Then, there are the festivities. Oh boy, these are fun. I, myself, still decorate eggs. Some traditions you can never grow out of. For me, Easter symbolizes new life, or rebirth in the spring, which is probably why Jesus wanted to be risen today. Or may hap just why we think of spring that way. You see all of the flowers grow, and decorate eggs, which are like little unborn chickens... Okay, so maybe that's a stretch, but you can see where I'm coming from, aye?
I love the ham on Easter. My family normally makes it very sweet, with brown sugar or something, I'm not sure, but it always tastes really good.
Now, onto the legends about Easter, and about our popular traditions. The Easter Bunny is based from a fertility goddess, who is called Eostre. They say that her name may have been used as inspiration for the title 'Easter.' Eostre is said to have been accompanied by a hare(the Easter Bunny!).
Oh, the ham! Who wants to know about the ham? Okay, here we go. The tradition of the ham came from the older tradition of slaughtering a pig during the fall, and preserving it in salt through winter, even sometimes burying it by the sea. Then, people ate it in the spring.
The tradition and expectation of the eggs is because the egg is the symbol o new life, such as the chick is. So, to jazz it up, the painted them, took them to church, rolled them on the White House lawn, oh yeah. Eggs, eggs, eggs!
Well, Easter always falls on the Sunday after the full moon after the vernal equinox, the spring equinox. I don't really know why it does, but, its in that order if you'd like to know! Easter is always a great holiday to have fun celebrating, so don't pass it up! Go out and enjoy, because my nana always told everyone that the sun always shines on Easter!
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