During its most recent journey on earth, the gold chain with the green jade monkey pendant passed through the hands of many people until it was finally returned to rest in the earth. Of all the many people who saw, coveted and admired it, not a single soul had noticed a lengthy, but minute inscription barely visible to the naked eye on the back of the pendant which read (roughly translated) in an ancient and long forgotten Chinese script:

"What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out;

What is tightly held in the arms will not slip loose;

Through this the offering of sacrifice by descendants

Will never come to an end