What do chocolate eggs have to do with the resurrection?
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GrumpyGregry
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I'll tell you what have got smaller, and in a space of only six weeks, Heston Blumintrolls Earl Grey and Mandarin hot cross buns. The ones on sale today are approximately half the height of the ones we've been buying during Lent.
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
Eating your way into a grave to rob it is easier than digging?
Piemaster
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Maybe so, but they were bigger because everyone but you had given them up for Lent. Now normal service is resumed they have t make more with the same amount of ingredients.
Mad Doug Biker
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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
That's what we were taught at school.
No idea if it is true, but it seems as plausable a story as any.
Night Train
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On a similar note, what has The Doctor's favorite fantasy, the Cadbury's Caramel bunny, (and other rabbits) have to do with Easter?
Arch
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From Wikipedia:
"The hare was a popular motif in medieval church art. In ancient times it was widely believed (as by Pliny, Plutarch, Philostratus and Aelian) that the hare was hermaphrodite.[2][3][4] The idea that a hare could reproduce without loss of virginity led to an association with the Virgin Mary, with hares sometimes occurring in illuminated manuscripts and Northern European paintings of the Virgin and Christ Child. It may also have been associated with the Holy Trinity, as in the three hares motif,[2][5] representing the "One in Three and Three in One" of which the triangle or three interlocking shapes such as rings are common symbols. In England, this motif usually appears in a prominent place in the church, such as the central rib of the chancel roof, or on a central rib of the nave. This suggests that the symbol held significance to the church, and casts doubt on the theory that they may have been masons' or carpenters' signature marks.[6]
Eggs, like rabbits and hares, are fertility symbols of antiquity. Since birds lay eggs and rabbits and hares give birth to large litters in the early spring, these became symbols of the rising fertility of the earth at the Vernal Equinox.[citation needed]
Rabbits and hares are both prolific breeders. Female hares can conceive a second litter of offspring while still pregnant with the first.[7] This phenomenon is known as superfetation. Lagomorphs mature sexually at an early age and can give birth to several litters a year (hence the saying, "to breed like bunnies"). It is therefore not surprising that rabbits and hares should become fertility symbols, or that their springtime mating antics should enter into Easter folklore."
"The hare was a popular motif in medieval church art. In ancient times it was widely believed (as by Pliny, Plutarch, Philostratus and Aelian) that the hare was hermaphrodite.[2][3][4] The idea that a hare could reproduce without loss of virginity led to an association with the Virgin Mary, with hares sometimes occurring in illuminated manuscripts and Northern European paintings of the Virgin and Christ Child. It may also have been associated with the Holy Trinity, as in the three hares motif,[2][5] representing the "One in Three and Three in One" of which the triangle or three interlocking shapes such as rings are common symbols. In England, this motif usually appears in a prominent place in the church, such as the central rib of the chancel roof, or on a central rib of the nave. This suggests that the symbol held significance to the church, and casts doubt on the theory that they may have been masons' or carpenters' signature marks.[6]
Eggs, like rabbits and hares, are fertility symbols of antiquity. Since birds lay eggs and rabbits and hares give birth to large litters in the early spring, these became symbols of the rising fertility of the earth at the Vernal Equinox.[citation needed]
Rabbits and hares are both prolific breeders. Female hares can conceive a second litter of offspring while still pregnant with the first.[7] This phenomenon is known as superfetation. Lagomorphs mature sexually at an early age and can give birth to several litters a year (hence the saying, "to breed like bunnies"). It is therefore not surprising that rabbits and hares should become fertility symbols, or that their springtime mating antics should enter into Easter folklore."
asterix
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There's a lot to be said for paganism.
