IanB 0 Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 Happy Easter Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kay 3,709 Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 Same to you Ian have you had an egg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
slip 1 Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 Happy Easter luv it fooking luv it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Malt 379 Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 Nice one! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Coney 3 Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 Hope you all are enjoying this long weekend pity about the weather. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
snoopdog 1,256 Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 are you religous ian b ????hope you are at church tommorow ,...... .. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rabitin girl 16 Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 Happy Easter Everyone Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Running 7 Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 i am going to sound realy thick here but why do we have choclate eggs? i know about easter but not about the eggs Happy easter all Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ferret_uk 4 Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 Have A Good One Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest bigredbusa Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 A HISTORY OF EASTER and the EASTER EGG Delve into the history and origins of the Christian festival of Easter and you come up with a few surprises. For instance, Easter eggs do not owe their origins to Christianity and originally the festival of Easter itself had nothing to do with Christianity either. A closer look at the history of both Easter and the Easter Egg reveals a much earlier association with pagan ritual and in particular, the pagan rites of spring, dating back into pre history. For us, the ancient rites celebrating the Spring Equinox are most obviously associated with the mysterious Druids and places like Stone Henge, but most ancient races around the world had similar spring festivals to celebrate the rebirth of the year. The Egg, as a symbol of fertility and re-birth, has been associated with these rites from the earliest times. The Christian Festival Of Easter In fact, the festival of Easter is a classic example of the early Christian church adapting an existing pagan ritual to suit their own purposes. The Saxon spring festival of Eostre, was named for their goddess of dawn, and when they came to Britain in about the 5th century AD, the festival came with them along with re-birth and fertility rituals involving eggs, chicks and rabbits. When the Saxons converted to Christianity and started to celebrate the death and the resurrection of Christ, it coincided with Eostre, so that's what the early church called the celebration, Eostre or Easter in modern English. The actual date that Easter falls on every year is governed by a fairly complex calculation related to the Spring Equinox. The actual formula is: The first Sunday after the first full moon following the Spring Equinox is Easter Sunday or Easter Day. This formula was set by Egyptian astronomers in Alexandra in 235ad, and calculated using the same method as the Jews have traditionally used to calculate the feast of the Passover, which occurred at about the same time as the crucifixion. Easter Eggs As well as adopting the festival of Eostre, the Egg, representing fertility and re-birth in pagan times, was also adopted as part of the Christian Easter festival and it came to represent the 'resurrection' or re-birth of Christ after the crucifixion and some believe it is a symbol of the the stone blocking the Sepulchre being 'rolled' away. In the UK and Europe, the earliest Easter eggs were painted and decorated hen, duck or goose eggs, a practice still carried on in parts of the world today. As time went by, artificial eggs were made and by the end of the 17th century, manufactured eggs were available for purchase at Easter, for giving as Easter gifts and presents. Easter eggs continued to evolve through the 18th and into the 19th Century, with hollow cardboard Easter eggs filled with Easter gifts and sumptuously decorated, culminating with the fabulous Faberge Eggs. Encrusted with jewels, they were made for the Czar's of Russia by Carl Faberge, a French jeweller. Surely these were the 'ultimate' Easter gift, to buy even a small one now would make you poorer by several millions of pounds. The Chocolate Easter Egg It was at about this time (early 1800's) that the first chocolate Easter egg appeared in Germany and France and soon spread to the rest of Europe and beyond. The first chocolate eggs were solid soon followed by hollow eggs. Although making hollow eggs at that time was no mean feat, because the easily worked chocolate we use today didn't exist then, they had to use a paste made from ground roasted Cacao beans. By the turn of the 19th Century, the discovery of the modern chocolate making process and improved mass manufacturing methods meant that the Chocolate Easter Egg was fast becoming the Easter Gift of choice in the UK and parts of Europe, and by the 1960's it was well established worldwide. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
csme55ex 2 Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 HAPPY EASTER MATE AND NICE PHOTO Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SNAP SHOT 194 Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 DITTO TO ALL, don't eat to many EGGS. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bill88 6 Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 Happy easter all Quote Link to post Share on other sites
keeper 51 78 Posted March 23, 2008 Report Share Posted March 23, 2008 have a good easter guys and gals and dont forget to post early for xmas :boogie: :boogie : Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jasper65 6 Posted March 24, 2008 Report Share Posted March 24, 2008 The weather's been crap but I just ate all the kids easter eggs so I'm happy ... Have a good one all!! I'm now off to church for the day ..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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