Theos-Talk Archives (November 1999 Message tl00038)

Woe! Woe!  It is getting so that we demons just don't know WHAT to wear
any more.

Curse the Internet, we say!  (Depending on the moon's phases).

----- Original Message -----
> From: <Hazarapet@aol.com>
> Date: Thursday, November 04, 1999 1:49 PM
> Subject: Re: theos-l digest: November 03, 1999

> In a message dated 11/4/99 12:32:14 AM Central Standard Time,
> kymsmith@micron.net writes:
>
> > First of all, the people you name above are not what the general
public
> >  consideres action "heroes" in films.
>
> And who is the general public?  Is your definition of general public
such that
> only those who watch American films are considered the general public?
If so,
> how very ethnocentric.
>
> In Taoism, the
> demons are white or yellow and the powerful immortals or gods are a
very
> bright fire
> engine red or dark redish brown (like a glowing coal).  In west
Africa, demons
> are white and gods are black.  In eastern Africa,
> Ethiopian/Somalia/Kenya/Sudan,
> ghosts/demons are white and gods/heroes are black or almost a glowing
> krishna blue.  In south India, most depictions of demonic asuras have
> them white while the gods are blue/black.  In the northern Vaisnavite
cult,
> the god and hero, and the avatar Krsna, is black or dark blue
(although
> Krsna means black) while the demons and Rakshasas are pale white.
> And in Indian movies, that is how good guys and bad guys are depicted.
>
> In Armenia, Georgia, and some isolated parts of the Caucasus where
> one can still find the pre-Zoroastrian and pre-Christian Ossets,
demons
> were a sickly pale grey or white and gods/heroes were red or green or
> golden.  And the demons of Iran, Zoroastrian or Muslim, are all sorts
> of colors, whereas jinas are black or blue and ambivalently neutral,
> while the forces of good are golden or emerald green.  Emerald Green
> is the light of Kibr, the column of light from God on down to new
> initiates of Naqshibandhi Sufism, the color of the seven keshvar
holders
> of the world's spiritual cardinal points, and the color of those one
> by blood or spirit with Mohammed

> Grigor