10-09-2026, 03:48 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-09-2026, 03:49 PM by Jorge_Stolfi.)
(09-09-2026, 08:14 AM)Aga Tentakulus wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.That just made me laugh. Only a Chinese person could write such nonsense. Amber and alchemy. Amber literally floats towards you and you collect it with a net. A European would have known that.
That is the case only in a few places in the world. Maybe just in the Baltic Sea. Amber from the Baltic to Southern Europe is one of the earliest long-distance trade routes known. Amber can be mined in a few other places, like the Dominican Republic. That made amber a precious stone everywhere else. Like in China, where apparently it was considered a "divine substance".
No one knows exactly what alchemical recipe that note in the "Red rooster" entry was referring to. Presumably it was some process that turned egg yolks into a hard yellow-orange transparent substance that looked like real amber. It does not seem impossible...
All the best, --stolfi
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