What do eggs have to do with Easter?

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goodpoint@acid_zebra

Answer 1

I like to eat them.

Answer 2

Nothing with the Christian Easter. But everything with the Pagan Easter. You see, Easter is an ancient holiday that predates Christianity. It has to do with the birth of a new year and a renewal of life. For eons, man has hated the winter and thus celebrated when the weather warmed up. The timing of Easter should be obvious that this is a solar holiday. It always takes place the SUNday after the first FULL MOON after the VERNAL EQUINOX. The sun was getting higher in the sky and made everybody happier, due to longer days. Man has created myths to celebrate the renewed life and fertility that Spring possessed..

Answer 3

Eggs (Easter). Eggs were symbolical from an early time. There was the “Mundane Egg”, in which Brahmâ gestated, with the Hindus the Hiranya-Gharba, and the Mundane Egg of the Egyptians, which proceeds from the mouth of the “unmade and eternal deity”, Kneph, and which is the emblem of generative power. Then the Egg of Babylon, which hatched Ishtar, and was said to have fallen from heaven into the Euphrates. Therefore coloured eggs were used yearly during spring in almost every country, and in Egypt were exchanged as sacred symbols in the spring-time, which was, is, and ever will be, the emblem of birth or rebirth, cosmic and human, celestial and terrestrial. They were hung up in Egyptian temples and are so suspended to this day in Mahometan mosques.

Answer 4

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Decorated Easter 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 egg is symbolic of the grave and life renewed by breaking out of it. The red symbolizes the blood of Christ redeeming the world, represented by the egg, and our regeneration through the bloodshed for us by Christ. The egg itself is a symbol of the Resurrection while being dormant it contains a new life sealed within it.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Answer 5

When the sunlight diminishes in the winter months , chickens stop laying eggs. When the sun light increases the chickens start laying eggs again . This is usually around the end of March-April . People associated this with the Resurrection. In Russia especially they really go nuts decorating the eggs ,in great detail .

Answer 6

Easter was originally a pagan holiday. The eggs and rabbits are pagan fertility symbols. Like most other "Christian" holidays easter was stolen from pagan ritual. They simply took the spring festival and stuck Jesus in it.

Answer 7

Not a thing. Christians don't encorporate eggs in worship of any kind. Just like Santa at Christmas, they just appear at the same time. Pagans and Christians use the same days. Thats all.

Answer 8

Easter was originally a Pagan celebration for spring. A time of renewal. Eggs are rebirth and fertitlity.

Answer 9

Easter is a holiday of Fertility ( for a Germanic Goddes Ostara). This holiday was hijacked by the christians. Eggs and Fertility kind of go hand in hand.

Answer 10

EGGS, like rabbits and hares, are fertility symbols of extreme antiquity; since birds lay eggs and rabbits and hares give birth (to large litters) in the early spring, these became symbols of the rising fertility of the earth at the Vernal Equinox.

The saying "mad as a March Hare" refers to the wild caperings of hares as the males fight over the females in the early spring, then attempt to mate with them. Since the females often rebuff the males' advances before finally succumbing, the mating behavior often looks like a crazy dance; these fights led early observers to believe that the advent of spring made the hares "mad". Rabbits and hares are both lagomorphs; they are prolific breeders. The females can conceive a second litter of offspring while still pregnant with the first (the two are born separately); this phenomenon is known as superfetation. Lagomorphs mature sexually at an early age and can give birth to several litters a year (hence the saying, "to breed like bunnies"). It is therefore not surprising that rabbits and hares should become fertility symbols, or that their springtime mating antics should enter into Easter folklore; however, the notion of a rabbit that lays eggs seems to have emerged from a confusion of two formerly separate symbolisms.

The precise origin of the custom of colouring eggs is not known, although it too is ancient; Greeks to this day typically dye their Easter eggs red, the color of blood, in recognition of the renewal of life in springtime (and, later, the blood of the sacrificed Christ). Some also use the color green, in honor of the new foliage emerging after the long "dead" time of winter. Other colors, including the pastels popular in the United States and elsewehere (possibly symbolizing the rainbow, another seasonal sign of luck and hope), seem to have come along later. The act of eating coloured eggs at the Spring Equinox can be considered a form of sympathetic magic or prayer for increased fertility, and for a bountiful harvest later in the year.

German Protestants wanted to retain the Catholic custom of eating colored eggs for Easter, but did not want to introduce their children to the Catholic rite of fasting. Eggs were forbidden to Catholics during the fast of Lent, which was the reason for the abundance of eggs at Easter time.

The idea of an egg-laying rabbit came to the United States in the 18th century. German immigrants in the Pennsylvania Dutch area told their children about the "Osterhase". "Hase" means "hare", not rabbit, and in Northwest European folklore the "Easter Bunny" indeed is a hare, not a rabbit.

Only good children received gifts of colored eggs in the nests that they made in their caps and bonnets before Easter. Presumably, the "Oschter Haws" laid them when the children were not looking.

A hundred years later Jakob Grimm wrote of long-standing similar myths in Germany itself. Noting many related landmarks and customs, Grimm suggested that these derived from legends of Ostara.THE EASTER BUNNY is a fictional giving rabbit which is said to leave gifts, usually Easter baskets for children at Easter (or at springtime). It originates in Western European cultures, where it is a hare rather than a rabbit. The Easter Bunny is an example of folklore mythology, which is in reality, fictional, but is sometimes presented to children as fact. Other prominent examples are Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.-

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Answer 11

The same thing as what does Christ have to do with the equinox. Absolutely nothing. Just the Christians stealing holidays from the Pagans again.