imaginings of the mind and body

It is said that the great Greek man of medicine, Hippocrates, once presented the Temple of Apollo at Delphi a perfectly proportioned human skeleton made of gold. He might have made Lucia a pair of gold earrings while he was at it! Creep! It was the least he could have done. All he had to do was bury them next to some geophysical landmark and 2,000 years later I could have waltzed up in my working gear (headscarf, Gap dungarees) and began scratching away at the earth with my sweet mini garden trowel.
Gold, when buried deep within the earth, retains it's all of it's charms even if it does come out looking like a dead cat turd and squashed as a boxer's nose. Eeeeeeeek!