There is an ancient Egyptian story that bees were born from a tear in the eye of the sun, touching upon their
goldenness, the sense that honey is gold, materialized sunlight.
Before we leave the hymn, it is worth summarizing what it and the other examples of the topos of divine dressing have taught us about the
goldenness of Aphrodite.
And yet, for all of Prague's built magnificence, there is something gritty in its
goldenness.
The golden race, according to this reading, might be undesirable on account of its very goldenness.
However, if we read on a few stanzas, we find in the text a hint that the goodness of the new saeculum might have been read as depending precisely on its not experiencing the return of the golden race; and that what is at stake might be precisely the goldenness of the golden race.