Is this like a specific painting you’re talking about? I thought you meant the generic idiom which exists in several languages
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Replying to @vgr @GirlNamedMarley
looks like the symbol might be Turkish in origin and *ward off* the evil eye... “A typical nazar is made of handmade glass featuring concentric circles or teardrop shapes in dark blue, white, light blue and black, occasionally with a yellow/gold edge” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazar_(amulet) …
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Replying to @vgr
Ohhhh I seee the mixup. From what I’ve known, people refer to them casually as an “evil eye”. For example, if I go to a store and ask for an evil eye bracelet, this is what they would show me. Though, I believe most people understand that it *wards off* the actual evil eye. 1/2
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Replying to @GirlNamedMarley
I suspect the blue is not symbolic of anything, just an artifact of a traditional middle-eastern glass staining technique or something.
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Replying to @vgr
That idea is far more logical than my initial thought. I see a blue/black/white pattern that I’ve only ever seen in an eye before, hence my idea.
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Replying to @GirlNamedMarley
I initially thought you were making some sort of obscure reference to the Toni Morrison book but couldn’t make sense of it. I’ve never seen that iconic image before.
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Replying to @GirlNamedMarley
To confuse you further, the Hindi version of the idiom, derived from the Persian, *does* have explicit colorist connotations. Trucks will often sport the bumper sticker slogan “buri nazar wale, tera muh kala” (“caster of evil eye, may your face turn dark”)
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Replying to @vgr
I’m not confusing, I’m following lol what do the colors mean to them?
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The blue icon thing is not used in India to my knowledge. There’s other iconography.
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Replying to @vgr
Ahhh I see. I want to learn the meaning from the designer
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Replying to @GirlNamedMarley
Good luck time traveling to 1500s Ottoman Empire or wherever it started
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