Majestic Horus Forest

Latin māiestātis, majesty — adjectival suffix -ic. As a color modifier, majestic implies a saturated-and-imposing-grandeur quality, the deep-rich color of Salisbury-Cathedral-and-Chartres-Cathedral Gothic-architecture monumental presence against the open sky. Sits at the bold-and-imposing end of the grid, parallel to regal and imperial.

Egyptian Heru, falcon-headed-sky-god. As a color modifier, horus implies a falcon-headed-and-Eye-of-Horus quality, the visual register of Egyptian-Horus-and-Edfu-temple hand-falcon-headed-and-Eye-of-Horus Egyptian-Horus-and-Edfu-temple-and-falcon-pharaoh horus-and-falcon-headed-and-Eye-of-Horus surfaces under Egyptian-Horus-and-Edfu-temple-and-falcon-pharaoh Edfu-Aswan-temple-and-falcon-throne falcon-eye-light. Sits at the modifier-and-myth end of the grid, parallel to isis and thoth in usage.

The dense canopy of a temperate or tropical woodland — oak, beech, pine, eucalyptus, mahogany — wherever leaves close above to filter the light below. Forest green refers to the average reflectance of a healthy mid-summer canopy seen from below: a saturated, slightly muted green with the matte finish of layered chlorophyll. Deeper than fern, cooler than olive, with the ecological weight of a word that has named every wooded biome on Earth.