Anyone care to enlighten me?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcjRAbj0ycE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg

Quote:Origin and folklore
The egg is widely used as a symbol of the start of new life, just as new life emerges from an egg when the chick hatches out.
The ancient Zoroastrians painted eggs for Nowrooz, their New Year celebration, which falls on the Spring equinox. The Nawrooz tradition has existed for at least 2,500 years. The sculptures on the walls of Persepolis show people carrying eggs for Nowrooz to the king.[citation needed]
There are good grounds for the association between hares (later termed Easter bunnies) and eggs, through folklore confusion between hares' forms (where they raise their young) and plovers' nests.[2]

This makes no sense.

Why??

You think painting easter eggs and relating them to rabbits and Jesus makes sense?

Lookup the whole Sun King/ Winter King cycles and the worship of the Solar year, Wicca may be a good start I think.

It may not be so NOW but in years past winters were much worse, thanks to this 'global warming' trend whole villages are not dying out and food is plentiful. Ēostre or Ostara marked the time of year (usually around Vernal Equinox) when seed could be planted and people could go out from their homes with a reasonable expectation of return that night unscathed. After Imbolc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbolc ... February 2, the wait for the ground to thaw so the new lambs could eat the new grass was fraught with danger. Equinox marked the triumph of the Sun over the Ice and so with abundance running feely (and chickens laying heavily) Easter eggs have continued to be used as celebration to mark the occasion. Religion can not hold back the wheel of the seasons...seems their god just wasn't up to it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_of_the_Year

The religious could not interfere with an agrarian { https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrarian_society }society... that meant they were the ones who'd miss out.

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(March 21, 2012 at 6:12 am)Napoleon Wrote: You think painting easter eggs and relating them to rabbits and Jesus makes sense?

No one says it does (well no one with any brains or common sense)

As I posted...it is just a rip off by the Abrahamic (and xtianity is the BIG culprit here) religions that the whole grovelling to god for being alive at the end of a harsh snow bound winter and being able to work your fucking butt off for "the Man" (aka the "Church") that you are ALLOWED to celebrate with eggs and while you are doing that you will be thinking of this zombie and fell guilty. For the Middle Eastern Countries it is Ramadan I think... { https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadan } but again it is a celebration of abundance after shortage of food...nothing more.

Meh I like my version better.

Every year my intolerant, catholic gran buys me an easter egg. I think I am going to have to bring some shit up with her about the origin of what she is giving me.

(March 21, 2012 at 6:54 am)frankiej Wrote: Every year my intolerant, catholic gran buys me an easter egg. I think I am going to have to bring some shit up with her about the origin of what she is giving me.

What...that she is participating in a Pagan/ Teutonic ritual?? That pre-dates xtianity?? Do you think she is up for that? Maybe some Oxygen and Digitalis should be on hand just in case

(March 21, 2012 at 6:58 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote:

(March 21, 2012 at 6:54 am)frankiej Wrote: Every year my intolerant, catholic gran buys me an easter egg. I think I am going to have to bring some shit up with her about the origin of what she is giving me.

What...that she is participating in a Pagan/ Teutonic ritual?? That pre-dates xtianity?? Do you think she is up for that? Maybe some Oxygen and Digitalis should be on hand just in case

She would probably just say that I was lying and that it has always been a Christian thing. She doesn't deal with confrontation very well. She is too stubborn to listen to anything that contradicts her vision of her religion.

But, she makes a mu'fuckin' beastin' chicken pie.