RED EGGS FOR EASTER, the history...

Can you immagine Easter in Greece without red eggs on your table?? No!

... But do really know the roots of this meaninful tradition?

If you don't, read our posts today and the next two days, 

we will explain you everything!!!

BEFORE CHRISTIANITY

During Easter Day the egg stands as symbol of the resurrection of Christ, and is universally used as means of Christian greeting and present. The symbolical and church significance of the egg has its roots in the greatest antiquity. Long before Christianity, all the cultured nations of antiquity held the egg to be the symbol of life in all their beliefs and customs. According to heathen cosmogonies, the original world’s chaos was contained in an egg, which broke into two halves, the one forming the sky and the other the earth.

Out of the lower part of the eggCame mother earth.Out of the upper part of the eggArose the high vault of the sky.                               

From the fact that this idea is to be found amongst all nations, one has to conclude that it is a reflection of the primitive belief which constituted the religion of mankind in the remotest antiquity and then universally spread at the time of the dispersion of nations.