[Sca-cooks] Coloured eggs

[Elaine Koogler]

that reminds me...red colored eggs were a symbol of good fortune in China, and
were (and probably still are) given at New Years as a wish for good fortune in
the New Year.....

Kiri

johnna holloway wrote:

> Christina Nevin wrote:
> >Wow, those are great eggs Jadwiga! The onion ones are especially lovely.>
> > I'm having this memory spasm about reading somewhere the Romans put eggs in
> > graves, not sure if they were decorated or not. Something about a  Roman
> > child's grave in Germany, around C.4th? And it might have been a goose egg?
> > I'm racking my brain but I can't remember where I read it. Ring any bells
> > with anyone?> Lucrezia
> -----------------------------
> This came from G o o g l e's cache of
> http://www.sv.cc.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp/~plott/month-OsternE.html.
> Easter Eggs... Painted eggs were discovered already in German-Roman
> graves
> of the fourth century. The first report of Easter eggs from the 12th
> century quotes "red
> Easter eggs", probably an allusion to the blood of Christ shed on the
> cross. It was
> forbidden to eat eggs during lent. They were interpreted as a symbol of
> life and
> resurrection (an enclosed grave from which life arises) and as a symbol
> of eternity because
> of their shape (without beginning or end). Artfully painted eggs are
> known since the 16th
> and 17th centuries.
> This may be the story that you remember... There should be more academic
> references
> in the archaeological literature.
> Johnna Holloway  Johnnae llyn Lewis
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Elaine Koogler

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