What is the origin of the Easter Egg?

Answer 1

The Easter Egg comes from pagan origins. Easter was a pagan celebation of rebirth once spring began. It was adopted by early Christians. The egg is symbolic of rebirth, so it is used.

Answer 2

The Greeks, who were pagans, worshipped a goddess; many of them and gods too, and one of these was the goddess Ishtar, and they practiced mother worship too. The egg is a symbol of life as are the rabbits who have a lot of babies. You can find all of this in any encyclopedia.

Many of our holidays stem from pagan worship. Later on, the name Ishtar or Ishtareth was changed in English to Easter, and because Jesus came out of the tomb alive after 3 days in it, the egg symbolizes that because of the new life it represents.

There is a lengthy treatise on this in the Wikipedia. I have looked it up and went to the history of the egg, but there are many sub-divisions of that article that you can read. The part about the history of the Easter Egg is below. It is something that the Jews could take from an animal and not consider it to be eating blood.

Answer 3

Decorated eggs are much older than Easter, and both eggs and rabbits are age-old fertility symbols. The Passover Seder service uses a hard-cooked egg flavored with salt water as a symbol both of new life and the Temple service in Jerusalem. The Jewish tradition may have come from earlier Roman Spring feasts.

The Easter egg tradition may have celebrated the end of the privations of Lent. In the West, eggs were seen as "meat", which would have been forbidden during Lent. Likewise, in Eastern Christianity, both meat and dairy are prohibited during the fast, and eggs are seen as "dairy" (a foodstuff that could be taken from an animal without shedding its blood).

Answer 4

Eggs represent new life--they've been a symbol of spring since ancient times, and Christians adopted the egg as an Easter symbol for the relationship of Easter & renewal of life.

Answer 5

EASTER NOT FOUND IN THE BIBLE
"The English word 'Easter' came from the Anglo-Saxon Eastre or Estera, a Teutonic goddess to whom sacrifice was offered in April, so the name was transferred to the Pashal Feast. The word does not properly occur in Scripture although the AV (King James Translation) has it in ACTS 12:4 where it stands for 'Passover' as it is rightly rendered in RV (Revised Version). There is no trace of Easter celebration in the New Testament..." (INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BIBLE ENCYCLOPEDIA VOL.2, P.889). The word 'Easter' has confused some but the word in the original form is "Pascha" meaning "Passover". It occurs 29 times in the New Testament & everytime it's translated Passover except in Acts 12:4. If you read carefully (ACTS 12:1-4); it says that Herod killed James and was trying to kill Peter in an effort to "vex the church"(Please the Jews). Then in VERSE 3 "were the days of unleavened bread"; see LEV.23. He put him in prison intending to try him "after Easter" (KJV). Now if Herod was trying to "please the Jews" & "vex the church" Why would he have delayed the trial until after 'Easter?'" BY GROVER STEVENS (WWW.BIBLEANSWER.COM/EASTER2.HTML) If this was a "christian holy day", especially one in honoring Christ's resurrection, he would surely not be pleasing the Jews, Wouldn't it be more pleasing to the Jews to vex the church by killing one of it's Apostles on it's own "holy-day," would it not?

ORIGIN OF EASTER: WHERE DID IT COME FROM?
Easter was never observed by the Apostles of Christ or Christ's Religion. "The name 'Easter' comes to us from the mythlogical writings of the Ancient Teucrians (who lived 1200BC along the southern coast of Palestine) where it's known as 'Ostern'" BY GROVER STEVENS. "The name 'Easter' is merely the slightly changed English spelling of the name of the ancient Assyrian and Babylonian idol goddess, Ishtar (pronounced eesh-tar)." WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY says "Easter is from the pre-historic name of a pagan spring festival." THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH ETYMOLOGY says, "Easter is derived from the name of goddess whose feast was celebrated at the vernal equinox." THE SCHOLARY NEW SCHAFF-HERZOG RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA says, "This goddess is also widely known as Astarte...The cult originated in Babylonia and spread to Assyria, Mesopotamia, Syria & Palestine, then through the Phoenicians to all of the Meditteranean peoples...Ishtar was in fact primarily and chiefly identified as Venus, the most beautiful of celestial objects & from the terrestrial side, the primarily motive of the worship of Ishtar was the impulse to deify sensuous and sensuality." ALEXANDER HISLOP SAYS IN THE TWO BABYLONS (P.103), "Easter bears its Chaldean origin on its forehead. Easter is nothing else than Asarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven..."

VERSES-- DEUT.4:19,28-31; 11:26-28; 17:3 & GAL.4:8-10.

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Answer 6

Someone once told me that the origin started back in the days when the women and men would have this day where they would get naked and the women would paint themselves and hide and the men would go looking for them and wherever they found them they would have sexual intercourse there.

Answer 7

The egg signifies the tomb of Christ.

Answer 8

it all started when a bunny and a chicken slept together.................................