Easter - Spring Holiday

Easter , holiday of Spring

The origin of Easter

On Easter Day the Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Easter Day is on the first Sunday after the full Moon in March. This day is between 22 March and 25 April. The day is later in the calendar of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Osyris

Enlil

Persephone

Eastre, the old northern European pagan goddess of spring and fertility.

Pagans celebrated spring and the beginning of new life with festivals in March and April.

When Christianity became important, the Christian Easter gradually replaced pagan festivals. But we still use today some symbols from pagan spring festivals: flowers and eggs were symbols of new life, and rabbits were symbols of fertility.

But we still use today some symbols from pagan spring festivals: flowers and eggs were symbols of new life, and rabbits were symbols of fertility.

EASTER BUNNY.

• The New Testament tells us that Christ entered Jerusalem on a donkey, but for many years South Americans learned that he entered on a rabbit. This was because the original Spanish missionaries were unable to explain what a donkey was, as the continent had no horses or donkeys.

So they described the animal as having long ears – like a rabbit in fact.)