Video travel to the East 10.2007
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History of colors: color symbolism of ancient people in Central Asia and Egypt
One of the most widespread cults was a cult of sun and light. Therefore attitude toward a color depends on closer this color to a color of sun (it must be light and bright). Colors most of all similar to a sunlight were white and golden (yellow) colors. Therefore these colors were considered as divine colors. They were colors of gods, sacred animals, priests, etc.
Red color was a sacred color too. In Egypt red lotus was a symbol of Osiris’s blood; this color was a color of nobility, soldiers and tsars.
Osiris (a land of dead god) was pictured with green color which was contained two opposite meaning: live and death. Green color was a part of ancient Egyptians favorite color combination: green - white - red.
In Ancient Egypt blue or dark blue colors had great value. It was a color of truth. Therefore, dark blue stone (which is called lapis lazuli) was especially valued. The same color symbolized heaven, which was Ra home (Supreme God of Sun).
Black was considered as color of evil and devil. Like in other cultures, black color had negative meanings - evil, sin, misfortune, etc.
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