Blonde Hair
What is the meaning of blonde hair and why is it so desirable All Over The World?
BLOND
Myth and History
By
Tala Bar
When talking about blond hair, a few questions rise in mind. What is the reason for such broad admiration for blond hair? Why do "men prefer blonds? Why do dark-haired women from the Mediterranean continuous bleaching their hair, and why do people of African descent yellow dye their hair black?
The answer to these questions in the distant past, but it is unnecessarily complicated, it is in the general worship of gold. Gold is the symbol of the sun and the marks awarded to the basic features Sun as a deity: power, strength and durability. But the symbolism of gold is not only physically but also mentally. Like the sun, it stands for, gold shines by itself with a continuous light, not dark and not pollute. This attribute is considered not only physically but also mentally, referring to it as the qualities of purity, wisdom, nobility, respect, divinity, enlightenment, and eternity.
It is clear that no place on earth where the sun is not worshiped in one way or another. The Bible speaks Sun of the character and interest in a few places. The prophet Malachi says, "The Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings …" (ch. 4, 2), and the Psalms is said, "For the Lord God is a sun and a shield …" (ch. 84, 12). A common sense in modern Hebrew says: "Clear as the Sun ", an expression of the fact that the sun acts in the light of day and has nothing to hide. The Scandinavian sun god Balder's called" The Eye of the Sky " and when he is slain by Hodder, the god of darkness and hell, a long period of dark winter made, if nothing grows until the sun is reborn. "Father Christmas, whose home is the North Pole, represents the young Sun during this festival, as can be seen by his red clothes (His white beard symbolizes snow, instead of that old age). In ancient Egypt, was developed strong sun worship, and either the Phoenicians or the Viking who had been brought to America (s. below).
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But what has this to do with golden hair? Many beliefs in human hair is considered a person to maintain physical and mental strength. Biblical Samson (Shimshon in Hebrew, whose name is connected with the Sun – Shemesh), called the "hero", lost his great strength when his head was shaved from his beautiful hair, just when it started to grow back, he was able to destroy an entire temple by cutting down its columns with his bare hands. The combination of golden hair, then, represents divine superiority, power and control.
The shades of gold may change the fairest blond hair to the darkest red, and despite the visible difference between them, they all symbolize the connection to the Sun as the supreme god, and mental functions attached to it. That is why, even in cultures where black and be considered beautiful brown hair, the lighter colors are thought to express special qualities. The Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl – the initiator of the Kon Tiki and the Ra voyages, from South America to Polynesia and North Africa to America – is called a myth, told one of the black-haired Native Americans say that the most prominent American cultures (Maya, Incas and Aztecs) were made by white, bearded people, these people, they say, came from an unknown place and disappeared into the Pacific Ocean, where they appeared in the form of giant red-headed sculptures of the Aku Aku Polynesian culture.
It is quite possible that the white, bearded men were descendants of the Vikings, who arrived in America in the eighth to tenth centuries, but they can be seafaring Phoenicians, who arrived in America a long time earlier from North Africa, making them parts of the Ancient Egyptian culture – like the pyramids, for example. Red-haired people are quite common among the peoples of the Mediterranean, which has a very mixed race, two of the most prominent Biblical references are from the King David and the Edomite Esau – Adom means "red" in Hebrew.
Originally, all people, has developed in Africa, have dark skin and hair, as can be seen in our closest relatives, chimpanzees, and as expected the warm weather of that area, the dark pigmentation acts as a protection against the heat. Only when people Gay sapiens left Africa and arrived in northern Europe, they could afford protection against the heat to see the conservation of energy needed to create dark pigmentation and developed means to protect against the cold in the form of body hair, long and bony physique, under heavy fur clothing. Scandinavia is the only place on earth where a white skin and hair ever developed.
Such fair skin and hair were probably developed of an albino mutation, known as the dark tribes of Africa, but while in Africa it is a disadvantage in Scandinavia its merits and distributed by the population, with straight hair and thick beard. The first settlement in northern Europe is said to have occurred towards the end of the last ice age, while the ice was beginning to the withdrawal of 12,000 for the present, at which time, the colonists Fri were isolated from the rest of the continent, thus developing into a pure blonde, hardy race. With the melting of the ice began from these people, seeking more territory to the food sufficiency. It may be assumed that their hardy body and mind, is used to rigors of the North, made them stronger than other breeds them on a clash between tribes to overcome fit. Such collisions or by violence (rape) or by mutual consent, the result of mixing and assimilation of the races, thus creating different shades of hair that appears in the entire European public: a fair, gold, carrot, chestnut and copper, the result of blond and brown mixed with black.
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Next Sun worshiping, many gods and heroes who were considered as in many places around the world with blond or golden hair, and since the Sun represents fertility, so also the figures symbolizing love as a sign of fertility. This is how the White Goddess Robert Graves presents in charge of fertility among the rest, in his book of that name: "The Goddess is a beautiful, slim woman with a hooked nose, pallid face, lips red as rowan-berries, surprisingly blue eyes and long blond hair … "(P. 24). This description is very close to the appearance of a Viking woman Although Graves fixes its origin in the Mediterranean, including dark-haired population. The love goddess Aphrodite is said to have descended from the sea in Cyprus, and according to many of the original paintings from ancient Greece, she would have had dark hair – if indeed they are often presented, Botticelli, but painted his famous picture of her with golden hair.
Similar to Aphrodite, the Celtic figure of "Niamah with the golden hair, whose name means" Sun Tear, her divine personality is expressed the story tells how the hero Oisin led her horse to the post-death "Island of Happiness". The dark or chestnut haired Celts also had a sun god Lugh, to act was described as golden hair, which shone in the sunlight. Like him, in a 14th cent. French Goblin, the figure of the Welsh King Arthur appears with golden hairs, while the Welsh are generally dark-haired, the whole picture is imbued with the golden atmosphere of the Sun Arthur was originally known as a military leader of the 5-6th century. And the medieval royal ambience takes it completely out of its original tribal property, which he instead for a reconciliation of Golden Regal divine environment, the Arthurian myths connect him with the dying and reviving god of the sun, and even the figure of Jesus as a symbol of the Sun It is well known that Jesus was consistently painted by Christian artists to have golden hair, Unlike its dull Mediterranean origin.
The Sun god could then be, male or female, in Semitic myths were both the Babylonian Shamash and the Canaanite god Shamash Shapash or goddess. An Indian village deity is the Sun story told of a Mexican goddess named Chalchuialico, who was fourth to Sun Goddess speak to her after the three disappeared, but before a sun goddess, she was a water goddess dressed in green, which had copper hair. For hundreds of years that Sun goddess of light and heat supplied while the women and men appeared on earth. But other gods jealous of her, and the God of Darkness (reminiscent of the Scandinavian Hodder), problems with her until she shed Tears for the earth and disappeared into the darkness. In the end, the gods decided to fifth sun, so for that purpose had to sacrifice, which would create the sun and the to Mon. The sacrifice to the sun goddess Nanna was the small (again, reminiscent of an old world connected to the Norse god Balder be). While the gods were burning their sacrifice, an eagle (one of the most prominent symbols of the sun) took her body from the fire in the form of a ball of fire, fixed it in the air when she was wrapped in her golden hair.
Many folktales numbers appear in golden hair, which have developed from the old myths, such a legendary woman was Isolde, Tristan's lover, not only famous of medieval poetry and a novel of the 19th century. French writer Joseph Bedier, but also from Wagner's Opera. The legend tells that when Mark, the king of Cornwall, saw golden hair Isolde in a bird's nest, he explained that he only would the owner of her marriage. When it became apparent that the hair belonged to Isolde, the Irish princess royal, Tristan was sent to her Mark to market, and the way she fell hopelessly in love. Isolde is a typical love goddess for whom the hero must die at the end.
It is also possible to blonde heroine In the Grimm Brothers' Fairy Tales find. One of these heroines was Rapunzel, who said to have had "a beautiful long hair, fine as spun gold, another is The goose girl, whose flowing locks "were all of pure silver." Folktales in turn have developed in modern fiction, and another woman with divine Irene's golden hair, heroine of Galsworthy The Forsyte Saga. She is described by the author as looking like a pagan goddess, whose character expresses that the Goddess of Love.
The literature to real life, the next type of love goddess found among the goddesses of our time, which movie stars. Some of them are known to have dyed their hair blond, this understanding to enhance them, and such a modern goddess Love, Madonna, who is not even pretty, but is distinguished by her blond hair. A better argument for the title, However, Marilyn Monroe, who became famous for her movie men prefer Blonds. Monroe certainly had the appearance of a love goddess, with its original dark hair dyed blond, beautiful hair curvaceous body, and the many stories about her relationships with men, which reinforces the illusion. The combination of her looks, her profession and her behavior, especially Marilyn Monroe made a pitch back to pagan times and Sun worship. It is no wonder then that many women like her, at least by becoming blond, but like to discard may also have implications for its dark-haired men, who prefer to extend their outer persona in this way to improve.
Links:
http://homepages.ius.edu/mcreceli/mythology.htm – Sun mythology
http://www.babynamesofireland.com/pages/niamh-oisin.html – Niamah with the golden hair
http://www.paleothea.com/Gallery/VenusSea.html – Botticelli's Venus / Aphrodite
http://www.racialcompact.com/nordishrace.html – History of the Nordic race
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/arthur.html – The remains King Arthur
http://www.masihiat.com/UL/Albums/Pictures/Pic2637.jpg – Jesus in the synagogue
http://www.marilynmonroe.com/about/photos/color_photos.htm – Marilyn Monroe
About the Author
My name is Tala Bar and I live in Israel. I hold an M.Phil. degree in literature from the London University. I taught Hebrew and English languages and literature before I turned a full time writer. I have had a number of books, stories and articles published in print and on the Net, both in Hebrew and English.
How do I keep my hair blonde in the winter?
I have blonde hair and I hear when you are blonde hair and bleach it, it can make you hair fall out. My hair is almost white in the summer but in winter the color fades and it turns yellow just normal. I do not want to bleach my hair, but is there a shampoo or something I could in my hair lighter it up?
Chamomile tea leaves in your hair sit for 10 minutes then wash with warm water. Do this twice a week or until the desired color
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