TUNIC If the cloak symbolises the outer border of the personality (or the mask>> - developing the meaning of the Jungian "I"), then the tunic denotes the personality or soul itself, that is, the zone of direct contact with the spirit. The hero, dressed in an orange tunic, burns with passion, as orange symbolizes fire and desire. The chiton soaked in the blood of the centaur Nessus caused the death of Hercules, who experienced excruciating pain from the poison penetrating the skin and eventually died on a funeral pyre, composed by him for himself and set on fire by lightning. Holes in a tunic (or clothing) or rags are equivalent to scars and symbolize mental wounds. Examining the orange tunic, Zimmer points out that in India it was worn by criminals condemned to death for terrible crimes. A similar symbolism has a long shirt, which was worn by those sentenced by the Inquisition to burning.
