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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] Now, for all the other posters who have brains... Here is the Robins quote in its entirety. "[i]..Male and female skin colors were probably not uniform among the entire population of Egypt, with pigmentation being darker in the south [closer to sub-saharan Africans] and lighter in the north [closer to Mediterranean Near Easterners] A woman from the south would probably have had darker skin than a man from the North. [b]Thus, the colorations used for skin tones in the art must have been schematic [or symbolic] rather than realistic[/b]; the clear gender distinction encoded in that scheme may have been based on elite ideals relating to male and female roles,in which women's responsibilities kept them indoors, so that they spent less time in the sun than men. [b]Nevertheless, the significance of the two colors may be even deeper, making some as yet unknown but fundamental difference between men and women in Egyptian worldview[/b]...[/i]"-- Egyptologist, Gay Robins I believe the very last part of the sentence to be true since as I've stated several times before there are various Afroasiatic speakers in Africa whose women paint their skin and faces with yellow ochre, particularly in certain occasions that are festive or auspicious. This custom is practiced by Saharan groups like the Tuareg as well as some Beja of the Eastern Desert and even certain ethnicities in the Horn. [IMG]http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l90o71yGPV1qc56tzo1_400.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.sjb.org/galleries/niger/images/IMG_6460.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.sjb.org/galleries/niger/images/IMG_6451.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lky8tcGEdg1qcptm2o1_500.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3554/3787864724_3100dd2812.jpg[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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