Blue, the creator of civilisation: a Spiral Dynamics picture book

First published: 4 February 2011

Welcome to this little Spiral Dynamics picture book.

I went round the British Museum in London last month and saw how Blue developed over thousands of years by looking at artefacts from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome.

In summary, the thing that hit me was that I could see the growth of Blue. I could see the increasing focus on the Blue factor of sacrificing for the future. 

The more Blue developed sculptures clearly took more time to carve the more recent the culture they came from.


Like any other picture book there is text for each picture. You'll find the text as the capture for each picture.

Enjoy.

In Mesopotamia the carving of stone is very shallow. Even the largest statues are something like 15 feet long, 12 foot high and yet only 3 foot wide, and there are very shallow marks carved into the stone.


This work also involved much more work than what had be done before, stone takes longer to carve than wood. Elaborate wood carving occurs earlier in civilisation, though much less wood has survived from these times.

By the time civilisation had developed in Egypt, Blue had developed further and the carvings in statues was deeper, the statues were also more 3D rather than just 2D with depth.

By the time civilisation had developed in Greece, Blue had developed even further, the carving work was much more ornate. The statue is fully 3D again. Also the attention to detail and the amount of detail is vastly higher than in what had gone before. However, although there is much more detail, the sculpture is also close to a cylinder with lots of shallow detail.

By the time Rome had developed we have a near Da Vinci-esque life-like quality of marble carving work. The work is 3D and has a much more intricate shape that took much more work, there is much more depth and carving work going on here compared with a nearly cylindrical shape. There is also much more detailed work in the hair, the feet and the surface of the flesh, compared with just carved lines of fabric creases.