Red lends royalty to purple and majesty to orange, it lends love to roses and danger to road signs. It brings passion to a mind in love and rage to a mind in pain. Why have we given so much importance to one colour?
Why is the colour of our blood the colour of power too? Is there a subliminal connection between our modern day perception of the connotations of Red and what we saw as we evolved?
Long before we made Red the connoisseur of passion, love and danger; Red was perceived as the colour of magic. Civilisations painted everything from earns to weapons in red to ward of the effects of the evil. Red was used to drape kings of old and even biblical texts have Hebrews in ancient Egypt painting their doors in Red to ward off evil spirits. Ancient Greek texts have Red being portrayed as the only colour to symbolise the complete circle of both life and death. All this only reaffirms our modern day obsession with the revered colour as one which brings the circle of change to a conclusive start of all things.
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