Re: Is that what is in the movie Brave Heart? Woad?
Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on February 16, 2000 at 17:22:52:
In Reply to: Is that what is in the movie Brave Heart? Woad? posted by Giselle on February 16, 2000 at 17:01:55:
In Braveheart, they would have used a movie cosmetic that imitates
woad .....
Woad is a botannical cousin of indigo. It doesn't make as dark a blue
stain as indigo ..... but they are very similar.
The Romans reported Brits with blue bod ornamentation. Body
ornamentation of all sorts (tattooing, hennaeing, harquus, kohl,
perfuming, pigment and plant based body paints) was the norm across
the ME and Europe until 500 BCE or so, when Greek rationalism and
reason gained predominance ..... and the Greeks and then the Romans
had the military and economic whallop to overturn the older belief
systems that included bodmod. The ancient Greeks and Romans really
had a low opinion of bodmod. Unfortunately (for those of us who like
fancying up) their world view of "mankind, made in the image of
God(s), is most beautiful in its natural state" still holds.
(The ancient Greek and Roman view also included the notion that women
were rather weak, silly, and irrational, fundamentally polluted, and
that their fondness for paints and perfumes were part of that
foolishness. Grrrrrr. Boooo. Hissss.)
- Re: Is that what is in the movie Brave Heart? Woad? sarah 12:20:37 2/10/01
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- Re: Is that what is in the movie Brave Heart? Woad? Giselle 05:30:13 2/17/00
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