What does the Easter egg symbolize?

Answer 1

The egg has long since been a symbol for resurrection and new life; from the time of the ancient Persians, through Jewish culture, and well incorporated in the Christianity, the egg, a part of the celebrations about the Vernal Equinox, the comming of Spring, a time for planting and new life, has been a subject of wonder and veneration for just about all cultures. It appears in many religions as a critical symbol of new life, of Resurrection. They are almost entirely unrelated to fertility. Women have all but always been considered mere vesssels for something from men. And until Robert Hooke discovered and named the cell using the microscope developed by at least Lippershey, and Janssen in the early 1600s, that was also unclear or rather unseen. Ova does come from Latin meaning egg, but that is incidental to the role of the egg in religious symbolism. When one thinks about symbols, you just about have to drop back to prerecorded history, and try to understand the terror of a total eclipse of the sun. The egg is the symbol for new life, and for resurrection, not fertility. On the other hand, in the middle ages, particularly, in Germany a hare was said to lay eggs, and present them to children. It's not that far from the Easter Egg. The hare was a symbol of fertility, which makes sense in the light of the ability rabbits to breed without a season. Coloring eggs has been raised to an art form in many folk societies; some traditions originated with the religious symbol, but rapidly because commercial by-products in mass societies. And it has been suggested that with beginning in the 20th century, the Easter Egg became a symbol for a second leading time for the sale of chocolate products, and sales at clothing stores, in the United States and much of Europe. The best known use of the Easter Egg is for a West Lawn event at the Whitehouse, in the United States of America.

Answer 2

Its not. Easter eggs are symobls of fertility left over from pre-christian fertility rituals practiced around the time of the spring solstice. The Church (in an effort to convert pagans) changed "the rebirth of the sun" to the "rebirth of the Son" and put Easter on the same day. The other stuff just kept going.

Answer 3

The Easter egg is a symbol of birth and new life. The Easter egg is used during the celebration of Easter as the spring solstice to represent the birth of nature during spring time.

Answer 4

The egg is the symbol of new life, and when Jesus was resurrected, it too was a symbol of new life. No offense to people that don't believe in god. Not trying to be racist!

Answer 5

It symbolizes life.