Hmmm... blue glass, blue uniforms, Prussian blue, blue eyes, blue suit, blue EU, blue NATO, blue army, blue book, blue gas lasers... blue beam... ah blue bloods!!
Yeah it makes a lot of sense when you join the dots...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_image_velocimetry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holography
In Egypt, blue was associated with the sky and with divinity. The Egyptian god Amun could make his skin blue so that he could fly, invisible, across the sky. Blue could also protect against evil; many people around the Mediterranean still wear a blue amulet,
representing the eye of God, to protect them from misfortune.
Blue glass was manufactured in Mesopotamia and Egypt as early as 2500 BC, using the same copper ingredients as Egyptian blue pigment. They also added cobalt, which produced a deeper blue, the same blue produced in the Middle Ages in the stained glass windows of the cathedrals of Saint-Denis and Chartres.
The Ishtar Gate of ancient Babylon (604–562 BC) was decorated with deep blue glazed bricks used as a background for pictures of lions, dragons and aurochs.
The ancient Greeks classified colours by whether they were light or dark, rather than by their hue. The Greek word for dark blue, kyaneos, could also mean dark green, violet, black or brown. The ancient Greek word for a light blue, glaukos, also could mean light green, grey, or yellow.
The Greeks imported indigo dye from India, calling it indikon. They used Egyptian blue in the wall paintings of Knossos, in Crete, (2100 BC). It was not one of the four primary colours for Greek painting described by Pliny the Elder (red, yellow, black and white), but nonetheless it was used as a background colour behind the friezes on Greek temples and to colour the beards of Greek statues.
The Romans also imported indigo dye, but blue was the colour of working class clothing; the nobles and rich wore white, black, red or violet. Blue was considered the colour of mourning. It was also considered the colour of barbarians; Julius Caesar reported that the Celts and Germans dyed their faces blue to frighten their enemies, and tinted their hair blue when they grew old.
Nonetheless, the Romans made extensive use of blue for decoration. According to Vitruvius, they made dark blue pigment from indigo, and imported Egyptian blue pigment. The walls of Roman villas in Pompeii had frescoes of brilliant blue skies, and blue pigments were found in the shops of colour merchants.
So it turns out that my Gran's blue-rinse hair was actually a subtle reference to her Celtic past, nice one Gran!
To quote LoneBear from Antiquatis.org:
When you read about these "gods," just interpret it in human terms--humans just followed the patterns the gods placed before them, so their behaviors are actually very easy to understand.
It also ties in with my own genetics, since the very top of my MacDonald family tree has King Robert the Bruce and King Robert II and my family has a lot of blue eyes and blonde hair, although my siblings and I started off blonde and go darker as we get older. What i've learned about myself also matches a more saurian DNA mix for me so you've made a good connection there, not forgetting the whole Aryan (Noble in Sanskrit) race ideology thing too of course....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_race
My line of MacDonalds on Arran were in the domain of Donald of Islay (Donald Lord of the Isles d.1422) and my own family tree, going back to the 1700's, is full of John, Alexander, Donald, James and Ranald too, surely no coincidence:
I've only got about 200 years of a gap to join up to be certain...
Typical... i'd rather have more Neanderthal DNA!