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Tesseract@Midnight

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I'm an artist and a dancer who recently graduated from college. Imagination is my greatest weapon and fandoms my greatest comfort.
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"what do eggs have to do with Jesus?"

Eggs are actually a really common piece of Christian symbolism for the Trinity. It's a shell, a white, and a yolk, but it's all one egg. Just like how God is made of the Father Son and Holy Spirit.

You know that image that's like, a youth pastor explaining the Trinity with a fidget spinner? It's like that. That was the metaphor every medieval monk used to explain the basics.

Also, like, the legend of Mary Magdalene and her egg trick. Also eggs were forbidden during lent and thus were a special treat for Easter.

This guy ➡️🥚⬅️ is so ingrained in Christian tradition.

According to some legends told in the Eastern Church, Mary Magdalene confronted Caesar about the injustice of Jesus' execution. Once she claimed that he had risen from the dead, Caesar laughed. To prove her point she grabbed an egg and it turned red. That is why Easter Eggs are traditionally red over every other color.

Here are some icons where she is holding the red egg.

Also, rabbits are associated with Easter because of their unusual ability to become pregnant while currently pregnant with a batch of kids. The second birth so soon after the first made it seem like a magical form of conception like the immaculate conception, so rabbit and Mary are interwoven. The tie between rabbits, eggs, and Easter was really solidified in the 18th century.

Mary's Egg Trick

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