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It is important this season that we don't forget the true meaning of Easter. Sometimes it really does get buried underneath these holiday masses, church services, and bunch of stuff about Christ rising.
When you open those eggs with your kids, and eat of the festival of rebirth you are far closer to the meaning of the season than any . . .paint that the Catholic church put on this house that is Easter
The meaning of Easter is not the same for everyone.
Leave it at that.
Celebrate it as YOU want to but don't go around telling people how they should celebrate it or what they should be thinking of today.
Indeed. The Saxons had their 'Estre' fertility God with eggs and rabbits (both symbolizing fertility), but Jesus Christ was crucified and resurrected around the Jewish passover, which is also in the spring. Everyone is free to celebrate either the pagan gods, Jesus Christ, or the Jewish exodus from Egypt.
Indeed. The Saxons had their 'Estre' fertility God with eggs and rabbits (both symbolizing fertility), but Jesus Christ was crucified and resurrected around the Jewish passover, which is also in the spring. Everyone is free to celebrate either the pagan gods, Jesus Christ, or the Jewish exodus from Egypt.
Fine. I celebrate the one based in nature, where the eggs were buried to give fertility to the land. And bunnies are also (for good reason if you've ever had a boy and girl bunny in the same place and time) a symbol of renewal and fertility. The pagan celebration should be at the spring equinox, actually.
But if you are celebrating the marterdome of a christan god, why have eggs and bunnies if that isn't what its about? Doesn't that seem in appropriate?
When I was a kid we dressed up in frilly dresses (hate frilly dresses now and did then too) and would plant some flowers in honor of spring. They'd go to church sometimes but neither parent was much for that. Best part was the whole family at Grandma's and her turn at the ham. Aside from the frilly dresses I have good memories but none of them revolve around a dead Jesus.
Fine. I celebrate the one based in nature, where the eggs were buried to give fertility to the land. And bunnies are also (for good reason if you've ever had a boy and girl bunny in the same place and time) a symbol of renewal and fertility. The pagan celebration should be at the spring equinox, actually.
But if you are celebrating the marterdome of a christan god, why have eggs and bunnies if that isn't what its about? Doesn't that seem in appropriate?
I don't celebrate with eggs and bunnies, although I don't see anything wrong with it, as I do not equate it with pagan god worship.
You are correct about the rabbit. It is used as a symbol of fertility because rabbits are very fertile. They multiply like......rabbits, and yes, in the spring.
It is important this season that we don't forget the true meaning of Easter. Sometimes it really does get buried underneath these holiday masses, church services, and bunch of stuff about Christ rising.
When you open those eggs with your kids, and eat of the festival of rebirth you are far closer to the meaning of the season than any . . .paint that the Catholic church put on this house that is Easter
Easter is linked with passover, an entirely Jewish holy day. During this time, Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus while Jews celebrate the sparing of the first born, the passing over. Just because a holiday is transformed from one belief to another, doesn't mean the latter also inherits the meaning.
Just as Christmas isn't the actual season of the birth of Jesus, the meaning is still clear for Christians.
You can make the case that these holidays are bastardized, but the customs only made their way into the holidays as a way to bring pagans into the monotheistic religions. The meanings were changed entirely, though some of the symbols remain (trees, wreaths, gifts, eggs, bunnies...etc.)
These origins are interesting for history sake, nitpicking and petty for ulterior motives. The holidays mean whatever they mean to the people celebrating them. I rest on Sunday, I don't worship to sun.
Indeed. The Saxons had their 'Estre' fertility God with eggs and rabbits (both symbolizing fertility), but Jesus Christ was crucified and resurrected around the Jewish passover, which is also in the spring. Everyone is free to celebrate either the pagan gods, Jesus Christ, or the Jewish exodus from Egypt.
This is why I don't celebrate any day other than New Year's Day (and eve) and Friday the 13th. I always take the day off for Friday the 13th for personal partying.
Oh yeah, and July 4th.
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This Easter (Ēostre), don't forget the true meaning of the Holiday
