seems to have been a constant human practice where the importance of the deceased and the availability of gold allowed it. Since gold can seldom be linked to a source on the basis of composition, and the technology is too simple to be linked to a specific culture, suggesting an origin has to be a matter of stylistic consideration. The various experts who have considered the mask from a stylistic point of view, such as Mycenaean specialist professor Robert Laffineur,1 support its Greek origin and its antiquity…”

Since the dawn of time, mankind has been living practically all over the world: in China, South America, Egypt, the Middle East, in the Mediterranean Basin, even among the Guanches of the Canary Islands, processes of body preservation have been observed.

The aspiration to eternity is as old as humanity for a category of humans. These men of all times in their quest for eternity have sought to preserve their identity forever and awaken their dormant powers. The human characteristic is defined by its face, the spirit molds the body. During particular funeral rituals, masks of different materials, leather, wood, ceramic, reconstituted stone, silver, gold are used to cover the face according to what it is supposed to represent. It is conceivable that the mask is a garment of immortality in some cases that would remain after the destruction of the living. Before Galileo, the earth was considered the center of the world and the sun and moon as planets.

The sun is life, gold its metal, therefore a symbol of consciousness, knowledge and light. Gold being unalterable, therefore indestructible, it appears as the symbol of immortality, therefore an attribute of the gods. The light of eternity in the survival is necessarily linked to a perdurance therefore, to have a form which does not destroy it is the insurance of an eternal life, which would prove a densification of knowledge; possible accession to hierarchical plans of high knowledge.

The golden mask is a symbol of eternity and light.