Saturday, March 2, 2013

Significance of the Easter Egg

  With Easter just around the corner (in non-Orthodoxy Christianity), families dye eggs bright and happy colors with the promise of an Easter bunny bearing gifts and candies -- much like Santa Claus around Christmas.
  No historian or archaeologist is quite certain about the origin of the Easter Egg. However, in the Christian religion thousands of years ago, the egg symbolized the "seed of life", and thus represented the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
  Why we dye eggs is also unknown, though in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, eggs were dyed for festivals in celebration of the coming of spring. Egypt, Greece and Rome largely affected early Christian traditions, which is why historians believe eggs were dyed and given as gifts in medieval Europe during the reign of large churches and monasteries.

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