mars, venus, and alchemy

I was helping a student look for an African chemist and found this interesting information on alchemy for Egypt. In the manuscript (from the 1600s) which I copied to the left, metals were linked to planets. Mars is linked to iron, and Venus is linked to copper. In the discussion about this topic it also talked about the planets being linked to male and female, Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. It then also linked all three by pointing out that men have a much higher concentration of iron in their blood stream than women, thus Men/Mars/Iron and women have a much higher concentration of copper in their blood than do men and hence Women/Venus/copper. Fascinating the stuff you find while helping students with projects.