>Graham WM. worte:
>What about a formalised 'mystic language of colours'? Would
>Dante, connected by some with Alrchemy and Christian (and
>not so Christian) mysticism have had access to a textbook
>of colour symbolism, with meanings fixed by convention?
>
Graham:
Caveat lector: Just speculating! As to the possible sources
of "codification" for colours or colour symbolism,many of the
Onomastica Sacra attached to Medieval Bibles fill by a kind of
reverse analogical "etymology" certain colours with rather specific
associations. These could feed into a commonly accepted convention or
related set of conventions.
Likewise, the Late Antique and Medieval "dream-books" (
Oneirocritica), Greek, Arabic and Latin( particularly popular in
Italy), often contain quite specific colour decodings. These too
could feed into fixing of meanings.
> Josef Gulka
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