On Easter Sunday, many children wake up to find that the Easter Bunny has left them baskets of candy. He has also hidden the eggs that they decorated earlier that week. Children hunt for the eggs all around the house. Neighborhoods and organizations hold Easter egg hunts, and the child who finds the most eggs wins a prize.
The Easter Bunny is a rabbit-spirit. Long ago, he was called the "Easter Hare", hares and rabbits have frequent multiple births so they became a symbol of fertility. The custom of an Easter egg hunt began because children believed that hares laid eggs in the grass. The Romans believed that "All life comes from an egg."
Christians consider eggs to be "the seed of life" and so they are symbolic of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Why we dye, or color, and decorate eggs is not certain. In ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and Persia eggs were dyed for spring festivals. In medieval Europe, beautifully decorated eggs were given as gifts.
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About Me
- ELODEE JOHNSON
- Fargo, North Dakota, United States
- On the east coast, a friend is riding her bicycle on the board walk. In Texas, a friend teases about driving the rag top and the warm air. Arizona offers notes from a snow bird as she walks before it gets too warm. We are heroes in this upper midwest as we rejoice in simply seeing pavement. Yet, all of us together, enjoy the stories of our history whether we put them in a blog or not. Most of us can read others journals and bob our heads in agreement. It is a small world, after all. Nine hundred plus postings and growing.. ej
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