Posted on 03/09/2024 12:34:36 AM PST by ganeemead
Lord Byron claimed:
The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, and his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold....
Purple and gold were considered to be royal colors in past ages. Our textbooks tell us that was because gold and purple dye were always expensive, but there is a better explanation than that.
Classical authors like Ovid and Plato tell us there was a "golden age" prior to the flood when Kronos (Saturn) was the "king of heaven"; in that language, our sun is the "king of heaven" now...
The oldest oral traditions of a numbere of peoples speak of a "purple dawn" prior to that golden age. Could gold and purple have been the primary colors of the sky in the two world ages prior to our own?
A dark purple sky is what you'd expect if our planet had been aligned with a dwarf star in past ages. Could that be why dinosaur and hominid remains all have the huge eye sockets they do (and why leftover creatures from those ages like lemurs, tarfsiers, and owls have their huge eyes?
Troy McLachlan describes those possibilities
It’s because of LSU. Time travelers told the ancients about LSU.
They didn’t have a word for blue?
https://www.grunge.com/285728/the-real-reason-ancient-people-didnt-see-the-color-blue/
In Vietnamese the words for blue and for green are both xanh. When they are distinguished, green becomes xanh lá cây = green/blue-leaf-tree and xanh = blue/green = xanh như trời = blue/green like sky. Pronounce like sine la cay and sine nyi choi.
What a coincidence… my wife this morning is wearing a purple top with a gold necklace that has a miniature Eiffel Tower dangling from it.
She looks very royal!
Tyrian purple: The lost ancient pigment that was more valuable than gold
Tyre is 30 miles north of Tel Shiqmona, where the purple pigment was created from the dried and boiled guts of three species of predatory sea snails.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/science/archaeology-tyrian-purple-murex.html
Because each snail yielded little more than a drop of the discharge — a clear, malodorous liquid — some 250,000 were required to produce an ounce of dye, by some accounts.
Purple was labor-intensive, but so widely produced that piles of shells discarded millenniums ago are now geographical features in the region. The dye was also so pricey — worth more than three times its weight in gold, according to a Roman edict issued in 301 A.D. — that its use was reserved for priests, nobility and royalty.
Correct. You would not see blue ender a purple sky....
Or the Furman Purple Paladins...
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