Mapped Zeus Lazuli

Latin mappa, cloth / napkin — past-participle of map. As a color modifier, mapped implies a clear-and-cartographic-and-surveyed quality, the crisp color of Ordnance-Survey-and-USGS scientific-and-cadastral cartographic-and-topographic mapping-and-projection. Sits at the crisp-and-mapped end of the grid, parallel to plotted and surveyed in usage.

Greek Ζεύς, king-of-the-Olympian-gods. As a color modifier, zeus implies a thunderbolt-and-king-of-gods-and-Olympian quality, the visual register of Olympian-Zeus-and-Phidias-Pheidias-statue hand-thunderbolt-and-king-of-gods-and-Olympian Olympian-Zeus-and-Phidias-statue-and-Mount-Olympus zeus-and-thunderbolt-and-king-of-gods-and-Olympian surfaces under Olympian-Zeus-and-Phidias-statue-and-Mount-Olympus Pheidias-chryselephantine-and-Olympia thunder-cloud-light. Sits at the modifier-and-myth end of the grid, parallel to hera and atlas in usage.

Passerina amoena, the lazuli bunting — a North American songbird whose males display saturated deep-blue plumage with white wing bars and chestnut breasts. Named for the gemstone (lapis lazuli) the bird's plumage resembles. The color refers to a male lazuli bunting in breeding plumage: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue.