Tales of Moroccans, treasures and jins

I am finally starting to get it, but it took a while. " What's your angle", or "What's in it for you" is what people wonder and so I've heard this bizzar theory that I did not fully understand the first few times, but now I know.
When I missed the bus or more correctly when the bus missed me and as I was waiting for the ride back to the lodge I had the following conversation with two guys sitting with me making sure I get my share of the morning nicotine that they are enjoying.
"Morrocans can find minerals" I don't quite understand the Arabic or the topic so I figure they are asking what minerals exist in Morocco. The word minerals here means gold, but I don't interpet it that way.
So I say, "Morocco produces phosphate"
They are not impressed and the other guy says "Morrocans are good at finding minerals ( meaning gold) but this is lost on me since I am thinking they mean minerals.
"I don't think there is any gold in Morocco, at least not a lot of it."
They move on and start asking if I paid for the ticket ect. Now I know where they are going. I have to concentrate on what they are saying so I forget about the significance of Morrocans and gold.
Next, while waiting for dinner with one of the locals out of the blue the father asks the same kind of question. And I reply "Phosphate." He is not satisfied and asks the question differently and the son who speaks some English says he means gold, but does not elaborate. There is that gold again. I start explaining that there is no gold in Morocco, but he says here, not in Morrocco. Now I am wondering who is really confused me or him. Finally he asks me in a somewhat clearer accent and words I can understand "Do you have a map that showes where to dig for gold."
"How in the world would I know where to dig for gold mines around here or even in Morocco." I am not sure why we are having this conversation but I kindly reply laughingly " No I have no maps that show gold locations" and then add "if I did I would go get the gold myself" - later as I understand things better I wonder if that might have been interpreted incorrecty.
A few days later one of the staff wants to sit down and chat. We are conversing in Arabic. As we chat he brings up the subject of Moroccans and gold. I just stay quite. I know by now that phosphate is the wrong answer. He tells me that Moroccans are known for being able to find gold. I find this to be a strange statement. So I ask " how is that." I figure this will also assure him that I don't have that ability. He is exited now and speaking faster in the bedou dialog, so it's a bit harder to understand. He explains that there used to be Moroccans passing through the area and since they could not carry the gold, they burried it and made a map of the location. So now I am starting to get the picture. Some people are thinking that I have a map ponting to some treasures. But this does not make sense because Moroccans did not venture this far in large numbers.
A few days latter another staff member asks me if I want to go for a walk. We are going to walk up Wadi Dana. The sun will be setting in less than 2 hours. It's still quite hot. The evening is starting to sip the brightness out of the scenery. The mountains are surrendering to the night. Soon the cool air will carry with it the heat burried in the ornamental rocks pinned to the surface of the mountains.
Rather than taking the river bed which is what most visitors do we head up away from the river bed. We get to a rugged path. This is easier to walk on instead of the sandy river bed. This is what the locals use. The path is also wide enough for a 4x4.
We pass a collection of bedou tents. There are many goats everywhere. There are a couple of dogs, one sitting right in the middle of of the path. I am told that the dogs will only chase other wild animals and don't bother people. It's time to test the theory. I pass close to the dog, almost stepping over him. He just sits there lazily yawning. We move on and pass a few more collection of tents. There are many goats. There are many tiny new born goats. It's a party. The young are calling their mothers, the mothers are answering, they are running towards each other, some are sucklin, some are eating, and there are the loners.
We are past the tents. In two seperate places there are the remains of big cement sewage pipes. Someone built bridges, that were quickly removed by flash floods. Now they look out of place. We are headed to the spring that supplies the water for the lodge. This is about a mile and a half from the lodge, about two and a half km. In this heat it is a treck. The guy says, we made a mistake, going out without water. I agree. We make it to the spring . it is covered. We chat for a while and then turn back.
There are some holes dug up in the ground. He stops and asks "you know what these are." I say "No."
"People digging for gold."
Sure enough the connection of Moroccans to gold comes up. So here is the story, at least the latest story.

Apparently there are believed to be treasures buried here. After all this area has seen armies and settlers for thousands of years, and there are graves from ancient times. Also, armies passing through after a conquest or individuals took the liberty of stashing gold and treasures they could not carry in caves or in the ground.  It is also believed that some of these graves and caves have spells on them so if you enter them, you will die or bad things happen to you.
This is where the Moroccan connection comes in.  People here believe that many Moroccans know how to communicate with the jin. So if you can find the right Moroccan, he can find out from the jin where the treasure is and then work with the jin to remove any spells and now you have pure gold.
A very short side note for those who don't know about jins. God created the angels from light, the jin from fire, and Adam from clay. So the jins do inhabit the earth, but cannot be seen my humans. Jins have abilities that humans do not have and vice versa.
So some people here apparently believe I have this ability and maybe I know where the gold is. This explains some reactions I have gotten when I said I went on a hike by myself.
So as we are heading back the guy says to me jokingly. I think people will think that we were off looking for gold.