Strange (but real) history of Easter

Easter is weird.

For religious people, it is the most sacred day of the year, Reflection About the central miracle on which Christianity is based.Whenfor child, Side of “A The magic bunny stopped by last night and left a basket full of painted eggs and candies for you. “

present day cEaster celebrations are rooted So many sources—Catholic churches, paganism, Judaism, equinox—it makes sense that it is a bit disjointed over the centuries. Continue reading in an attempt to unravel the mystery of “real” Easter.

Easter (or something like that) has been around for a long time

Feasts, celebrations, and / or holy days around the equinox have existed thousands of years before Christianity.Early Christians borrowed date Easter (and probably the wholeRitually eat bread “ What is known as communion) From tJews who have been observing the Passover festival since at least the 5th century BC. Long before that, the Chinese were celebrating the New Year. TThe true “source” of Easter is probably the final equinox, a perceived astronomical event. Basically from eternity to cultures around the world. After all, it’s the beginning of spring, so who won’t celebrate?

How did Easter get its name?

With his 725 books Time reckoning, Linguist and historian saint Benerable It refers to the Anglo-Saxon Spring Goddess called “Ēostre”. April was named after Eostre and was full of feasts. 1835, Jacob Grimm (Half of the Brothers Grimm who wrote all those fairy tales) Easter claimed to have got its name from the goddess.

Grim was probably wrong.It’s a good theory and there is evidence Pagans worshiped Ēostre, but the consensus among modern historians is that “Easter” is “Christian designation for Easter Week that’s why In AlbisLatin phrase understood as plural Aruba (“Dawn”) And eostarum In Old High German. “

Anyway, when is Easter?

I’ve had many years of debate in my life, but nothing close to a heated debate among Christians about when to celebrate Easter. At least in 195 AD, Pope Victor I has been furious since he attempted excommunication. Quartodecimanism We believe that Easter should always be celebrated on the 14th day of Pascal Moon. Fool! Quintodecimans was clearly right. It’s the 15th day!

Despite the “When is Easter?” Version, the debate is still fierce today. Best efforts of the World Council of Churches.. The details of the controversy are too boring for me to write in detail, However, the main points are as follows. Most Western Christians use the Gregorian calendar to determine the date of Easter. Christians in the Eastern Orthodox Church use the old Julian calendar, so the dates do not match. This year, Stan of the Gregorian calendar will hold Easter on Sunday, April 17th. The Team Julian calendar must wait until April 24th.

Easter secular ritual

Formal Easter religious adherence straightForward. For example, among Catholics, “Go to Mass. Eat the Transubstantiated Meat of the Savior.” (This is the Catholic Church’s answer All, by the way). The On the other hand, the secular characteristics of holidays are as rich, deep and colorful as eggs placed overnight in food coloring.

Why egg?why Colored egg? This is One theory About the connection between Eggs and Easter: Pagans were fascinated by eggs because they thought they were the perfect symbol of a new life on the day of the equinox feast.When Roman Catholic troops invaded and occupied pagan lands, they did not punch pagan eggs. Tradition; they swallowed it. As in the ancient version of Borg, early Christian invaders took in and claimed the part of the pagan culture they could live in (spring holiday eggs) and the part they couldn’t (gender equality). ) Was thrown away.

Some people don’t buy heathens-it thought, and thinks The Egg and Easter Association came from Lent.. Many gave up eggs during the Lent season, so it makes sense for them to eat eggs at Easter. ((((It can also explain all candies. )

Whether the central Christian beliefs were celebrated at Easter (“Our God was killed, but he came back to life, and now we eat his flesh symbolically or actually, depending on your persuasion.”) Is based on pagan mythology. I am. Instead, let’s talk about the picture of an egg: Christians are believed to have borrowed Egg decoration from Persia.. In the early days of the church, Christians in Mesopotamia began to dye Easter eggs red to commemorate the blood shed when Christ was crucified.The epidemic is the epidemic Thankfully, we’re more colorful and celebrating than this, but we’re still doing it today.Early morbid Mesopotamian Christians.

Why rabbit?

Rabbit is different Some think that Easter classics came from paganism.. Rabbits are legendarily fertile, so pThe agans are believed to have associated hares and their fertility with spring and regeneration. ((((Pagan symbolism seems to be as basic as hell, at least as explained by early historians. )

How the character “tThe existence of the Easter Bunny, a perceptual rabbit that delivers a basket of painted eggs to children, is a bit vague, but the first written evidence of the “Easter Hares” is. Germany in the 1600s..Pennsylvania Dutch settlers bring tradition to America It got stuck in the 18th century..

I don’t completely trustHe is an Easter bunny.He / she / they / it’s a globally recognized holiday celebrity, but the background is mesn’t Very well understood..We know All About Santa-the person he lives and is with, his belly looks like a bowl full of jelly when he laughs-but what do we really know?Is he an Easter bunny? Where does he live? Is it Catholic?Where is the rabbit? obtain All those eggs?

Lyrics to one famous song about tHe said the Easter Bunny, “Here comes the Peter Cottontail,” the hut. Except for these lines about t, shed some light on the subjectMotivation for his Easter Bunny: “Maybe if you’re very good, he’ll roll a lot of Easter eggs your way.” It’s not just Santa’s stripping, but “maybe” The word is awkward. Easter bunny getting off the shit or pot.

A brief history of PAAS

PAAS Dye Company is owned by Signature Brands, LLC, but in the early 1900s by William Townley, the owner of a drugstore in Newark, NJ. Invented a colorful water-soluble vinegar dye pellet for dyeing eggs.Despite the fact that food coloring can be mixed with vinegar and water to dye eggs and get better results at about a tenth the price, PAAS has about 10 million Easter egg decoration kits each time. For sale Year.

According to the ferocious Easter Survey commissioned by PAAS companyOf the 49% of Americans decorating eggs for Easter, 56% are interested in “making family memories,” 54% are “looking for fun family activities,” and 53% are “looking for fun family activities.” I want “quality family time”. Surprisingly, “I’m doing all this Easter shit because I feel I have to do that, or I’m going to be a bad dad,” wasn’t on the list.