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"Hyacinth House" is a song written and performed by the Doors. It appears on the band's final album with frontman Jim Morrison , L.A. Woman (1971). Its lyrics were written by Morrison, while the music was composed by keyboardist Ray Manzarek .
The flower hyacinth that rose from Hyacinth's blood is said to have had a deep blue or purple hue and a sign resembling the inscription "AI" on its petals, a symbol of sorrow. [42] However, this flower has been identified with another plant, the larkspur, or an iris, or perhaps gladiolus italicus rather than what we today call hyacinth. [43]
Jacinth (/ ˈ dʒ æ s ɪ n θ /, [1] / ˈ dʒ eɪ s ɪ n θ /) [2] or hyacinth (/ ˈ h aɪ. ə s ɪ n θ /) [3] is a yellow-red to red-brown variety of zircon used as a gemstone. [ 4 ] In Exodus 28:19, one of the precious stones set into the hoshen (the breastplate worn by the High Priest of Israel ) is called, in Hebrew, leshem , which is ...
The colour of the blue flower hyacinth plant varies between 'mid-blue', [21] violet blue and bluish purple. Within this range can be found Persenche, which is an American color name (probably from French), for a hyacinth hue. [22] The colour analysis of Persenche is 73% ultramarine, 9% red and 18% white. [23]
Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive. In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings.
Segments were color-keyed scene by scene so the colors in a single shot would harmonize between preceding and following ones. [43] Before a segment's narrative pattern was complete, an overall color scheme was designed to the general mood of the music, and patterned to correspond with the development of the subject matter. [ 43 ]
In Greek mythology, Thamyris (Ancient Greek: Θάμυρις, Thámuris) was a Thracian singer. He is notable in Greek mythology for reportedly being a lover of Hyacinth and thus to have been the first male to have loved another male, [1] but when his songs failed to win his love from the god Apollo, he challenged the Nine Muses to a competition and lost.
The song tells the story of a little boy who on the first day of school started drawing pictures of flowers using many different colors.The teacher (sung by Chapin in a falsetto voice) is angry, so she tells him that he should not be coloring because it is not time for art, and in any case, the boy is coloring the flowers all wrong and that he should paint them red and green, "the way they ...