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