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Lady of the Left
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To my surprise while reading about the Egyptian festival of Sham el Nessim, I found something that may be the original reason for the tradition of decorating eggs at Easter time.
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Another Legend has it that the Goddess Eostre turned a colourful bird into a rabbit and the rabbit then laid coloured eggs, this is where the easter bunny and egg hunts came from and the basis of the Christian festival Easter.
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Although one thing those egg hunts didn't have was chocolate eggs! (which is why our modern day celebrations are the greatest
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Lady of the Left
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Easter Bump!
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*bump* for those heading into the Spring Equinox!
Does anyone decorate eggs? If you do - I, for one, would love to see some photos!
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I'm not sure if they're any good though. I'll put them in the 18+ tags, as I'm a little embarrassed for anyone to see them. WARNING: Adult Content
WARNING: Adult Content
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I am going to do some this weekend ..its an early celebration...I am usually in a hurry so mine are just standard, I will make some black ones for my husband Hee hee
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![]() --- I might actually do some decorating, we always have eggs at home were I will be spending the Easter holiday, and we will have my brothers kids over for Easter. So that combination might lead to some egg painting, I like the whole symbolic idea of eggs and Easter/Ostara. |
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