So in other words, god is either a blue-blood (ties in perfectly with Jesus being of royal descent) or has gold-blood (
Ichor, the blood of the Greek gods).
Idolatry all around.
. . . I have something to say about your last sentence, concerning "idolatry," but want to say something about "
ichor" first.
Iliad V. 339–342[2]
Blood follow'd, but immortal; ichor pure,
Such as the blest inhabitants of heav'n
May bleed, nectareous;
The concept of "blue blood" (royalty) comes from another of the multifarious Masoretes' malfeasant interpretations of scripture. Because the sky, heaven, is blue, the pagan religions fancied "blue" symbolic of the gods, or God: and thus divine royalty. Which is to say, for the pagans, the gradations of holiness so far as colors go stops at blue on the far end of the holiness scale. Crimson, as symbolic of the blood of mere mortals, is on the opposite scale so far as the gradation of holiness is concerned.
Ditto for metals. Gold is on the divine side of the holiness scale, while copper is on the opposite (profane) scale from gold. . . And make no mistake:
shatnez is fundamentally about not mixing gold and copper in a divine emblem, nor blue and crimson, since opposites shant be mixed in the natural religions of the ancient pagans.
Moses knew better than the pagans. So when he manufactured "
ichor" from the Israelites' golden god, the virgin born son of the
parah adumah, he developed the first instance of what later became known as Tyrian Purple. How ironic then that
techelet-purple allows the transgressing of the law of
shatnez.
It turns out that "purple" and not "blue" is the true color of divine royalty.
Which segues in to your statement about idolatry in the most vertiginous way since idolatry is about worshiping a molten god, a god of pure gold, and not about worshiping a God who on the contrary is not a blue-blooded lord, but a purple-blooded Lord of lords.
Which is to say that it literally causes theological vertigo to realize that the Masoretes who would leave god alone, pure, golden, blue-blooded, as their highest service to God, are protecting a molten god of blue and gold when instead they should listen more precisely to Moses; they should pay attention to Moses and not their own sacerdotal waywardness.
Moses took the molten god, the golden god, and ground it up and mixed it with the metal on the opposite side of the sanctity scale, the profane metal, copper:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (the
MET) states that the Egyptians knew how to use a "
chemical reduction of a finely ground copper-mineral powder" to locally lower the melting point of adjacent gold surfaces. Moses was educated in the manufacture of nanotechnology necessary to create dyes that used gold, colloidal-gold, to dye fabrics in precisely the hues the scripture claims were used in the fabrics associated with the sacerdotal duties of the priests.
Techelet.
Moses mixed the golden god, the idolatrous lord lording his golden glory over the profane world (he ground up the molten god) and mixed it with the most profane metal, copper. He then burned the metals to produce the nano particles of gold ash which when mixed with water became one of the two elements in
techelet dye.
Ironically, the bluish hue of the gold water retained the idolatry of the ancient pagans who worshiped gold as the divine metal, and blue as the divine color.
But Moses knew better. He took the bluish hue, the colloidal gold, the idolatrous divine color (from the divine metal), and just as he mixed the sacred gold with profane copper, so too he mixed the sacred blue hue, the colloidal gold, with the crimson of living things to produce the first
waters of niddah, the first sanctifying brew that represents the spirit and life of the Living God, El Chay, rather than the idolatrous god of those pagans who would leave god lonely in the heavens as blue and alone and can be rather than believing he could mix with his creatures --no doubt profane ---without sacrificing more than he could gain.
Not only does Moses mix the sacred metal with the profane in the manufacture of the first
waters of niddah (gold and copper), but he then mixes the pre-holy water with crimson, the blood of living things, to create the true holy, royal, hue: purple.
Where the Masoretes worship gold, and blue, as divinity, and holy, Moses taught that whereas blue and crimson, are at two ends of the natural color scale, purple is not even a natural hue. Purple doesn't exist on the natural color scale. It is, like
techelet, a hue manufactured by mixing the two ends of the natural color scale, blue, and crimson, to produce an otherworldly hue: purple.
As disorienting as the foregoing might be, worshiping a god who is too holy for his creatures is the purest form of idolatry. The true God is a mixture of the sacred and the profane (profaning the law of shatnez set against such mixing), which is almost too ironic, in a discussion of
techelet as the blood of God, since
techelet, as a sacerdotal hue, and brew, allows the mixing of the two things in
shatnez which in the natural world, and the minds of natural religions, shant be mixed without producing idolatry of the highest order. The nature religions, to include modern Judaism, fancy themselves too holy to drink down a good chalice of
techelet as commanded in John chapter six where God says you must drink
techelet, the blood of God, if you're to enter into the Kingdom of God.
. . . Which segues into a theological mystery almost akin to the mysterious Jewish belief that the nature of
techelet is still a mystery (it's not), i.e., the mystery of
The Baffling Bloody Ban on Jews drinking
techelet as the source of salvation and entry into the Kingdom of God right along with their brothers who've been guzzling the stuff down now for going on nearly two millennia: the ichorist, or eucharist, depending on one's semantic taste.
John
