Green

• Green is associated with Rebirth.

  Green as new plant and green as Osiris’s restored face are easy to rhyme. The hymn of grain and the Egyptian dead should still be kept as two plots.

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• Green is associated with Season.

  A green season is a farmer’s fact. Festivals hung on that fact are local.

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• Leaf is associated with Green.

  Green is the ordinary color-name of a living leaf. Festival greens and Osiris’s face are other jobs of the color.

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• Jade is associated with Green.

  Jade is often green in both China and Mesoamerica. Color is shared; the rites are not.

  from Berthold Laufer · Jade, 1912; Karl A. Taube · The Symbolism of Jade in Classic Maya Religion, 2005

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Islam

• Green is associated with Islam.

  Green has been used in Islamic banners, tiles, and later national colors. That is a historical color-use, not Osiris’s funerary face and not leaf-theology.

  from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

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Egyptian religion · Nile valley

• Green appears in Nile valley.

  Osiris’s green face is an Egyptian image of restored life. Keep it off Islamic green and off leaf-green.

  from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE

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Egyptian religion

• Osiris is associated with Green.

  Some Egyptian images give Osiris a green face. Green here is a funerary color of restored life, not ordinary leaf-theology.

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

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