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To: rawcatslyentist

Easter eggs may not bear a direct lineage to pagan traditions, but instead may be a parallel tradition.

Throughout the world, eggs are seen as symbols of rebirth, but there was a special significance in the Christian tradition. In the early Christian traditions, eggs were thought of as “dairy” products and abstained from during Lent, along with meat.

While there is no early record of the Easter feast in Armenia, the first Christian nation, in Ethiopia, the second nation to become Christian, coloring eggs for the Easter feast was long practiced, and looked at as very important because eggs were a valuable source of protein, so it was a big deal for them.

Connections back to pagan traditions before that are tenuous at best.


41 posted on 04/06/2012 4:56:30 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("It is already like a government job," he said, "but with goats." -- Iranian goat smuggler)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Could you kindly point me to the Bible verses about the egg hiding rabbit?


Maybe you're reading from a different bible than I am.

48 posted on 04/06/2012 8:12:27 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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