This color board is mentioned in the Tibetan Book of the Dead and aligns with the Hebrew - Jewish - color board. - Tibetan and Hebrew/Bible as follows:.
- WHITE: Purity and innocence; victory. It is mentioned in the descriptions of the coats, mitres, bonnets, and breeches of priests.
- BLACK: Mourning, affliction, evil, and calamity. Also, indirectly, to beauty (hidden or inner). It is applied to robes of mourning, a clouded sky, and night.
- RED: Bloodshed. Red also described certain animals, wine, and the complexion (also energy and Life).
- PURPLE: Royalty, wealth, and luxury. Kings wore robes of this color. Because it was derived from a Mediterranean Sea shellfish, and each shellfish provided only a tiny drop, purple was very expensive (also rainbow because it has all colors within it like purple has darkness, red and blue and the shell sparkles with colors, dominated by reddish-blue).
- BLUE: Deity, the sky, and heaven. This color was used in the same way as purple, and was found in the loops of curtains, robes, lace, and fringe. It was also derived from a Mediterranean shellfish.
- SCARLET (or Crimson): War, valor, luxury, and sin. The Hebrew word denotes the worm or grub from which this dye was made. The Phoenicians excelled in the art of producing scarlet dye.
- GREEN: Life, youth, abundance. Rarely associated with fabric, except for the trim on priests' robes (also connotes healthiness - the most powerful vegetables are green and dark green).
- GOLD: Wealth, money. Gold is both a color and a metal, and as a color was used as a trim or decoration (also denotes purity of refinements).
- SILVER: Money. Also both a color and a metal. Used to convey the sense of lesser wealth. Used as a trim color (also denotes purity of refinements)
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