How Did the Major Alchemical Metals Get Associated With Planets?

How did they get associated with planets in the first place? Very, very, very early on. I mean, it's some of the earliest and they shift, except the ones that go. Mercury is all over the place. It does get identified with something called the lectrum, which is a mix of silver and gold and copper. And so sometimes that's associated early Greek material, early Greek writings associated with the planets.

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