My own thinking on amber is to relate to
its magical properties. It can build up a static charge; to touch it is to
be shocked. For the ancients this can have only been magic, something from the
gods. At the tip of a baton/magic wand, you can easily imagine the
priest[ess]/magician scaring the hell out of someone by touching the wand to
someone's body, causing a shock.
Maybe it's not significant, but I'm
fascinated by the names of Clytemnestra's daughters, Elektra (=Amber) and
Chrysothemis (=Golden Order). You wonder if some mythic element is at work here,
something otherwise lost.
The third daughter, Iphigeneia (=Mothering
a Strong Race) is said by some to be Helen's daughter by Theseus,
fostered by her Aunt Clytemnestra, and it is Iphigeneia who who is
sacrificed to Artemis at Aulis by her uncle or father, Agamemmnon.
Mark.