What Is the Significance of Blond Hair and Why Is It So Desirable All Over the World?
nest, he declared that he would only marry the owner of that hair. When it was found that the hair belonged to Isolde, the Irish royal princess, Tristan was sent to bring her to Mark, and on the way they fell hopelessly in love. Isolde is a typical Love goddess for whom the hero must die in the end.
It is also possible to find blond heroines in the Grimm Brothers’ Fairy Tales. One of these heroines is Rapunzel, who is said to have had “magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold”; another is the Goose Girl, whose waving locks “were all of pure silver”. Folk tales in turn have developed into modern fiction, and another divine woman with golden hair is Irene, heroine of Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga. She is described by the author as looking like a pagan goddess, whose figure expresses that of the Goddess of Love.
From literature to real life, the next type of Love goddess can be found among the goddesses of our times, who are film stars. Some of them are known to have dyed their hair blond, in order to enhance that concept of them, and one such modern Love goddess is Madonna, who is not even beautiful but distinguished by her blond hair. A better claim for the title, though, is Marilyn Monroe, who became famous for her film Men Prefer Blonds. Monroe certainly had the appearance of a Love goddess, with her original dark hair dyed blond, her lovely curvaceous body, and the many stories about her relations with men, that enhanced that illusion. That combination of her appearance, her profession and her behavior, certainly made Marilyn Monroe a throw back to pagan times and Sun worship. It is no wonder, then, that many women like to imitate her, at least by becoming blond; but such throw back may also affect those dark haired men, who prefer to enhance their outer persona in this way.
Links:
http://homepages.ius.edu/mcreceli/mythology.htm – Sun mythology
http://www.babynamesofireland.com/pages/niamh-oisin.html – Niamah with the Golden Hair
http://www.paleothea.com/Gallery/VenusSea.html – Botticelli’s Venus/Aphrodite
http://www.racialcompact.com/nordishrace.html – History of the Nordic race
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/arthur.html – The remains of King Arthur
http://www.masihiat.com/UL/Albums/Pictures/Pic2637.jpg – Jesus in the Synagogue
http://www.marilynmonroe.com/about/photos/color_photos.htm – Marilyn Monroe
My name is Tala Bar and I live in Israel. I hold an M.Phil. degree in literature from the London University. I taught Hebrew and English languages and literature before I turned a full time writer. I have had a number of books, stories and articles published in print and on the Net, both in Hebrew and English.