History of Easter
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Written by mysimply
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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
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In Christian belief, wroted in the New Testament, how Jesus Christ was tormented after having the last supper with his thirteen diciples. How he was crucified during the hanging on the cross and died, or calling Passover. Three days later, they belief that he resurrected from death, and this day call Easter, or the Resurrection Sunday.
For Jewish Christian, they celebrate this traditional for 8 days started on the 14th day of the first month of Jewish year. But Gentile Christian or the not Jewish Christian doesn't want to do that long, they need only on Sunday, which make Easter date change every year.
Firstly, base on the Paschal Full Moon, whose base on lunar tables, was choosed to predict the first Sunday after the first Full Moon after the day that having equal time between day and night or calling Vernal Equinox. But nowaday, we have both Eastern and Western churches who use Julian date and Gregorian date that make the Easter of the Eastern Churches is not the same day as the Easter of the Western Churches.
The Icon of the Easter are the Easter Bunny and the Easter Egg. Those come from the Pagan belief. The Easter name come from the name of the goddess of spring and fertility of Teutonic, Eastre. The bunny is also the sympol of fertility in the Pagan. The Egg will be painted brightly as a sympol of the sun in the spring, Those Icons represent the plentiful of Spring.
But when this tradition was fall upon Christianity, this Easter Egg was changed to represent the re-birth of Chirst. Started with the German who lived in America call Oschter Haws, the bright painted egg were used to an Icon for the Easter. In another Pagan belief, there are Hot Cross Bun, which having X on the bun represented the phases on the moon, but Christian use this sympol as the Holy Cross which used to hang Jesus.
These traditions have passed year over years and become the great memorizable holiday as we know as Easter.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 15 February 2008 )
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