Doing some digging into RED, especially the connection of Tony Podesta's red shoes which are also sometimes worn by his group of associates. The research went from "fashion" to the painting of the house posts "red with blood" in the Biblical "exodus." It might be noted that Marxist rules state that killing of opponents of the new regime is a basic principal – a basic requirement to success.
http://www.anothermag.com/fashion-beauty/9312/reflections-on-the-meaning-of-red-in-art-fashion-and-film
— It can almost seem too obvious at first: vivid red, with its powerful cultural connotations of lust, rage, sin and blood.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter made sure the colour’s power was writ large in Western cultural memory: a bright red A for adulteress on Hester Prynne’s black and white pilgrim costume was enough to mark her out of her New England community, to tar her name as a whore, a shamed woman.
— Red, of course, is traditionally the colour of the political left, too.
— In fashion red is sometimes viewed as a nod to a woman’s sexual power, or a kind of personal brazenness.
— The use of red light and red interiors in Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love
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leavening = puffing up, compared to pride, which could be associated with the color red = calling attention to something or making it obvious
which reminded me of Exodus 12, the "passover" where the house posts were to be painted RED with the blood of the lamb that was to be slaughtered for the feast –
to be remembered through all generations
as also: the feast of the unleavened bread, very important it not be puffed up
The "passover" feast of eating the lamb WHOLE, and was only to be BURNT, not boiled etc.
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from Morris and Morris, Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins (1962):
"Holocaust (pronounced HOL-oh-kost) is a word we sometimes see in the headlines, yet it is not one that many of us find in our speaking vocabularies. Originally a holocaust was a sacrificial burnt offering to pagan gods in pre-Christian times. It is derived from the Greek words holos (whole) and kaustos (burnt)."
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https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+12&version=KJV
12 And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying,
2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord's passover.
12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord.
13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
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Thus
the entire Jewish nation is protected now
because of the BLOOD ON THEIR HOUSE POSTS.
Was this a ritual – on the EVE OF THEIR EXODUS back to their homeland???