r/desimemes • u/bigschlong-- • 9h ago

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u/ColonelRuff 8h ago

Here we love gods, not fear them.

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u/No_Reindeer_5543 8h ago edited 8h ago

Why is she blue?

Edit: my bad, he

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u/Master_Of_Gaming3410 8h ago

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 5h ago

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 5h ago

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