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 Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 9:56 pm
So sitting here painting my nails and a random thought popped into my head(probably because I was looking up correspondences earlier). But the thought was do all, or at least the "major" deities have a color that is associated with Them? In my reading supposedly the God and Goddess for witchcraft Their colors are gold and silver, respectively(don't know if that's true or not) and while reading The Red Pyramid, Rick mentions several times that Set's color is red because he was associated with the desert(not sure how true that is since it's fiction but I have read that red was an "evil" color in Kemet because it was the color of unfertile ground). I'm asking about all pantheons.
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 10:20 pm
There are associations, yeah. I'm not sure across all pantheons, but definitely within Heathenry. Not every god has one, and for the most part I think it's SPG, but people form their own UPG for other gods anywa. Odin is definitely blue, and grey. Sky colours. Loki is warm colours - red and yellow and orange particularly. Freyja gold, pink or red, and green. Freyr green and brown. Heimdallr white, but I get a brown feeling from him as well.
Odin is traditionally linked with blue because of his blue cloak, and a lot of people get an orange feeling from Loki. Heimdallr is called "the White God". I tend to expand on things in quite a UPG way, though.
Of course it might be a bit related to synaesthesia, and random colour associations. Like when I hear "Set", I actually think more a strange deep blue colour. Anpu black and very dark brown, like well roasted coffee beans.... actually I suppose like the fertile Nile land. Aset, a lighter blue. Ra, red and brown. Now I don't know much about these deities, so the associations are just based on my vague feelings when thinking about the deities. I would like to stress that I don't think any of these are (necessarily) traditional associations, that they are all my UPG.
Edit: Also, I will move this to the deities subforum.
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 10:42 pm
Sanguina Cruenta There are associations, yeah. I'm not sure across all pantheons, but definitely within Heathenry. Not every god has one, and for the most part I think it's SPG, but people form their own UPG for other gods anywa. Odin is definitely blue, and grey. Sky colours. Loki is warm colours - red and yellow and orange particularly. Freyja gold, pink or red, and green. Freyr green and brown. Heimdallr white, but I get a brown feeling from him as well. I know like nothing on these deities. So wh are those colors associated with those deities? Quote: Of course it might be a bit related to synaesthesia, and random colour associations. Like when I hear "Set", I actually think more a strange deep blue colour. Anpu black and very dark brown, like well roasted coffee beans.... actually I suppose like the fertile Nile land. Aset, a lighter blue. Ra, red and brown. Now I don't know much about these deities, so the associations are just based on my vague feelings when thinking about the deities. Why do you associate brown with Ra? Just curious since that's not one that would come to my mind. Quote: Edit: Also, I will move this to the deities subforum. Sorry sweatdrop Didn't think about putting it there.
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 10:46 pm
I edited my original post to expand a little wink But also with Odin, grey for the colour of his beard, and grey for winter clouds. X-Yami-no-Ko-X Why do you associate brown with Ra? Just curious since that's not one that would come to my mind. No idea. Maybe it's something to do with things being burnt or coloured by the sun? Or whatever? I don't know. Quote: Sorry sweatdrop Didn't think about putting it there. Np! biggrin It's easy enough to move things.
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 10:58 pm
I don't see anything wrong with what you've told being UPG. I was curious what people thought a certain deity's color(s) would be if it's not stated else where or have been found yet. Sanguina Cruenta No idea. Maybe it's something to do with things being burnt or coloured by the sun? Or whatever? I don't know. I've actually never thought about that. I can see how that would fit Him now.
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 11:15 pm
Well, I think some things are more fixed than others. There are reasons for some associations. But for me, I tend to draw colour associations with deities mostly from UPG. I've often found that they match up with those other people draw, but they aren't going to necessarily.
Sometimes I have reasons for the associations I draw, but not always ones I can put my finger on. I don't know why I associate Aset with blue, or Set with dark blue, or Heimdallr with brown.
More!
Ares: orange, black, and red
Aphrodite: pink, pale yellow, gold
Athena: white and blue
Poseidon: dark green, lots of different blues
Artemis: green, pale blue, pale brown
Apollo: gold, bronze
Hades: black
Persephone: dark brown, aubergine, pink
Demeter: Green, yellow
Hermes: white
I don't even think the ancient Greeks were that concerned with colour as a way of describing appearance... were they more concerned with brightness, or darkness, or something? Apparently they didn't even have a word for "blue", but I'm not really sure about that one. I saw it on QI ages ago and they were wrong about Welsh not having a word for blue, so...
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 11:41 pm
I don't know how accurate my correspondence list is but could Aset be blue because in a way She had to protect Asar's dead body from Set and after she had Heru had to protect Him from chaos creatures until He was able to defend Himself?
And for Set could it be that most people see Him as "evil" because He murdered Asar?
Blue=protection
Dark blue=confusion
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:10 am
I'm not familiar with those particular associations myself, so I wouldn't draw those conclusions whee
Is it true that Set is more associated with chaos and sort of lawlessness, like unfettered nature, the desert wastes, than he is with evil in particular? I've heard him referred to as a "mad god", but I don't know how valid that is.
Maybe it's loneliness. I have this mental image of him way out there, away from everyone else.
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:35 am
People do associate Set with chaos which is why I put evil in quotes cuz to people most would see chaos and think evil.
I, myself, do not see Set that way. I think He is one that is misunderstood and I see Him as change. When I think of Set I do think of Him as being lonely since He's been associated with the desert and desert storms so in my mind I see Him as sort of shunned or exiled by the others. In the story of Asar's death some versions say the Nebet Het, who was Set's (un)willing wife, had a son with Asar(Anpu) and that was part of what prompted Set's rage. Through Asar's death He became god of the dead. I've also seen Asar's death equated to the havest since Asar was also the god of crop fertility.
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:42 am
All very interesting! Thank you!
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:50 am
You're welcome ^.^
I might just add that to my thread on Kemeticism.
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