What's new
Troll Kingdom

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

Nascent Drama

Blue in Judaism: In the Torah[6], the Israelites were commanded to put fringes, tzitzit, on the corners of their garments, and to weave within these fringes a "twisted thread of blue (tekhelet)".[7]
 
In ancient days, this blue thread was made from a dye extracted from a Mediterranean snail called the hilazon.
 
Maimonides claimed that this blue was the colour of “the clear noonday sky”; Rashi, the colour of the evening sky.[8]
 
According to several rabbinic sages, blue is the colour of God’s Glory.[9]
 
Staring at this colour aids in mediation, bringing us a glimpse of the “pavement of sapphire, like the very sky for purity”, which is a likeness of the Throne of God.[10] (The Hebrew word for glory.)
 
Many items in the Mishkan, the portable sanctuary in the wilderness, such as the menorah, many of the vessels, and the Ark of the Covenant, were covered with blue cloth when transported from place to place.[11]
 
In Thailand, blue is associated with Friday on the Thai solar calendar.
 
Anyone may wear blue on Fridays and anyone born on a Friday may adopt blue as their colour.
 
The Thai language, however, is one that has had trouble distinguishing blue from green.
 
The default word for Blue was recently สีน้ำเงิน literally, the colour of silver, a poetical reference to the silvery sheen of the deep blue sea.
 
It now means Navy Blue, and the default word is now สีฟ้า literally, the colour of the sky.[12]
 
In the early 1960s, the United States Air Force ran a television commercial with this jingle:
 
They took the blue from the skies
And the pretty girls' eyes
And a touch of Old Glory too;
And gave it to the men who proudly wear the U. S. Air Force Blue!
 
The name comes from the word "Dark" (which originated from Old English dark, derk, deork; Anglo-Saxon dearc, and Gaelic and Irish dorch, dorcha) and "Blue" (taken from French and originated from the Indo-European root bhlewos).
 
— Colour coordinates —
Hex triplet #00008B
B (r, g, b) (0, 0, 139)
HSV (h, s, v) (240°, 100%, 25%)
Source X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top