What do chocolate eggs have to do with the resurrection?

[BigonaBianchi]

as much as stockings and trees have to do with donkeys and wise men I guess?

 

[TVC]

Nothing, it's just that the Christians decided to hijack the traditional festivals of fertility and renewal that went on long before they came along.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

are chocolate eggs a pagan symbol of fertility?

 

[TVC]

Not necessarily chocolate, but the decoration of eggs, and celebration of rebirth certainly are.

 

[accountantpete]

I just won a Rolo Easter Egg in a charity shop raffle - it looked great from the outside but inside they had just stuffed a normal tube of Rolo's and cheap foil wrapped egg with about a small dairy milk bar worth of chocolate.

Tis money methinks...

 

[Pat "5mph"]

The rolling of the eggs symbolize (I read somewhere) the stones rolling out of Christ's grave when it was reopened. They used to close a grave's entrance with stones, because of scavengers. Why they evolved in chocolate eggs, I do not know, but

 

[Night Train]

It is the celebration of the chicken, giver of feathers and eggs, waker upper of the Sun, the origin of Jewish penicillin (Chicken soup).

 

[numbnuts]

Being a Catholic and on a diet I'll go to church tonight for the Easter Vigil at 8.30pm but not eat any Easter Eggs

 

[Pat "5mph"]

It is the celebration of the chicken, giver of feathers and eggs, waker upper of the Sun, the origin of Jewish penicillin (Chicken soup).

Ah! Night Train, I am learning a lot of things from you in this forum, not many bike related, I must say, very interesting nevertheless.
Only sometimes I am not sure if you are joking

 

[Piemaster]

The rolling of the eggs symbolize (I read somewhere) the stones rolling out of Christ's grave when it was reopened. They used to close a grave's entrance with stones, because of scavengers. Why they evolved in chocolate eggs, I do not know, but

As the velvet curtain posted, pagan tradition hijacked by Christians "people are going to carry on with the eggs anyway, so we may as well find some sort of Christian twist on them" Spindoctors aren't a new thing.

Why do I now want a chocolate egg?

 

[Arch]

As the velvet curtain posted, pagan tradition hijacked by Christians "people are going to carry on with the eggs anyway, so we may as well find some sort of Christian twist on them" Spindoctors aren't a new thing.

Why do I now want a chocolate egg?

Because you're worth it.

I bet the egg thing was hijacked by a whole series of different pagans before the Christians even got to it.

Anyway, do we need a reason to eat chocolate?

 

[Night Train]

Ah! Night Train, I am learning a lot of things from you in this forum, not many bike related, I must say, very interesting nevertheless.
Only sometimes I am not sure if you are joking

Well, at least one of them is true, the others? Well.....

I am full of facts and suppositions and I make a lot of links between various facts, not all of them serious but mostly entertaining. My autistic tendencies means I gather and consider information as a matter of course.

 

[colly]

Why they evolved in chocolate eggs, I do not know, but

Well eating stone eggs must have played havoc with their dental hygiene.

 

[Night Train]

As the velvet curtain posted, pagan tradition hijacked by Christians "people are going to carry on with the eggs anyway, so we may as well find some sort of Christian twist on them" Spindoctors aren't a new thing.

Why do I now want a chocolate egg?

Begs the question 'Why chocolate and not real eggs?'

 

[Arch]

Begs the question 'Why chocolate and not real eggs?'

As ever, my answer to 'why chocolate?' is 'why not!'...