Breaking the Color Code
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Colors in ancient Egypt had very specific symbolism and meaning, and they can tell us much about many of the ancient artworks of Egypt.
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February 16th, 2006 at 2:40 pm
This article is very long. Thanks though, it came in handy for my projoct!!
June 13th, 2006 at 6:08 am
My name is Tayla and i am a huge Egpyt fan. I was looking through the website and i wonder why is anubis and the other king holding hand in one of the pictures!
December 10th, 2006 at 7:32 pm
i love your web site you helped my daughter so much with her progect thankyou so much
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sam and my daughter alexa
December 29th, 2006 at 10:52 am
Dear Ms. Stratos,
Greetings. I am writing in reference to your splendid article on ancient Egyptian color symbolism. I came across it online as part of research I am doing on color psychology. This is in support of a learning game I helped designed called Prelude, which uses color in various ways. The game is currently being beta tested in schools and youth agencies.
I am particularly interested in the following passage “A person was said to be doing “green things” if his behavior was beneficial or life producing.” Would you be willing to share its provenance? In turn, I’d like to share it with my game co-creator, Don Pavey. Don is an erudite octogenarian living and writing in the UK. If I just give him the quote he’ll want to know its source. Don is the author of Colour & Humanism. The following is an extract: “Dante’s use of green… refer[s] back… to the Gnostics who saw Mind itself as the ‘Great Green’ and the Heaven Space or Celestial Nile….A century later the mystic poetess Hildegard of Bingen saw the Holy Spirit as being of ‘most noble greenness’” [2003: 51]. So you can see why your reference this would be of interest to him.
Thank you for your consideration. In closing, I’d like to say how lucid, engaging, and informative your writing is. You are fortunate to have so well married your avocation and vocation. Best wishes for a happy New Year. And here’s to doing green things!
Sincerely,
Howard B. Esbin, PhD.
Heliotrope, founder and director
www.heliotrope.ca