Crimson & Rose & Beige

Crimson is the Iranian pomegranate — the deep vivid crimson of the most symbolically loaded Persian fruit. The pomegranate in Persian culture: the pomegranate — Punica granatum — anār — آنار (the most immediately symbolically rich and the most comprehensively Iranian-cultural-tradition-associated of all the Persian symbolic fruits — simultaneously: the most immediately Persian-New-Year — Nowruz — table-specific (the most specifically Haft-Sin arrangement-placing and the most immediately spring-renewal-associated of the most important seven symbolic items on the most traditional Persian New Year table); the most immediately Iranian-wedding-ceremony-specific (the most directly and the most comprehensively fertility-and-abundance-symbolizing of any Persian wedding symbolic food — the most immediately bridal-night-offering and the most specifically good-luck-portending of any Iranian traditional wedding fruit); and the most immediately Achaemenid-Persepolis-relief-carving-specific (the most directly visible in the most immediately impressive Persepolis Apadana relief carvings depicting the most precisely pomegranate-carrying Immortal Guards — the most immediately historically famous and the most comprehensively elite Persian military unit — the Ten Thousand Immortals — the most immediately Achaemenid-royal-guard-specific of any ancient Near Eastern military elite)) is the most immediately symbolically important and the most comprehensively culturally Iranian of any Persian botanical symbol — the specific deep vivid crimson of the most perfectly ripe and the most immediately jewel-seed-specific Iranian pomegranate being simultaneously the most immediately beautifully striking and the most comprehensively culturally significant of any Persian natural color. Rose is the Shiraz rose water — the vivid electric rose of the most poetically beautiful Persian city's botanical tradition. Shiraz and poetry: the most immediately internationally famous association of Shiraz with the most comprehensive Persian literary tradition — Shiraz being simultaneously: the birthplace of Hafez (Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī — approximately 1315-1390 CE — the most immediately internationally famous and the most comprehensively Persian-lyric-poetry-defining of all the classical Persian poets — the most immediately Divan-specific and the most comprehensively ghazal-form-perfecting of any classical Persian literary tradition — whose tomb — the Hafezieh — in Shiraz — the most immediately pilgrimage-specific and the most comprehensively Persian-literary-tradition-associated of any Iranian literary memorial site); the birthplace of Saadi (Muslih-ud-Din Mushrif ibn Abdullah Saadi Shirazi — approximately 1210-1292 CE — the most immediately internationally famous and the most comprehensively moralizing-Persian-literature-producing of all the classical Persian poets — the most directly and the most immediately Golestan and Bustan author of the most important Persian moral-didactic literature — whose most immediately internationally famous couplet: 'Bani Adam a'zay-e yek digar and / Ke dar afarinesh ze yek johar and' — inscribed at the entrance of the United Nations Hall of Nations — the most immediately diplomatically universally applicable and the most comprehensively Persian-poetry-internationally-famous of any classical Persian verse). Beige is the Persepolis limestone — the warm pale beige of the most impressive ancient Iranian monument. Persepolis: Takht-e Jamshid (the most immediately internationally famous and the most comprehensively Achaemenid-Persian-Empire-ceremonial-capital-specific of all the Iranian archaeological sites — UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979 — the most immediately dramatically impressive and the most specifically Darius I-and-Xerxes I-commissioning of any ancient Iranian monumental architecture — begun approximately 518 BCE by Darius I and expanded most comprehensively by Xerxes I — the most immediately internationally famous and the most specifically massive stone-relief-carved platform and columned audience hall of any ancient Near Eastern imperial ceremonial complex) in the most specifically locally quarried Marvdasht grey-to-pale-beige limestone creates the most immediately beautiful and the most comprehensively ancient-Iranian-archaeology-specific warm neutral stone color of any Iranian archaeological monument — the specific warm pale beige of the most precisely ashlar-cut and the most immediately relief-carving-specific Persepolis limestone being simultaneously the most immediately beautiful and the most comprehensively Achaemenid-architectural-tradition-specific of any ancient Iranian stone color.