Show 4 4 at r 4 S 41 49 APT S J V ni A va AA 0 EASTER SYMBOLS mm THROUGH AGES egg and hare have always been connected feast of resurrection a mingling of cel 1 eb rations common to many peoples Pe oplas by MARY gnat 0 YOU ever wonder why we D DO ue ire ir e the egg and the hare HB as symbols of easter why ne e con connect the two tire are F AS old as man himself ahlm elf east tr cr apparently a solar festival con elected the equinox Is in reality a moon the bare la Is the sym hoi bol of the moony the measurer of time and the egg with its ita burled buried germ represents the revival of life itte in the mythology and rell religion glon of the most an peoples both are ased mod blod fitt fin pt people ople have joined thema them in cu carious burlou rlou fah facton ton our feast of the resurrection Is a mingling of the many feasts of many people 4 it had its direct origin in the I of the jem jewish ish passover which christians christiana continued to observe according to established traditions at tin an appointed time in a certain lunar month the lord commanded the jew jem a to make prescribed sacrifices and to eat cat certain foods roast lamb unleavened aed bread and bitter herbs saying it t Is the sacrifice bacri flie ut of the lorda pass pasa oner oer who pasted over the h houses use of the children of israel in egypt when he be smote the Egypt egyptians luns and dell delivered vered our house later to insult the clr cir of their history as a typo type of their d departure apart tire from the land of egypt the egg wasl was made a part of the ft flir bishing of the table alth nith the lamb celebrating the passover Pao vr through the centurion the fundamental of why and hen to celebrate the I 1 noe not changed As a moon ingon besth forthal al we still give thanks for Nal salvation through la in determining ter mining the tun timp ot 0 tho thi festival the J vs As and the eastern church follow the old did lunar which some times brings it before the vernal equinox the vestern church though it adopted tte the bin reckoning t h lie a gregorian of the calendar for other chlup yet llesi to at i moon reek aning lor for lla tex and ana it the flat firs sunday fiffe the full moon which happens or next the 1 satt of march it if lilt alt woon comes on sunday IR I 1 the next sunday thereafter th t flus fixes the dite be tween the tid of atarah and the of april tie in llie lie century jews jeg and irele cele on MIU lav ilav and three emes during ibia century the d ites will aill ih it the holiday period coari eted elji itu easter has been scopes or symbols of the resurrect resurrection lon accounts of the use of easter eggs made interesting many pages of religious history italian easter customs Cu tom emilianne JOm Emil Ulanna lanne gives the following description of an italian practice on easter eve and easter day all the heads beads of fa families milles send great chargers ch argera lull full of hard boiled eggs to the church to get them blessed which the priests perform by making several appointed jp ayers and making great signs of the cross over them and sprinkling them v alth holy water these there blessed i eggs have the virtue of sanctifying sanctify ing the entrails of the body and are the first fat or fleshy nourishment they take tak 0 after the abstinence of lent As soon as the eggs are blessed everyone carries his portion home and mauseth a large table to be set in the best room in the house which they cover with their best linen be strewn with flo flowers W find and place round about it a dozen dishes of meat and the great charger of eggs in the midst ills a very pleasant eight bight to see the tables set forth in the housed of great persons when they expose on the side tables round about the chamber all the plate they have in the house and whatever hat ever else they have that la in rich and curious la in honor of the faster easter feast in the roll of expenses for the royal i household of king edward 1 I there occurs this item for a certain easter sunday four hundred and a half I 1 eggs IS 18 pence these were stained I 1 in boiling or covered with gold leaf and afterwards distributed to the royal household in early days all christians greeted each other at the easter time with the he Stin annex exit lt christ has ris 1 en und tand the response vere christ has indeed risen even now in russia where easter to Is set apart as a time for paying visits as well as for going to church friends greet each other anith w ath the old form I 1 of salutation the lisa lies of peace and a gift of hard boiled egg easter hare everywhere everywhere along with the candy and hard boiled eggs in confectioners confection ers windows we see aee the rabbit or more correctly the tha hare ile he trundles a w wheelbarrow heel barrow filled with eggs or else drags a single egg children are told hares lay faster easter eggs and are sent to the fields to look for them they are also aiso told that babies come in the form of hares the bare the same as the rabbit in symbolism la in fact the type ty q of the moon itself across whose tut 11 endless numbers of nandua have painted the little animal buah ha took the shape of the hare that ho he might feed his hungry fellow creatures and WM was translated into the form of the tha moon and in th form evermore abides I 1 indian mythology says indra disguised guised as a famished pilgrim was praying for food when the hare having baying nothing but himself to sive chiew himself into the fire that he might be rop roasted isted for his benefit out of grat itule indra him to the toned alint other toasts having ideas in common with ith it have been that sacrifices have been done mav aw nv with that the original foods with the exception of the ogg egg have fallen into disuse theae are non essentials the feast retains its original ebar character acter egg always easter symbol the egg as symbol did not originate with and A as not confined to the jews jes but was as common to persians phoeni clans egyptians japanese greeks aud romans homans a as bell as the teutonic tribes of gaul the persians made it represent the triumph of the sun of nature and used it fis as their new year celebration they believed that the world 3 vas as hatched from an egg at the vernal equinox hindus many eastern peoples and romans had it typify the universe the work of the supreme deity the TeL teutonic tonic tribes used it at their ce cec oration la in honor of ostara really ashtoreth rath the egyptian godless goddess of the moon whom they called of spring and from whom we alt the name ao nonn applied to our feast our use of it Is that of a symbol tor for a tyni t bolle idea the egg at all times a symbol teres ancs a threefold three fold told purpose purport food foode and gift Every everywhere here the prescribed manner of use ls lao 0 o boll it hurd hard in some non poisonous statia sta drably red the color of christa christ bloch end and decorato decorate it with cn otto land |