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The custom of Easter eggs
According to tradition, every year on Maundy Thursday, housewives throughout Greece prepare buns and traditionally dye red eggs, as the egg symbolizes fertility and creation, while according to others it symbolizes the rebirth of the world and the renewal of nature. In fact, the red color acquires various symbolisms: For some, the red color symbolizes the blood that Christ shed when he was crucified, while for others, the eggs are dyed red as an expression of joy for the happy event of the Lord’s Resurrection and at the same time a deterrent of all evil. According to a tradition from Kastoria, when Christ was resurrected they told a woman and she didn’t believe it and said: “When the eggs I’m holding turn red then Christ will rise too. And they turned red.”
In many areas they called it “The Egg of the Virgin Mary” and kept it in the iconostasis for 1 year, believing that this egg helps to untangle or to exorcise hail and floods. The following year they buried it in the fields, so that they would be fertile, or they put it in the animal pen to bless their fertility.
The eggs are dyed on Maundy Thursday which is the day of the Last Supper, where Christ offered bread and wine as a symbol of His body and blood, ready to be sacrificed to free the world from the bonds of sin.
Part of the custom of Easter eggs is also the tinkering. Before eating them, especially at the Easter table, everyone chooses their own egg and scrambles it with another’s. Whoever has the unbroken egg then scrambles it with the third person’s egg, and so on until the one with the strongest emerges. According to tradition, the egg is a symbol of life and just as it breaks during the hatching process, so did the tomb from which Christ came out.
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