| Eggs and Easter:
The time which has been associated with Easter also has been ssociated
with various pre-Christian rites involving fertility, birth, _re_birth,
and renewal. The egg is, of course, a symbol of life-to-begin;
the Christian lamb symbolism is obvious. Rabbits (bunnies) are
also fertility/birthing symbols.
Note that many holidays take on traditions outside their precise
meaning (Christmas symbols are mostly nonChristian; but we could
talk for hours on that); occasionally, the diverse-background sometomes
is synergistic, symbolically.
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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The exchange of colored and elegantly decorated eggs in springtime
predated Easter by hundreds of years. Ancient Egyptians and Greeks, to
whom the egg symbolized birth and resurrection, placed them in tombs and
on graves.
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