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The Purple

• The Purple
  • Sources
    • Dioscoredes
    • Mary Purple fingers
    • Anointing of the eyes
    • Lydia the Purple Merchant was friends with Paul the apostle
  • Videos
    • Setting the Archaeo-Chemical Record Straight Regarding Tyrian Purple Pigments and Dyes
    • Why Tyrian Purple Dye is So Expensive | So Expensive
    • I bought the worlds most expensive color
  • Relevant Articles
  • A Hypothesis (journalistic commentary)

Among the ancients, few colors bore the weight of sanctity like purple—a hue reserved for kings, gods, and the priesthood. Its source, the rotting glandular secretion of sea snails, required days of fermentation, exposure to the sun, and an alchemical expertise plus patience.

Sources

Dioscoredes

"Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazerbei De Materia Medica Libri Quinque," an 1829 edition that includes the Greek text [ Perseus Scaife ]

Dioscorides "De Materia Medica", sections 2.3-2.8 talks about the sea mollusks and what they're used for. One word to describe them is "caustic". A translation of the Greek text yields that the porphura is desiccating. Like swimming in a pool of chlorine too long, you'll get chemically burned, or irritate the skin. It is low key corrosive. People used it to dissolve sarcoma (possibly skin cancer, maybe skin tags) and help scars disappear. You can use it on your teeth because it chemically cleans them. 

This could explain what the mythologies and ancient texts allude to when they talk about "burning off mortality". 

By day, Thetis christed Achilles with Ambrosia, and by night, burned him in a fire. Demeter burned a kid in the fire too, to make him a god. In both instances the process was halted in the middle of its completion, and thus stopping the process of making a god. 

Is the "burning purple" burning on its own? Yes absolutely. Does the additional things added along with it, to "christ" someone causing a burning sensation internally? That could also be true. We're dealing with snake and scorpion venoms as well here.

Mary Purple fingers

See Mary Purple Fingers

• Mentioned in the infancy gospel of James (but… is it a dye or a drug?  Additive?)

See also: Mary and Jesus up the Mountain

Anointing of the eyes

• Revelation 3:18 "anoint your eyes with eye salve so that you might see."

Lydia the Purple Merchant was friends with Paul the apostle

• Lydia (Λυδία) knew Paul. Specifically a “dealer of the purple cloth” and an early convert of Paul. She was wealthy and influential. Not explicitly a prostitute, but the language could reveal more than we know. A dealer in porphyra, the extremely expensive purple dye or purple cloth made from murex shellfish. It was an elite luxury trade, closely associated with imperial or priestly status.

Videos

Some analysis

Setting the Archaeo-Chemical Record Straight Regarding Tyrian Purple Pigments and Dyes

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Why Tyrian Purple Dye is So Expensive | So Expensive

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I bought the worlds most expensive color

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Relevant Articles

See also:

• Christ - discusses generally Xriw which means to apply salve in a medicinal / visionary context. e.g. applying the purple salve.

A Hypothesis (journalistic commentary)

What's interesting is that Paul the apostle was friends with Lydia who was a purple merchant.... so it's possible that the purple industry was dark power (power behind the scenes). Motivated to produce it and provide it for spiritual use because the power was invaluable. First with the oracles, and then with the apostles... perhaps much like dark money behind any government.

They certainly had a very high-value product to accumulate wealth.

What if the purple industry realized that power based on purple wasn't scalable, so phased it out? If that hypothesis is true, then what about purple, made it so required? If not required, then maybe it was a streamlining, perhaps simply as the video says: to erase the old and replace with the new, merge that oracular power into governemnt, as one entity - power consolidation.