BLOND
Myth and History
By
Tala Bar
When hair blonde spoke up, one or two questions of the mind. What is the reason why so much admiration for hair blond? Why “Men prefer blondes?” Why pale women with black hair permanently from the Mediterranean her hair, and why the colored people of African descent, black hair is yellow?
The answer to these questions is in the distant past, but it is not too complicated, it is in the overall worship gold. Gold is the symbol of the sun, and marked the essential functions granted to the sun as a deity: power, strength and durability. But the symbolism of gold is not only physically but also mentally. As the sun shines, the gold itself with a steady light, not dark, not the cloud. This property was not only physically but also mentally, referring to him as to the qualities of purity, wisdom, nobility, respect, divinity, enlightenment and eternity.
It is clear that he loves no place on earth where the sun never been in one way or another. The Bible says the sun and the importance of character in some places. The prophet Malachi said: “The Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings …” (Chapter 4, 2), and in the Psalms, it says that “the Lord God is a sun and shield. .. “(Chapter 84, 12). A common word in modern Hebrew words: “clear as the sun,” with the expression of the fact that the sun never sets in the light of day has nothing to hide. The sun growing Scandinavian god Balder is called “The Eye of the Sky,” and if he is killed by Hodder, god of darkness and hell, a long dark period of the season is created, if nothing more until the sun is reborn. Father Christmas, whose home is the North Pole, the sun represents youth festival, as shown by his red clothes (his white beard, snow, but that age). Sun worship in ancient Egypt was highly developed, and either the Phoenicians or Vikings, who have brought to America (see below would have been).
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But what does this have to do with the golden hair? In many condemnations of human hair as physical and mental capacity of a person is taken. Biblical Samson (Shimshon in Hebrew, the name connected with the sun – Shemesh), and “hero” has lost its great power, if the head shaved, his hair was only when she began to grow, it could destroy a temple whole by reducing its columns bare hands. The combination of golden hair, then makes a divine superiority, power and control.
The color of gold of the most beautiful blond hair, the darkest red, change, and despite the apparent differences between them, they stand to connect with the sun as the supreme deity, and intellectual property affixed . Therefore, even in cultures that are in black hair and brown as beautiful, the colors are more brilliant thoughts to express special qualities. The Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl – the initiator of the Kon Tiki and Ra traveling from South America to Polynesia and Africa North America – is mentioned in a myth in the black hair Native Americans reported and stated that the crops most eminent of America (Mayas, Incas and Aztecs) were created by white-skinned, bearded, for these people, they say, comes from an unknown place and disappeared into the ocean Pacific, where they in the form of red giant sculptures of culture Aku Aku return of Polynesia.
It is quite possible that these white, bearded male descendants of the Vikings, who arrived in America in the eighth to tenth centuries, but they were Phoenician sailors came to America for a long time in North Africa, have thus with them pieces of former Egyptian Culture – such as the pyramids, for example. redheads are widespread among the peoples of the Mediterranean, which are a very mixed race, two of the most important references are biblical King David, and Esau, the Edomites – Adom means “red” in Hebrew.
Initially, all the people I have developed in Africa, had dark skin and hair, as you will see our closest relatives, chimpanzees, and how to be expected in warm conditions region, and dark pigmentation as protection against the heat works. Only when people, Homo sapiens left Africa and arrived in northern Europe, they could afford to forgo the protection against heat, conservation of energy to create needs pigmentation dark and develop ways to protect themselves against the cold in the form of hair, high and bony, under fur. Scandinavia is the only place on earth where light skin and hair, never developed countries.
The light skin and hair, was probably an albino mutation, which had been developed under the name of the tribes of darkest Africa, but while in Africa it is a disadvantage in Scandinavia has its merits and the spread in the population in collaboration with Straight hair and beard thick. The first settlement in the north of Europe is held toward the end of the last ice age, when ice began to retreat before the present 12,000, and the settlers were quite isolated from the mainland, and blonde so that the development of a pure, hardy breed. With the melting of the ice from these people on the move, looking for a larger area of the food there. Presumably, their bodies and minds rustic, is used to the rigors of the North, she has done more than other breeds and adapt to overcome between the tribes in each collision. Such collisions, either through violence (rape) or by mutual agreement of lead, which, mixed race and assimilation, whereby all possible shades of hair, which appear in the European population, fairgrounds, gold, carrots, copper and chestnut, the result of mixing black and golden brown.
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Following the Sun worship of many gods and heroes, it is in many places in the world and golden blond hair was examined, and the sun represents fertility, so the figures symbolizing the love as a sign of fecundity. It is, as Robert Graves The White Goddess of Fertility responsibility presented under the other, in his book of the same name: “The goddess is a beautiful slim woman with a hooked nose, his face pale, her lips red as the Rowan berries, amazing blue eyes and long blond hair … “(P. 24). This description is very close to the appearance of a woman, Viking, if Graves from the Mediterranean, including brown patch population. The love goddess Aphrodite is said to have ascended from the sea in Cyprus, and after many original paintings from ancient Greece, they had to have black hair – as indeed it is often presented, Botticelli painted, but his famous painting her golden hair.
As Aphrodite is the figure of Celtic “Niamah with golden hair, whose name means sun Tear,” “his divine personality in the history Oisin the hero leads his horse after death,” said the islands is a expression of happiness. “The dark brown hair or the Celts also called a sun god Lugh, who was described as having golden hair, shining in the sun. How does a 14 Century. French Goblin appears, the number of Welsh King Arthur , golden-haired, brown but the Welshman generally, the entire image is imbued with the golden atmosphere of the sun. Arthur was originally a military commander of the 5th and 6th century known. And ‘Royal medieval atmosphere is completely outside of his tribal origin, connecting to a combination of Golden Regal Environment and divine, the Arthurian myths him with death and revival of the sun god, and even with the figure of Jesus as a symbol of the sun. We know that Jesus has always been painted by artists such as Christian, with golden hair, unlike blunt his Mediterranean origin.
the Sun God, then, male or female, were in the anti-Semitic myths can both Babylonian god Shamash Shamash and the Canaanites Shapash or goddess. A history of India from the divine sun was a goddess named Chalchuialico Mexico, the sun goddess was fourth after the rule of three disappeared told him, but to a goddess of the sun, she wore a goddess water green, copper hair. For hundreds of years as Sun Goddess provide light and heat, while women and men appeared on the earth. But other gods envied, and the God of Darkness (which recalls the Scandinavian Hodder), it bothered until she shed tears at the earth and all that has disappeared in the darkness. Ultimately, the gods have decided to create a fifth sun, and to this end, they had a sacrifice to give birth to the sun and the moon. The sacrifice to the sun, was the little goddess Nanna (again, reminiscent of an old world of Norse god Balder with connected). Although the gods were burning their victim, an eagle (one of the most important symbols of the sun) took his body by fire as a fire ball firmly into the sky when she was wrapped in her hair gold.
Many numbers appear in golden-haired folk tales that have developed from ancient myths, a legendary woman, Isolde, Tristan lovers, famous not only of medieval poetry and a novel of the 19th Century. French author Joseph Bedier, but also of Wagner’s opera. Legend has it that if Mark saw the King of Cornwall, Isolde golden hair in a bird’s nest, he said he did not marry the owner of the hair. When it was found that the hair belonged to Isolde, the Irish king’s daughter was sent to Tristan to Mark to do, and how they fell in love. Isolde is a love goddess typical die for the hero to the end.
It is also possible to find blond heroines of the Brothers Grimm tale. One of these heroines is Rapunzel, who said, “long, beautiful hair, though gold has spun” another is the goose girl, whose flowing hair “were all made of pure silver. “Folk tales have to turn in modern fiction, and another divine woman with golden hair is Irene, the heroine of The Forsyte Saga Galsworthy. It is expressed by the author as a pagan goddess whose form describes the goddess of love.
From literature to real life, the guy next to the goddess of love, the movie stars are among the goddesses of our time. Some of them are well known for her dyed blonde hair, have to improve on this concept of them, and as a modern goddess of love is Madonna, who is not even beautiful, but is characterized by its blond hair. A better claim to the title, though, Marilyn Monroe, who prefer men famous for their film was Blond. Monroe certainly had the air of a goddess of love with his hair dyed blond home, her beautiful body bent, and many stories about her relationships with men, that the illusion increased. this combination of his looks, his profession and his behavior was Marilyn Monroe back to pagan times and sun worship. It is not surprising that many women do the same as being blond, at least from, but may also reflect such effects on people with dark hair who want to improve their exterior in this manner.
Links:
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http://www. babynamesofireland. com / pages / Niamh, Oisin. html - Niamah with the />
http://www. paleothea. com / gallery / VenusSea. html - Botticelli's Venus / Aphrodite
http://www. racialcompact. nordishrace com /. History html – the Nordic race
http://www. Pantheon. org / articles / a / Arthur. html – The remains of King />
http://www. masihiat. com/UL/Albums/Pictures/Pic2637. - Jesus in the synagogue jpg
http://www. marilynmonroe. com / about / photos / color_photos. htm – Marilyn Monroe
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P> My name is Tala Bar and I live in Israel. I have an M. Phil. Bachelor of Arts at the University of London. I taught Hebrew language and literature before becoming a writer full time. I had several books published stories and articles in print and web, both in Hebrew and English.
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