where is the connection between the holy festival of easter and chocolate eggs?

Answer 1

If you mean the holy CHRISTIAN festival, then you have a bigger question than you realise. There is a celebration of the resurrection story at this time of year, but the festival is not called Easter. As far as I know, it doesn't actually have a name.

Eastre, or Eostre (the exact spelling is, really, unimportant since the original word has been recorded with many variations) was a Teutonic goddess of dawn, Spring and fertility. In Pagan religions, She is symbolically represented by hares and eggs because of their obvious associations with the processes of procreation.

Easter is Her holy festival and has nothing whatsoever to do with Christianity. Eggs represent her symbolically whether made palatable for children to consume by being made of chocolate or simply hard boiled.

If you are a Christian who seriously wants to celebrate Easter, you're going to have to change your religion.

Answer 2

Easter replaced an early pagan fertility festival to celebrate spring. Spring is the time for re-birth. The Clever Powers that sought to control the world thought this would be a good time to introduce the Biblical story about Christ's ressurrection. Ressurection is re-birth. The egg is a symbol of new life and so, of re-birth; symbolising the ever spiralling question of life forms moving in a non-linear way. Hence the famous "riddle" we all love to hate - "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" And chocolate would have been added on much much later. When people had been painting real eggs for that long that the novelty had grown thin, some marketing genius decided to make chocolate ones. Yummier than those sugar lambs anyway!

Answer 3

When the Christian Religion was in its youth, the more dominant and popular religion was the Pagan religion.

During this time, different cultures and religions fought and killed one another for supreme dominance of their particular religions (not much different now either, huh).

Since the Pagan religion was centuries old by the time the Christian religion came to exist. In order to gain support, the Christians created holidays at the same time the Pagans had holidays. The Christian holidays were similar in concept to the Pagan's but the Christian's would rename it and claim it as its own.

The Pagan holiday that Easter imitates was known as Spring Equinox. It represented a renewal, the ending of winter, fertillity. You will notice this time of year that animals reproduce more. Tadpoles arrive, cats are seen being chased by birds (possibly for attempting to raid the nest of baby birds), ducks are seen with ducklings following behind. This symbol of fertility is represented by the Easter Egg (egg meaning new born). Rabbits are also known for reproducing. The Pagan holiday also celebrated fertility with sex. Todays Easter egg hunt was yesterday's woman hunt. Men would hunt women for the holiday and have sex upon finding. Sort of a hide and go seek type game.

Christians had to gain popularity for its holiday so they adopted many of the symbols from the Pagan holiday. The Easter holiday was named after the Lunar Goddess of Fertility whose name was Eostre. Christians also added the leader of the Religion "Christ" into the Easter concept to promote the religion. A rebirth of Christ.

So in short, the rising of Christ has no connection with the bunnies, chocolate and colorful eggs. Christians were only developing the concept and promoting the religion. We now have EASTER.

Answer 4

The egg is originally a Pagan symbol expressing fertility and the right of Spring And rebirth.

This is also true of the rabbit - as in "The Easter Bunny"

For followers of Judiasm, the Seder uses a boiled egg flavored with salt water as a symbol of new life.

This tradition seems to come from the Roman Spring feasts.

The ancient Persians also painted eggs for Nowrooz, their New Year celebration falling on the Spring Equinox.

This tradition has continued every year on Nowrooz since ancient times.

Answer 5

There is no connection. Easter is a pagan holiday celebrating the arrival of Spring with fertility rites. Eggs are a symbol of FERTILITY. It is another holiday stolen by Xtians from pagans.

Easter falls on the first Sunday following the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after March 21 (the day of the ecclesiastical vernal equinox). If this was about Jesus, why doesn't it happen on the same day every year? Why does it revolve around full moons and equinoxes?

Answer 6

The connection with eggs is Jesus rising from the dead as a new life, eggs represent a new life beginning.
However there is an earlier reference to eggs, rabbits and spring from the Saxons.
The earliest Easter eggs were ordinary eggs hollowed out and painted by hand, Faberge took this one step further when he made the famous Faberge eggs for the Czar of Russia.
The chocolate egg came from Germany and France and were first given around the early 1800's.

Answer 7

not sure of the connection with the choco eggs think it was the powers that be who turned old custom into money making exercise ..many moons ago we used to hard boil eggs and spend ages painting them then we would take to nearest steep slope and have contest to see whose painted egg lasted the longest as to being christian or pagan thingy really not interested it was fun and we kids needed the fun ..in this dark ages when fun was fun and didn't need a reason

Answer 8

Easter is the celebration of Jesus Christs resurrection from the dead, and the egg represents new life. Chocolate is just the confectioners and business men cashing in.

Answer 9

It is one of those pagen festivals that have been Incorporated into the Christian faith . Originally people of ancient Briton would give each other Quayle's eggs around this period . Christianity tied this in with the Easter festival

Answer 10

Basically what's already been said. They represent new life. And also the stone rolled away from the tomb, ever noticed the pattern on most large eggs is a bit like a rock? Well that's what they are supposed to be.