March 13, 2021
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 Blue symbolism of the color blue .

Blue is one of the three primary colours of pigments in painting and traditional colour theory, as well as in the RGB colour model. It lies between violet and green on the spectrum of visible light. The eye perceives blue when observing light with a dominant wavelength between approximately 450 and 495 nanometres.

Blue symbolizes Infinity, eternity, truth, devotion, faith, purity, chastity, peace, spiritual, and intellectual life . It is the color of the ocean and the sky; it often symbolizes serenity, stability, inspiration,wisdom or health. It can be a calming color, and symbolize reliability.

cultures associations that appear in many ancient cultures and expressed a general feeling that blue, the color of the Sky, is the coolest most attached and least material of all hues.

 

The Virgin Mary and Christ are often shown wearing blue and it is the attribute of many Sky gods including Amun of  kemitic beliefs,   the Sumerian great mother,  the Greek Zeus and Hera,  the Hindu gods Indra and Vishnu and Vishnu’s blue skinned incarnation Krishna.

 

Blue is linked to mercy in Hebrew tradition and to wisdom in Buddhism .

 

 In folk tradition it stands in Europe for Fidelity in parts of China for scholarship and happy marriage and more recently the term Blues means melancholy or sad.

 

Hues of blue include indigo and ultramarine, closer to violet; pure blue, without any mixture of other colours; Cyan, which is midway in the spectrum between blue and green, and the other blue-greens turquoise, teal, and aquamarine.

 

Blue also varies in shade or tint; darker shades of blue contain black or grey, while lighter tints contain white. Darker shades of blue include ultramarine, cobalt blue, navy blue, and Prussian blue; while lighter tints include sky blue, azure, and Egyptian blue.

 

In Kemet blue was associated with the sky and with divinity. The Kemetic god Amun could make his skin blue so that he could fly, invisible, across the sky. Blue could also protect against evil; many people around the Mediterranean still wear a blue amulet, representing the eye of God, to protect them from misfortune.