Resurrection of Christ from the dead
This special time has roots in Judeo-Christian and Pagan traditions which arrives with longer days because of the spring and with the new blossom. Like its Jewish predecessor Passover, it is a movable feast, based on the lunar calendar rather than falling on the same Sunday every year.To commemorate the most significant event in their history – the resurrection of Christ from the dead,the honors the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ as stated in the New Testament of Bible. they dress in new clothes and attend religious services, getting together with their families for a meal. But it has always had its non-religious side, originally it was a pagan festival co-opted by Christian missionaries starting in the second century CE, however Easter and its symbol is not a modern fabrication.
The name Easter comes from the name of the Saxon Mother Goddess Eostre, whose name is derived from an ancient word for spring. Modern Easter symbols are bunnies, baby chicks, eggs and new spring flowers, The most beloved icon of this holiday has been Easter Bunny since at least 1500’s. In Egyptian mythology the hare is a symbol for the moon with which the Easter date is associated . Until the 19th century the Easter Rabbit did not become a commonly used symbol.
The egg is a life’s symbol, everyone is exchanging with eggs – that is believed to have originated from the Egyptians Once a Chinese parents sent a red egg to their friends as an announcement card when their baby was burn. Students are having fun making an egg-shaped cards for their relatives and friends.
For example in Ukraine was a tradition for Easter, the girls rubbed their cheeks with the red-colored eggs when they found them to give their cheeks a rosy glow after a long winter. For a good while colored eggs were used to represent the resurrection of Christ. If we look back in popular Easter facts, people during erstwhile era use to write down a romantic message on the egg and exchanged with their beloved ones.
In USA, Australia and few more European countries, children enjoy a lot hunting for Easter eggs ,in some other parts of Europe they are exchanging eggs like gifts along with their goodies. But one thing is common in all around the world – everyone decorates homes with new spring flowers and symbols of spring.
Nowadays on Good Friday and Easter Sunday many people go to the church to remember the sacrifice of the Lord. Many countries – mostly East European – decorate the houses with birch twigs in a vase indoors a couple of weeks before Easter, they are decorated with brightly colored feathers, chickens, small fake eggs, or painted blown-out real ones so they have a time to bud.
Happy Easter everyone!
