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EASTER SYMBOLS

EASTER SYMBOLS. EASTER SYMBOLS. The W ater According to the traditions, the first person to drink the water of the well will have good fortune. People used to sink the red eggs in the water and sprinkle themslves with it, in order to be protected by illness.

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EASTER SYMBOLS

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  1. EASTER SYMBOLS EASTER SYMBOLS

  2. The Water According to the traditions, the first person to drink the water of the well will have good fortune. People used to sink the red eggs in the water and sprinkle themslves with it, in order to be protected by illness. Followers of Christianity went to the church bringing along their food and wine to be blessed.

  3. The Lamb In the Christian traditions it is the symbol of Jesus Christ who sacrificed Himself for our sins and died inocently on the cross, like a lamb.

  4. The Pascha Women bake a special sweet cream cheese cake for Easter called “pascha”. It is a round shaped cake (following the belief that Jesus’ diapers were round shaped) with a cross in the middle, and decorated with twisted dough on the edges.

  5. In what concerns the “pascha”, the legend says that during one of his preaches, Jesus and his Apostles were lodged by a very hospitable man who squeezed in their bags bread at their departure. When the Apostles asked Jesus when was Easter celebrated, the Saviour told them when they should find bread in their bags. Looking for it, the Apostles found what that man had given them. Since then, women bake pascha for Easter.

  6. The Cross It is the symbol of God’s love and the sacrifice of Jesus Christ to save humankind. The Cross was declared the symbol of Christianity by the emperor Constantine, in the Council of Niceea (325 BC).

  7. The Wine Well known since the ancient times, when after the Flood, Noe grew vine and drank wine. This symbol will find his highest meaning in The Last Supper, when Jesus Christ, initiating the Holly Communion changes them into His Body and Blood, urging us to bring the bread and the wine as our gifts to the Holly Liturgy for His commemoration.

  8. The Red Eggs There are the symbols of Christ’s tomb that opened at His Resurrection. Therefore, when tapping eggs, as well as when Christians greet each other, we say: “Jesus Christ has risen! Truly risen!”. The red dyed eggs represent the blood of Christ, shed on the Cross for the salvation of the world. There is the belief that those who tapp eggs will meet in their afterlife.

  9. The red color represents the purifying fire. According to a belief from Bucovina, the red egg protects us from the evil.

  10. The Red – symbol of blood,sun, fire, love and joy of life; Black- absolutism, steadiness, eternity; Yellow- light, youth, happiness crop, hospitality; colores used for dying eggs, match a certain symbolism: Green- renewal of the nature, freshness, fertility, hope; Blue- the sky, healthy, vitality; Purple- self-control, patience, faith in justice.

  11. Away back, the eggs were wood dyed, but nowadays they were substituted to synthetic and chemical colors. The wood dye used to be prepared after old recipes inherited from one generation to another, following a great diversity of methods and Techniques.

  12. Eggs' decoration It is extremely vast, it uses geometrical, vegetable, animal, hominoid, skeuomorph and religious symbols. Therefore, we can identify a number of different symbols and meanings in the geometrical decorations:

  13. Straight vertical line – life; Straight horizontal line – death; Double straight line – eternity; Rectangular line – contemplation, time and eternity; Double curled line – the bend between life and death; Lightly curled line – water, purification.

  14. The Light of Resurrection It is the symbol of Resurrection, the victory of life over death and Christ’s light in the depths of the darkness of the sin. On the night of Resurrection the believers hold The Light in their hands, brought by a priest from the altar of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre from Jerusalem. The believers keep the rest of the unburnt candle after the sermon and lit it during the year in sorrow and hardships.

  15. “I am the light of the world” says the priest on Easter. “Come and take light”. Everybody enlightens receiving the gifts of the Holly Spirit.

  16. Joy comes from the small thinks of life, silence from soul, warmth from your hearts! Happy Easter! Forgive, love and live in peace!

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