Blue

Egyptian religion

• Blue appears in Egyptian religion.

  Egyptian faience and some amulets use a blue-green glaze. The color is a made sky-and-water, not a later Marian cloth.

  from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972

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• Blue is associated with Nile.

  Later description paints the Nile as a blue course. The river’s work in Egyptian religion is inundation and kingship, not a color-theology.

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• Blue is associated with Water.

  Water is often named blue in ordinary speech. The likeness is optical and local, not a cult.

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• Indigo is associated with Blue.

  Indigo is a blue dye. The color-name and the plantation crop should not be collapsed into mood.

  from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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• Woad is associated with Blue.

  Woad yields a blue. Caesar’s vitrum and later antiquarian “Pictish blue” are not indigo plantations.

  from Julius Caesar · Gallic War, c. 50s BCE; Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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• Dye is associated with Blue.

  Dye crafts include blues from woad and indigo. Politics of cloth-color are local laws and markets.

  from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE; Julius Caesar · Gallic War, c. 50s BCE

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