Re: [tied] Color and Caste.

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 3664
Date: 2000-09-14

Mark O:
>Bright/light/shiney: white.
>Dark/unreflective: black.
>Row: red-yellow.
>Grue: blue-green.
>
>With garments, unless you have dyes, you have a very limited choice of
> >colors. The priest likely wore white wool or white linen -- 'white' >here
>probably being on the dingy side. Natural dyes tend to give you >browns and
>blacks. One ancient recipe for red dye is to to boil >European ivy sap in
>urine.

But why a distinction between "grue" and "dark"? Is there anything in IE
myth to suggest _four_ colours? Everything seems to point to three.

- gLeN

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