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The online portal Yahoo! is pushing a "Wear Purple" promotional campaign in October, which is coincidentally (?) known as mes morado (purple month) in Peru.

"Yahoo! Start Wearing Purple" the campaign's website screams. (It's all an effort to associate the Yahoo! brand with this color, which began with reconfigured purple logo in July.) Images of purple skate shoes, purple t-shirts and purple toys float on a deep eggplant-hued background. A blip of teaser text explains:

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A left sidebar takes the viewer to several video clips about the "meaning" of purple (it represents individuality, creativity, passion, royalty, Yahoo! claims), while product shots link to click-and-buy shopping carts. The video clips took forever to load on my computer, so I only looked at two. The introduction to "Celebrate Purple" reads: "Deep Inside everyone is a Yahoo waiting to come out. Set it free with a little Purple." Funky oompah-Russian (?) music accompanies images of happy eccentrics cutting up: purple-visored grannies playing the drums, young hipsters rolling on the lawn, etc. "Pioneers of Purple" profiles six successful/cutting edge people who somehow "live purple" (translation: do cool stuff and get paid a lot of money). The pioneers (I just resisted the urge to put that in quotes) include 24-year-old Internet trendsetter Josh Spear and musician Larry Jackson. I couldn't find any mention of the folks I consider the real pioneers of purple: the past and present devotees of El Señor de los Milagros, a miraculous Christ figure housed in a colonial-era church in downtown Lima.

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As I blogged in "Purple Month and the Lord of the Miracles," tens of thousands of Peruvians spend the month of October dressed in purple head to toe, as a testiment to their faith in El Señor. The tradition of wearing purple in October goes back hundreds of years and is a Peruvian as Machu Picchu or Inca Cola. I never would have believed it until I moved to Lima last year and saw "purple fever" for myself. No one's doing it as a fashion statement or to show that they're "cool," "creative," "original," "trendsetting" or any of the other adjectives that Yahoo! flaunts in its "Wear Purple" campaign. Peruvians wear purple as sign of deep religious devotion and, in some cases, penitence. If Yahoo's aware of those associations, the company no doubt recognizes that they're not part of the consciouness of most nonLatinto U.S. consumers. Hence the absence of references to Peru's "mes morado" on the "Wear Purple" website. However, it's not unreasonable to suppose that someone at Yahoo corporate headquarters might have been tracking statistics for online searches for "purple" and discovered that "purple month" is a hot keyword during October. I know that it is because that same phrase draws readers to my site, where I've posted two entries on El Señor de los Milagros. (See "Purple Month (Mes Morado) and the Lord of the Miracles" and "El Senor de los Milagros in Pachacamac.") I doubt that Yahoo's Wear Purple campaign is deliberately targeting devout Peruvian-Americans and other Hispanics who associate the color with religious piety. The company has been pushing "purple" since at least March 2006, when it began promoting Purple Acts of Kindness. I do, however, the timing of the current "Wear Purple" blitz is a tad suspicous. Could it be that Yahoo's pushing "Wear Purple" during mes morado is a calculated move to ride on the Peruvian Christ's SEO coattails?

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More Media Commentary on Yahoo's Purple Branding:

Yahoo: The Future's So Dim, You Gotta Wear Purple (Sept. 2008) Purple Yahoo! and Search Engine UI Testing (August 2007)

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Two days from now, October 18, Lima will be gripped by El Señor de los Milagros fever. That's the day when hundreds of thousands of purple-clad devotees take part in an elaborate street procession to celebrate a 350-year-old miraculous Christ icon. (See my post on "Purple Month and the Lord of the Miracles," Oct. 10, 2008). While Lima's procession draws the largest crowds, towns throughout Peru celebrate with equal fervor. Images made of flower petals are painstakingly arranged along processional routes, to be trod upon by hundreds of devotees singing, chanting and carrying a replica of the miraculous Christ image. Children, parents and elders take part. Some people fall on their knees and weep, imploring El Señor to protect their loved ones in the coming year. I was particularly drawn to these images from a procession for El Senor de los Milagros held in Pachacamac, about half an hour south of Lima. They're posted on Pachacamac, Peru, a website maintained by the city of Pachacamac, which also is home to one of the most extensive pre-Columbian ruins in Peru. (Click here to learn about ongoing archeological explorations at the site.) These photos show the face of small-town Peru: ordinary people of humble means, but possessed of great faith in something beyond:

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The online portal Yahoo! is pushing a "Wear Purple" promotional campaign in October, which is coincidentally (?) known as mes morado (purple month) in Peru.

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Given the company's failing performance in recent months (see "Future's So Dim" link below), the folks at Yahoo! might be looking for a purple miracle. --Barbara R. Drake, An American in Lima

More Media Commentary on Yahoo's Purple Branding:

Yahoo: The Future's So Dim, You Gotta Wear Purple (Sept. 2008) Purple Yahoo! and Search Engine UI Testing (August 2007)

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Given the company's failing performance in recent months (see "Future's So Dim" link below), the folks at Yahoo! might be looking for a purple miracle. --Barbara R. Drake, An American in Lima

More Media Commentary on Yahoo's Purple Branding:

Yahoo: The Future's So Dim, You Gotta Wear Purple (Sept. 2008) Purple Yahoo! and Search Engine UI Testing (August 2007)

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Retablo of El Senor de los Milagros, the miracle-granting Christ figure worshipped by purple devotees in Lima and worldwide

Given the company's failing performance in recent months (see "Future's So Dim" link below), the folks at Yahoo! might be looking for a purple miracle. --Barbara R. Drake, An American in Lima

More Media Commentary on Yahoo's Purple Branding:

Yahoo: The Future's So Dim, You Gotta Wear Purple (Sept. 2008) Purple Yahoo! and Search Engine UI Testing (August 2007)

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Procession in downtown Lima for El Senor de los Milagros, during Purple Month

Retablo of El Senor de los Milagros, the miracle-granting Christ figure worshipped by purple devotees in Lima and worldwide

Given the company's failing performance in recent months (see "Future's So Dim" link below), the folks at Yahoo! might be looking for a purple miracle. --Barbara R. Drake, An American in Lima

More Media Commentary on Yahoo's Purple Branding:

Yahoo: The Future's So Dim, You Gotta Wear Purple (Sept. 2008) Purple Yahoo! and Search Engine UI Testing (August 2007)

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Given the company's failing performance in recent months (see "Future's So Dim" link below), the folks at Yahoo! might be looking for a purple miracle. --Barbara R. Drake, An American in Lima

More Media Commentary on Yahoo's Purple Branding:

Yahoo: The Future's So Dim, You Gotta Wear Purple (Sept. 2008) Purple Yahoo! and Search Engine UI Testing (August 2007)

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Retablo of El Senor de los Milagros, the miracle-granting Christ figure worshipped by purple devotees in Lima and worldwide

Given the company's failing performance in recent months (see "Future's So Dim" link below), the folks at Yahoo! might be looking for a purple miracle. --Barbara R. Drake, An American in Lima

More Media Commentary on Yahoo's Purple Branding:

Yahoo: The Future's So Dim, You Gotta Wear Purple (Sept. 2008) Purple Yahoo! and Search Engine UI Testing (August 2007)

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A recent poll by the University of Lima indicated that more than three-quarters of devotees of El Señor de los Milagros say the Peruvian Christ figure has answered their prayers.

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Is Yahoo! Hoping for a Peruvian-style Miracle with Its October “Wear Purple” Media Blitz?

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Here's a strange convergence of cyber branding trends and Peruvian religious tradition.

The online portal Yahoo! is pushing a "Wear Purple" promotional campaign in October, which is coincidentally (?) known as mes morado (purple month) in Peru.

"Purple is the IN color this season--and for us, every season. Check out our new limited-edition Purple gear. Available for purchase now."

Procession in downtown Lima for El Senor de los Milagros, during Purple Month

Retablo of El Senor de los Milagros, the miracle-granting Christ figure worshipped by purple devotees in Lima and worldwide

Given the company's failing performance in recent months (see "Future's So Dim" link below), the folks at Yahoo! might be looking for a purple miracle. --Barbara R. Drake, An American in Lima

More Media Commentary on Yahoo's Purple Branding:

Yahoo: The Future's So Dim, You Gotta Wear Purple (Sept. 2008) Purple Yahoo! and Search Engine UI Testing (August 2007)

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Purple Month (Mes Morado) and the Lord of the Miracles

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It is October in Lima, also known as mes morado, the Purple Month. There are purple banners hung along streets in downtown Lima, purple candles sold on street corners, desserts tied with purple bows displayed in bakery windows. A favorite pastry is a flat, candy- and syrup-drenched affair known as Turron de Dona Pepa.

On city streets and in banks and restaurants, you'll find people dressed in purple head to toe. Usually they are middle-aged ladies wearing conservative knee-length dresses and pants suits. Sometimes it will be a child dressed in a purple robe with matching cape. Occasionally you will see a trendsetter in a purple mini skirt, purple tights and black leather riding boots, like the young woman I saw in Wong last October. (I wish I had taken her picture.) The people in purple nearly always accessorize with a thick, white cord, like the belt worn by Friar Tuck. If I were back in the United States and stumbled on a holiday in which people dress all in purple and stuff themselves with sweets, I'd probably assume it was Willy Wonka Day. Here in Peru, where fervent, color-coordinated festivities usually signal religious events, I know better than to associate mes morado with a Roald Dahl character, particularly one played on screen by Johnny Depp. Purple Month is dedicated to El Señor de los Milagros (Lord of the Miracles), a miraculous Christ figure that dates to the 1600s and whose image (actually, images) are housed in the Church of the Nazarene, in downtown Lima. As freelance writer and blogger Cliff describes it on klephblog:

There is, perhaps, nothing more Peruvian than The Lord of Miracles. For almost the whole month of October is devoted to this unique religious icon and it is venerated by Peruvians across the globeThe Lord of Miracles, or El Señor de los Milagros as it is known in Spanish, is actually a centuries-old painting on the wall of a relatively obscure church in central Lima.

According to tradition, in 1651 a slave who had converted to Catholicism painted the depiction of Christ on the cross on the wall of a building in the outskirts of Lima where new devotees to the faith gathered to pray.When a devastating earthquake struck the city four years later the entire building collapsed except for the wall adorned with the painting. Over the next several decades, the image became associated with miraculous incidents. More and more people, particularly the descendents of slaves, began to worship at the site.

Every October, hundreds of thousands of worshippers line the streets of Lima for a series of processions with El Señor de los Milagros. An elaborate oil painting of the original mural is carried on a silver litter weighing two tons. Groups of devotees take turns carrying the phenomenally heavy litter, while other worshippers pray and sing along the processional route. It is a remarkable demonstration of faith and devotion, similar to Holy Week processions held throughout the Americas but centered on a Christ figure unique to Peru. I've found several excellent introductions to the cult of El Señor de los Milagros, published online, with descriptions and rather amazing photographs of the events. In addition to Kleph's essay, "The Lord of Miracles" (October 2006), I recommend Alejandro of PeruFood's post on "October in Lima: The Purple Month." Alejandro discusses the history of the religious holiday and discusses the distinctive foods associated with mes morado, including Turrón de Doña Pepa, anticuchos (grilled cow's hearts), and picarones (pumpkin fritters with syrup). Other bloggers and reporters offer glimpses of how Peruvian expatriates celebrate mes morado around the globe. Peter Holderness, writing for Media Reports, describes a recent Lord of the Miracles procession in Chicago, complete with a 2,500-lb litter. Artist Luis Colan reports on events in New York City, where a brotherhood of El Señor de los Milagros began in the 1970s. He also vividly recalls participating in the Lima processions as a child, when he was nearly crushed by the crowd but still was thrilled by the experience. From his blog The Deacon's Bench, a Roman Catholic deacon in Baltimore describes a 2007 El Señor de los Milagros procession in Baltimore, Maryland. Deacon Greg Kanda notes that "the pageantry and devotion will be familiar to anyone who has ever witnessed the San Gennaro festival, a staple of many Italian-American communities." Google searches turn up numerous videos of processions in Lima, New York, and Hollywood. This past Monday, El Fotógrafo, El Híjo and I went to the Church of Las Nazarenas, to visit the litter of The Lord of the Miracles in Peru. Even though there was no procession that day, the streets were jammed with purple-clad devotees, and people were lined up halfway around the block to attend Mass in the church. I admit that El Señor was an impressive sight on his silver litter. Thick palo santo incense scented the air. People pressed close to the image clutching photos of their children and loved ones, hoping for a blessing or a cure. We bought a small silver and gold icon of El Señor to bring home. ---Barbara Drake Shopping Links: El Senor de los Milagros icon on eBay Senor de los Milagros stamps (on eBay) Susana Baca album: El Senor de los Milagros (on Amazon)