Colour Symbolism
From Prehistory to Modern Aesthetics, Psychology & Transformation. A richly illustrated exploration of colour as a universal language of myth, religion and human consciousness. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, Eastern philosophy and Jungian psychology, Colour Symbolism traces how colours have expressed life, death, fertility, power, spirituality and transformation across civilisations and throughout history.
Primordial Colour Archetypes
Discover the earliest symbolic language of colour through prehistoric cave art, ritual pigments and lunar mythology. The book explores the ancient triad of white, red and black as colours of birth, life, death and renewal
The Lunar Colour Trinity
Explore how cultures across the world associated the phases of the moon with colour: white for emergence and purity, red for vitality and passion, and black or blue for mystery, endings and regeneration. These archetypes shaped religion, ritual and art for millennia.
Ancient Colour Circles
Follow the evolution of symbolic systems linking colours with the zodiac, planets, seasons and natural cycles. From Heracleitus' processes of whitening, yellowing, reddening and blackening to alchemical transformations, colour became a map of cosmic order.
Gods, Cultures & Sacred Colours
Travel through the colour worlds of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, India, Tibet, Persia and Medieval Europe, where colours identified deities, virtues, cosmic forces and social status.
Colour, Emotion & Human Nature
Investigate how colours became symbols of psychological states and human drives: green for fertility and growth, red for passion and action, white for spirit and transcendence, black for reality and fate, and gold for illumination and wisdom.
Music, Chakras & Synaesthesia
Discover the relationships between colour, sound, planetary influences and the chakras, revealing ancient attempts to unify perception into a single symbolic language of consciousness.
Jungian Colour Psychology
Examine the transition from mythological symbolism to modern psychology, where colour becomes an expression of archetypes, personality structures and the unconscious mind.
Alchemy & Transformation
Follow the alchemical journey from blackness through whitening and reddening toward gold, where colour symbolises not chemistry alone but the transformation of human consciousness and individuation.
