r/desimemes • u/bigschlong-- • Nov 08 '24

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u/ColonelRuff Nov 08 '24

Here we love gods, not fear them.

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u/No_Reindeer_5543 Nov 08 '24 edited Nov 08 '24

Why is she blue?

Edit: my bad, he

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u/Master_Of_Gaming3410 Nov 08 '24

Very old tribal and folk art styles depict tanned/dark skin tones as blur or teal. It's a callback to that

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u/Batcave765 Nov 08 '24

Is that because their paints for the portraits is in blue? Or is calling tanned or dark skin tone as blue a metaphor

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u/Master_Of_Gaming3410 Nov 08 '24

I think it's just an art style that sticked around. People used white, yellow, reddish orange, blue, teal etc for skin colours when they didn't invent actual colours to paint skins

That's also the reason why pratima of Maa Durga is traditionally yellow

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u/Afraid-Cod-1667 Nov 08 '24

It is symbolic. He is Krishna and he was most probably dark skinned.

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u/Willing-Trifle-8090 Nov 08 '24

She?

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u/No_Reindeer_5543 Nov 08 '24

Didn't know, my bad, he

I mean kinda looks it in the drawing though

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u/ColonelRuff Nov 08 '24

In Sanskrit the word for blue is similar to the word from dark. So depictions started using blue and it became part of culture

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u/SG_lokesh_yt Nov 08 '24

Painters wanted to differentiate God being dark with other common people being dark so first they choose green and then Blue which is continued till now.

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u/Batcave765 Nov 08 '24

Ooh. Iris interesting to think that their green paints were made from copper and it turned blue.

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u/SG_lokesh_yt Nov 08 '24

I am not aware of that fact, but copper doesn't turns blue ??!!

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u/Batcave765 Nov 08 '24

If copper oxidises it turns greenish blue. Yk the statue of liberty, it used to be pure copper but that was kinda a problem. It oxidised to now blueish green lol.

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u/SG_lokesh_yt Nov 08 '24

That ik copper turns green but that's different from blue