Purple


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History of Purple:
Historically, the color purple has been associated with royalty and power, but the secret of its power lies in the glands of tiny shellfish creatures. The earliest archaeological evidence for the origins of purple dyes points to the Minoan civilization in Crete, about 1900 B.C. The ancient land of Canaan (its corresponding Greek name was Phoenicia, which means “land of the purple”) was the center of the ancient purple dye industry. “Tyrian Purple,” the purple dye of the ancients mentioned in texts dating back to about 1600 B.C., was produced from the mucus of the hypobranchial gland of various species of marine mollusks, notably Murex. It took some 12,000 shellfish to extract 1.5 grams of the pure dye. Legend credits its discovery to Herakles, or rather to his dog, whose mouth was stained purple from chewing on snails along the Levantine coast. King Phoenix received a purple-dyed robe from Herakles and decreed the rulers of Phoenicia should wear this color as a royal symbol.

In France, the color symbolizes the Divinity field of study and is also worn by high acedemic officials ( the University President, Head of Faculty, etc)
In China, purple reminds them of the ominous Purple Mountain located in Nanjing Byzantine empresses gave birth in the Purple Chambers The purple triangle was a Nazi Concentration Camp symbol used to identify religious groups The purple triangle was a concentration camp badge used by the Nazis to identify Bibelforscher, as Jehovah's Witnesses were known in Germany at that time.

The color of mourning for widows in Thailand, purple was the favorite color of Egypt's Cleopatra. It has been traditionally associated with royalty in many cultures. Purple robes were worn by royalty and people of authority or high rank. The Purple Heart is a U.S. Military decoration given to soldiers wounded in battle.

Catholics use it for lent. It symbolizes both the pain and suffering leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus as well as the suffering of humanity and the world under sin. But purple is also the color of royalty, and so anticipates through the suffering and death of Jesus the coming resurrection and hope of newness that will be celebrated in the Resurrection on Easter Sunday.

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Purple is considered special and almost sacred in nature. For example, lavender, orchid, lilac and violet flowers are often delicate and considered precious. Purple is derived from mix of strong warm and strong cool color, which is red and blue. Because of this make-up, it has both warm and cool properties. Because of the two different properties, a purple room can boost a child's imagination or an artist's creativity. ======

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The Color Purple: a novel written in 1982 by Alice Walker, an American author. Later this novel was made into a musical and a film. This book is about a female black life during the 1930's in the southern united states. Purple is the color of Celie's private parts like sexual violation. Later shurg points out that you have to enjoy life. This represents the 2 different properties that purple has because it is a mixture of red and blue. It also presents the femininty and power that the black females want to possess ======

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