Ancient Color Correspondences
Color correspondences have been used since ancient times.
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Roman Purple Amethyst Omen Seal 100's BCE
Roman Purple Amethyst Omen Seal 100's BCE
(January 12, 2025) This seal, meant to be placed in a ring for use in placing an identifying seal on a scroll, is made from purple amethyst which has always been the color of magic (spiritual focus). The top shows the sky-dome probably representing the night sky in this case. The bottom crescent seems to represent the dark under-dome and the home of the fate goddess Kate/Hekate. The swords indicate death. Its date is inferred from its artistic style.
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Translation of Purple Amethyst Omen Sealing
Translation of Purple Amethyst Omen Sealing
(January 12, 2026) Pressing the purple seal into clay produces this image. The letters are Latin as is the writing direction. Yet these letters do not form any known Latin abbreviation. Therefore, the text is most likely Druid Akkadian which would have been seen by the Romans as the language of magic. The inscription then is:
Tu Ya
LeYu
which means in English
Don't do astrology-magic
for fate.
Comment: In runic texts, astrology magic was used to shift fate. The goddesses of fate was Kate/Hekate who represented the underworld where souls resided until reincarnated. She was thus the goddess of life and death.
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Talk by Dr Petros Chatzimpaloglou from Wednesday 9 December 2020. This is Lecture III of 2020-2021 presented by The Archaeological Society Malta and Department of Classics & Archaeology, University of Malta series of public lectures.
(January 3, 2025) The red tool chips at the top came from somewhere off the island of Malta. The black tool chips came from Sicily.
Ancient Malta Traded for Black and Red Chert Before the Trade in Bronze Developed
Ancient Malta Traded for Black and Red Chert Before the Trade in Bronze Developed
(January 3, 2025) Some great detective work traced the sources of some red and black stone chips left over from tool making to Sicily and to somewhere further afield. The main point here is that the Neolithic Maltese islanders would spend above average levels of wealth to bring in simple colored stones. The only reason for this is that the colors themselves were important. Such trade proceeded the trade for metals during the Bronze Age.
Red represented the life powers while black represented fate.
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