Sweet moments with Ms. B

Once upon a time… Oh, actually, it really didn’t go like that. Instead, it can be better understood by enumerating some key points:

The Festival
This celebration of Easter goes back a long time. Its origins can be traced back to the times when religion didn’t exist yet, because, it was a pagan ritual! It was their way of merry making for the return of springtime thus giving due credit to their Goddess of Spring and a festival was held in her honor as told in ancient times of the Anglo-Saxons (early culturally related inhabitants of Britain) around mid-5th century A.D.


The Period
The pagan year usually has four cardinal days (periods) for celebration, that is: fall, midwinter, spring, and midsummer. And traditionally, during the Vernal Equinox (the day or period of days in spring when the days and nights are approximately equal in length), a huge feast was held celebrating a new life or nature resurrection, in another way of saying.


The Name
So many views were told about the name/word “Easter”. First it was taken from the Anglo-Saxon Spring goddess: Eostre. Then, it evolved into “Easter” from the old English version of Spring Festival. As quoted from, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. (1994-1998 edition), it stated "…the term Easter, commemorating the Resurrection of Christ, comes from the Old English easter or eastre, a festival of spring….”


The Egg
Finally, we are now taking up the EGG. These are primitive symbols of FERTILITY. It was learned that Christians adapted it as “…symbol of the tomb from which Christ rose…”. Today, exchange of Easter-colored-eggs means new life and fertility.

There you go, I hope I have enlightened some vague minds about the Easter egg story. As for the Eastern bunny, well, it was supposedly the “…sacred companion of the Goddess of Spring (Eostre)…”.