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| ======Blue (Color)====== | ======Blue (Color)====== | ||
| - | The color **blue** had strong significance throughout [[Mesoamerica]], | + | The color **blue** had strong significance throughout [[Mesoamerica]], |
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| + | =====Relation to the Directions===== | ||
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| + | Blue was also commonly assigned to a direction, depending on the culture. The [[Aztecs]] associated it with the [[South]], while the [[Maya]] associated it with a fifth direction, the [[Center]]. | ||
| =====Maya Blue===== | =====Maya Blue===== | ||
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| Maya blue is a bright, lightfast, non-fugitive pigment used in Maya art, as well as to paint sacrificial objects and people. When first excavated in 1904, a 14-foot thick deposit of blue pigment was found at the bottom of the Sacred Well at [[Chichen Itza]] for instance, from hundreds of years of sacrifices being deposited into the [[cenote]]. It was only very recently that scientists and researchers have been able to figure out how it was likely made: | Maya blue is a bright, lightfast, non-fugitive pigment used in Maya art, as well as to paint sacrificial objects and people. When first excavated in 1904, a 14-foot thick deposit of blue pigment was found at the bottom of the Sacred Well at [[Chichen Itza]] for instance, from hundreds of years of sacrifices being deposited into the [[cenote]]. It was only very recently that scientists and researchers have been able to figure out how it was likely made: | ||
| - | > The researchers analyzed a bowl from the cenote that was used to burn incense. The pottery contained traces of Maya Blue. Scientists have long puzzled over how the ancient people created such a vivid, durable, fade-resistant pigment. They knew it contained two substances — extract from the leaves of the indigo plant and a clay mineral called palygorskite. [...] | + | > Scientists have long puzzled over how the ancient people created such a vivid, durable, fade-resistant pigment. They knew it contained two substances — extract from the leaves of the indigo plant and a clay mineral called palygorskite. [...] |
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| > The copal incense may have been the binding agent that allowed the color to stay true for so long, Feinman said. | > The copal incense may have been the binding agent that allowed the color to stay true for so long, Feinman said. | ||
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| + | [[Copal]] is an incense sacred to the entire region. | ||