Salubrious Isis Turquoise

Latin salūbris, healthful — adjectival suffix -ous. As a color modifier, salubrious implies a clear-and-healthful-and-fresh quality, the crisp color of Alpine-and-Sea-air health-resort and Mediterranean-coast spa-and-thalassotherapy outdoor environment. Sits at the crisp-and-wholesome end of the grid, parallel to healthful and bracing in usage.

Egyptian Aset, throne-and-mother-goddess. As a color modifier, isis implies a winged-and-throne-and-mother-goddess quality, the visual register of Egyptian-Isis-and-Philae-temple hand-winged-and-throne-and-mother-goddess Egyptian-Isis-and-Philae-temple-and-Osirian-myth isis-and-winged-and-throne-and-mother-goddess surfaces under Egyptian-Isis-and-Philae-temple-and-Osirian-myth Nile-and-Philae-Aswan-temple winged-throne-light. Sits at the modifier-and-myth end of the grid, parallel to horus and thoth in usage.

The hydrated copper-aluminum phosphate mined in Persia and the American Southwest for thousands of years — the firuze of Iran, the chalchihuitl of Mesoamerica, the heart of Pueblo and Navajo silverwork. The color refers to a fine Sleeping Beauty turquoise from Arizona: a saturated, slightly green-shifted blue with the slight matrix of host-rock veining. Brighter than persian, lighter than cerulean.