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Message:: [QUOTE="ddddd, post: 3316775, member: 22377"]Thank you for the lead! I'm now reading through that document. You're correct that there does not seem to be any reference to gold. If anything, it seems like it would have made more sense to make the gold part a blue color. Here are a few interesting snippets that I found: "In fact it is more likely that for centuries, awareness of the family tree of ancestors has been a phenomenon peculiar to the Turkic-speaking peoples of Central Asia. They consider themselves as descendants of one animal which was their ancestor. [...] the Mongols –descendants of a blue wolf and a deer; the Teles people – descendants of a wolf and a daughter of the king of the Huns; Turks say they descended from a she- wolf and prince of the Huns." "Having looked at Kokbory (Blue Wolf) in Turkic mythology, it is consedered to be one of the sacred concepts. Turks call the wolf “bory” (in Mongolian – shino / chinno). Ancient Turks called the wolf the “Blue kurt” as well. Kok (which means blue) is of blue color, blue sky. The Turkic “kurt” is a root of the Kazakh word “kurtylu”. It means that “Blue Wolf”, that was sent by blue skies and saved Turkic tribes from death, is a specially revered and sacred animal” (Gumilyov, 1999, pp. 480-481)."[/QUOTE]