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>the Ayutthaya kingdom was so rich that they had water cups that were made of solid gold. Literally everything was made of gold. Even their hand fans were gold and they had European countries sucking their dicks

What happened to Southeast Asia?

I went to the Ayutthaya museum today.
>even their paper was gold
lol LMAO

They have 12 foot miniature temples made of solid gold. What the fuck was this for? Lmao

The Buddhists were really upto something

>>511037751 (OP)
Is this the same as Maurya?
Maurya is good in civ7

>>511037799
>even their paper was gold
toilet?

>>511038400
No shit. They made like 100,000 Buddha statues full of gold. Some solid gold. Apparently their philosophy was whoever made the most buddhas accumulated the most karma or something.

>>511038634
Everything anon.

>>511037751 (OP)
there's no point in gold if it's too abundant
force is more vital
it's the sole justice in this world

>>511038729
Yeah. Their entire city was plated in gold. The walls. Buildings. Etc. I wonder where all that gold is today? Probably melted down and in the federal reserve bank or some shit.

>>511038729
>there's no point in gold if it's too abundant
gold is a great conductor

Any other countries like this have remnants of 600 year old solid gold objects for viewing? Never seen any. Apparently the story goes the main crypts of their temples remained hidden and not plundered until 1950, when they were discovered by thieves and the police hunted the thieves down and found the stolen objects. And then found the crypts.

All their manuscripts are on gold.

>>511039106
how are the guards there? how many cameras?
asking for a friend (he hates cameras)

>>511039203
There’s literally no guards. 2 or 3 staff members. Absolutely insane amount of gold there. Wasn’t watching for cameras.

>>511037751 (OP)
this is a seriously low brow retard thread anon
why did you equate gold to anything of substance?

>>511039309
Not sure anon. For the 13th-16th century they kinda had it figured out.

>>511037751 (OP)
Cool thread OP, very nice pics. All I have directly related. On topic, Hinayana Buddhism served it's purpose. Superseded by Vajrayana and then Mahayana.

>>511039508
Interesting. I knew nothing about Ayutthaya or this culture until I visited the ruins this week. I really felt how powerful they were. They were trading with everyone. Persians. China. Europe etc. very powerful nation at the time. I am fascinated by ancient eastern cultures. There is even a ruins here sort of shaped like a cathedral with clear European inspiration. And the last ayathayya king had a Christian son before he was assassinated in a coup.

>>511039656
The ruins of the main city are truly amazing. There’s like 100 temples everywhere. A lot of it is still intact. According to French traders they were plated in gold 650 years ago.

Btw photography is prohibited here and it’s rarely open so I risked getting arrested for you guys. You’re welcome.

This golden elephant is like a holy object for them almost. Beside’s the king’s sword its near the front of the showcase.

>>511037921
That is where their tiny dicks would go to pray to the sky, or monkey gods or whatever.

In the main ruins there’s literally thousands of ruined Buddha statues that supposedly had gold in their heads. So the Burmese raiders cracked them all open to take the gold out.

>>511040047
Whatever they prayed to they took it very seriously.

>>511037751 (OP)
Thais and vietnamese are low key pretty awesome, quite martial people aswel, if they got the whore problem in control it would be toptier

>>511039389
figured what out? all these dumb gold laden ancient societies couldn't even figure out not to build on swamps or in areas that get flooded

>>511040146
It’s annoying how 4chan removes exhiff data now. Fucks all my photos.
>>511040245
The whole country faced monsoons pretty often. Some of these obelisks are leaning hard as fuck but still standing. It’s cool.

>>511039656
>here is even a ruins here sort of shaped like a cathedral with clear European inspiration
A long long time ago blue-eyed blond-haired where there, they where a migratory people, left inspirations, monuments (usually pyramids), taught astrology (for farming) and law.

>>511037921
It’s made of wood and coated in gold paper.
If that was solid gold it wouldn’t be able to rest on glass

Did they have toilets made of gold?

>>511040376
Gold paper and leaf would not have held up that perfectly tho right?
>>511040400
Kek imagine little squat shit boxes made of gold

>>511040286
Just resize to Large before selecting a picture

Oh yeah I took a photo of the description and it mentions a gold plate.

>>511037921
>solid gold
lolno

>>511040561
The coolest is the sword no doubt. Apparently the thieves left the sword behind in the crypt when they plundered it in 1950.

>>511038556
No, but both were Buddhist kingdoms

Thailand = Ayuthhaya
Indian subcontinent= Maurya

>>511040713
Apparently Ayutthaya were one of the 3 great kingdoms of Asia and kind of encompassed most of SEA. And were highly advanced. It’s sad to see the sorry state most of SEA is in now due to government corruption communism and greed.

>>511037751 (OP)
>Ayutthaya
Built for BBC (Big Burmese Cock)

>>511040869
Apparently they were called Halosawee back then or something like that. I’ve learned a lot of history about them this week. It’s cool both of these kingdoms were rocking back in the day.

>>511037799
Where is this museum at ? And what happened to the kingdom I believe you're like looking at it. Museums are theft and laundering schemes. FYI.

>>511037751 (OP)
if lots of gold was available locally
then the gold wasn't worth much
law of supply and demand

>>511037751 (OP)
gold is worthless to me

>>511040977
It’s kinda hidden away in the city of Ayutthaya. There was literally one other person there. It’s insane. It was raining today but still I loved it. Cost 200 baht to get in for a foreigner. Which is like $5. More than worth it. The city is built around all the ruins. There’s temples everywhere. A main tourist section where the biggest ruins are. But there’s temples bridges and other decoration everywhere you can see for free. It was amazing. It’s insane how you can literally just walk off with pieces of an ancient civilization if you wanted to. But everyone has such respect for the place. There was no graffiti anywhere or anything.

>>511041115
the only use for gold is as a conductor, yet attahuwhutfuckingever didn't know electricity so gold had no value to them too. some jew just tricked them into worshipping this element by making tacky decorations of it

>>511039280
Because those are replicas. Most of their gold relics were stolen by IJA in WWII and collected by Yamashita. When the US island hopping is happening, he realized that they're in danger so he ordered to have them buried in the mountains of Luzon and buried the native slave labor they used. After the war, local Filipino politicians had backroom deals with the new Japanese government for the maps and most of those were dug out under the guise of "Japan-funded infrastructure projects" alongside the post-war reparations. That's the reason why Japan loved to send money to Philippines in the 50s-60s, it's to funnel out all those Southeast Asian gold they stole all over the region. Japan's post-war economic miracle was backed by the gold they held right after the war.

>>511041411
Those aren’t relics anon. The crypts were found in the 1950s. They were not plundered like the rest of everything else! I’ve seen it with my owns eyes. No way that’s fake. It looked amazing. There was other art too like Chinese and Persian stuff.

>>511039280
When I went to Thai museums, there were college-aged cuties (or guys) who would sit in each room keeping an eye on the visitors. The ones I went to had very few visitors.

>>511041386
there are more uses than that
and gold does have some very good properties as a store of value
but yeah, it's all a matter of human consensus on the issue
also when shit really hits the fan you can't eat your gold

The gold headdress is amazing. Says it was what “ayutthaya court ladys” wore. So not even like actual royals.
>>511041590
Right. Ayuthayya fell because they came under siege for 1 year or something. The wall was amazing. It’s almost completely intact all the way around (not the height) so there’s only one entrance. Me and my wife had to walk for over a mile to get in lmao.

>>511037921
That's miniature of temple/stupa which enshrines Buddha's sacred relics.

>>511039925
White Elephant is very scared in Buddhism.

>>511040047
>monkey god
That's India retard. This is Thailand.

>>511041490
I'm talking about most of the gold. There's not much gold relics in the region today because of Japan. In the past there were 15-foot golden buddhas. That region, India included, held most of the gold in the world for most part of history. People there were obsessed with gold. India's story is similar, but it was the Brits who sucked most of the gold out of India and Burma instead.

Oh definitely most of the gold was plundered. It’s a shame. Especially with how liberal Japan was with their own gold. Hideyoshi Toyatoma or whatever his name was literally gave it away to the French.

Oh. And I did actually take a photo of one of the gates of the main city. I’m sure a lot of it crumbled and is lost. But you can get an idea of the original height maybe. Another thing. In the city outskirts there’s 1 gate sitting randomly behind a school. The story goes there used to be 200 gates like that to get into the kingdom.

>>511040683
I hope those thieves were shot, if only for lack of taste! That's a very nice sword.

>>511042255
In the exhibit there’s a video showing when the sword was found. It was completely black with dust. So I guess the thieves didn’t think much of it.

>>511042327
The general design even looks like it's probably well-balanced, if heavy. I can just barely see what looks like some distal taper on some of the photos. Bit more thrust than cut with that kind of blade profile, though it would do both just fine.

>>511041264
I'm a fan bruv I gotta get my passport maxing up I'm stuck in the states. I thought it was like a little Thailand with a museum or something check your flag. Are you still there ? I got girls who go bkk often and have condo and shit out there so it would be cool to visit but I never started yet.

>>511037751 (OP)
You're a faggot aren't you?

>>511042639
Yeah I’m posting from my cell which is on international play plan
>>511042584
The video has a comprehensive interactive touch and play tour of the sword and how it was restored. The tip was broken in 3 pieces and mentioned that.

Close up for the details. Btw the sword is cool enough to have a name. It’s called the “Ayutthaya Sword of Victory” or the victory sword.

>>511038864
Copper and Silver are better conductors. Gold is mostly great because it doesn't oxidize. Hence why contacts get gold.

>>511042008
Japan was never a gold nation in most of its history. They aren't geographically blessed with metals and most of their pre-Meiji gold were from envoy gifts from China and Korea. They only started mining after the Meiji restoration and their eventual expansion to Hokkaido, the island that's actually blessed with gold veins for some geological reason. They started to value gold because they saw Europeans valued it highly as they rapidly westernized into a modern empire.

>>511043151
These three photos aren’t mine. Found these on Facebook just now.
>>511043122
Yep. And they were duped just like the Ottoman Empire got duped for oil.

Cargo cult
When everything is golden gold is worthless

Jeets
/thread

>>511043582
Not jeet. I’m white. Why you saging my thread? This is just a history thread anyway… how many people on /pol/ even knew this kingdom existed? Ride anon

>>511043639
Never mind him. Today OP was not a fag.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esX6Id-WxEc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ0w4B80uZA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK9u7Jz-vNA

>>511044702
Lol I’m making a thread on /his/ but I never post there so don’t know how well that will go.

>>511043582
Do you want more Epstein pee pee poo poo threads?

>>511038686
>>511038400
Yeah when i talk about how religion is a scam to enslave and use people, they call me this and that
Here we are, the most immaterialist religion with most materialistic vainly decorated monuments that serve no real or useful purpose .

maybe gold wasnt so precious and there wrre pther bigger riches

>>511046749
Good karma and enlightenment.

>>511037921
I have been there myself and there are lots of ancient structures like picrel that resemble.. antennas....

>>511046179
Give me an example of Buddhism used to enslave people. A king did it just because he could, is building beautiful things same as being materialistic ?

>>511037751 (OP)
>shiny metal equals wealth
Uhh, not really.. It's a shiny cup. A clay cup would have been equally good. You're not rich unless you can trade gold for something that's been produced. Without production and an actual economy, gold is just another metal.

>>511037921
That shit isn't solid and it isn't gold. That table would not be able to hold the weight if it was.

>>511040713
Maurya was a Jain kingdom.