
Blue
Blue
Egyptian Blue: one of the earliest if not the first known synthetic pigment, a bright blue, was made by the Egyptians with a mixture of copper, sand and natron.
♀ – The symbol for Venus, the goddess of love and beauty and for her planet is thought to be a stylized mirror.
Copper was used to make early mirrors, and is thus associated with beauty and Venus.
It was also used in alchemy as the symbol for copper.
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Many languages do not have a separate term for blue and green.
For instance, the ancient Egyptian word wedjat means blue and green. It is also the name for the well-known Eye of the Moon, which later became the Eye of Horus and the Eye of Ra.