For today's Sunday Selections,
a blog hop party of photography challenges
hosted by River of Drifting Through Life --
I'm fulfilling the Colour of the Month prompt
provided by Charlotte of MotherOwl's Musings.
This month's colour is Sea Green.
Well, I turned my place upside down,
but I could only find ONE item
with this distinctive shade of green --
1. Green Tara
The Tibetan Buddhist bodhisattva Tara is an
ancient deity of compassion, healing and regeneration.
Tara ("Star") manifests herself in 21 forms,
each of which is a different colour.
In the 21st century, Green Tara has become a powerful symbol
of environmentalist concern and activism for the Earth
because of her colour, which has brought her widespread
new recognition and popularity.
My Green Tara is a small, meticulously hand-painted
canvas mask from Tibet. She is richly adorned in
an elaborate headdress, necklace and earrings.
Like all bodhisattvas and buddhas, her earlobes are
extremely elongated as evidence of her
innumerable reincarnations in this world.
I got my Green Tara about 20 years ago in
an Edmonton spirituality store.
[Photo © Debra She Who Seeks, 2023]
5 comments:
...and as a horticultural aside, there is Sea Green Juniper! I thought that we would want to know.
That is a great color for April. But of course, I am partial to green. :) Happy Sunday.
Green Tara is an excellent sample for the theme Sea Gteen💚 It fits also well to healing and regeneration👍🏼🌲
Hello Debra, It seems that this month's color is kind of a trap. It turns out that "sea green" has been used to describe virtually every shade of green:
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/sea-green-color-palette-greens-guide-2497442167?
Looking around my apartment, I found some drinking glasses and of course book spines, and also a little green glass rabbit, left over from Rabbit Year, that I put out in celebration of Spring.
--Jim
@ Parnassus (Jim) -- Thanks for the link. I guess it's a testament to the infinite complexity of the colour of the sea.
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