We are mostly used to what we see today as variations in the colours of people’s skin, and the different tones and shades. But could there have been A Time Before, when things were different, light was different and the atmosphere was not as it is now. Where perhaps there was a different shade for all, or just some. And even now we think we see the same thing when we look at something, yet as explained in Seeing Colours – perhaps we are not, especially when it comes to colour.
There has even been talk in the past green skinned folk as mentioned in Appearing From Nowhere, so is it such a stretch to maybe consider that there could have been a blue time? We are known as the ‘Blue Planet’ after all, maybe it wasn’t originally called so because of the water. And when we are sad or don’t get enough sunlight, they say we ‘feel blue’, which is probably just a saying and really is because blue is considered a cold colour mostly, so much seem appropriate for low mood or feelings.
Blue Bloods – apparently used to refer to someone of royal lineage, to separate them from the ordinary people and used for a system of hierarchy. But if you go down the route of giving it thought from a weird and unusual viewpoint, could it be that there was blue bloods, and we are the red bloods. And where we have purple being used in royalty to show they are special, could that be symbolism like everything else these days? Showing that the genetic mix of what used to be is still here? I guess that might be a follow up thought to A Trail of Blood, where I speculated about it being coveted for various reasons.
Blue Gods – Amun, the Egyptian god. Vishnu, one of the Hindu gods, the preserver and protector, but shown as always having blue skin. As does Shiva they say. They could just be tales, where there is a need to visually separate something from how you look if you are going to hold it in higher regard to yourself. Myths, Monsters & Legends often form and remain for all sorts of reasons, but the idea that they started from a real place, person, event or time, should not be overlooked or dismissed without thought.
Avatar – that fictional film, where the inhabitants of Pandora are blue. I also wonder if the naming of the world was significant too, and a little bit of Show and Tell going on. That if people knew what used to be, or what we are, then it would open a Pandora’s Box.
Morlocks – those lurking subterranean creatures in The Time Machine (film and book), with pale bluey green skin from their time below ground. And I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that the word Morlock is awfully close to Moloch. An ancient deity associated with child sacrifice. Not similar at all to the brainwashing and MK Ultra techniques used against the Eloi, so that when the siren sounded, they were powerless to resist or understand what was happening. Instead, just slowly walking towards their underground sacrifice, until someone else came along and broke the spell. But until that point, we are led to believe that system had been perfected over the millennia so that there was no trace of what we would call normal humanity or a drive to survive left. That it would take time travel to save them from that repetitive and grisly fate. Let’s hope that somewhere, in some time someone is gearing up a phone box, or a DeLorean, because if the tales of current times are to be believed, then we are already on our own grisly slippery slope…
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