CHESMAYNE

Midi: Bkforest

 

 

 

Black

01 Chess: the :B MPs/mps (dark pieces).   French: les noirs.   German: schwarz.   Italian: nero.   Spanish: negras.   ‘Advocate’ (:A) and ‘Accuser’ (:B).  

02 It is said that Vishnu took two of his own hairs, a black one and a white one and created Krishna out of the black hair, and Balarama out of the white one. 

         

03 Kala (India) means ‘black’ as a name for Shiva (god of death, time and ruin). 

04 Syama (India): ‘Black’ (a name given to Shiva/Kala - the god of carbonized corpses).  

05 Hel: the goddess who rules the underworld.    She is half black and half white.  

06 ‘Black is beautiful’, (slogan of American civil rights campaigners).

   

The piano has 88 keys, ebony and ivory. 

07 Cultural meanings of black: the oldest association of black is with death and grief, the colour worn by mourners – the colour, that having no colour, effaced and takes one’s self away.    Black is seen as a negative quantity – the absence of colour, but considered as a colour – a sign of denial and loss.    Impressive, intense, inwardness.  Worn by widows and nuns.   

 

 

 

 

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