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date_added: "2025-02-27"
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# Midas in Pactolus

## Visual Elements


Painterly scenery of a pond / lake with greenish water, surrounded by rocks and greeneries. An old man wearing all earthy-brown clothing can be seen scooping the water.

## Cultural Context

King Midas, granted his wish to turn everything he touched to gold, found it a curse as he could neither eat nor drink. Bacchus instructed him to wash in the Pactolus River to reverse it. In Poussin’s painting, a humbled Midas stands behind a river god and putti, symbolizing the river’s source and Bacchus. Created after Poussin’s arrival in Rome, it was among the first artworks acquired by The Met in 1871.

A parable about the curse of turning everything to gold — resonant for a crypto-native project. Based on the Poussin painting, one of the first artworks acquired by The Met in 1871.

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## Justification

The myth of King Midas connects to the Greek ancestor lineage — one of the foundational mythological traditions in the Mibera system.
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**Dominant Colors:** Black, muted brown, bright light yellow.
**Date Added:** 2025-02-27
**Introduced By:** Fedor / Jani