Happy Easter
This is what happens when you have small children – you dye your kitchen.
Yes, the festival of Easter, goddess of the Spring, is celebrated this time of year with the traditional symbols of fertility, the egg and the rabbit, by the people who settled around the Baltic Sea – the Teutons, Slavs, Finns, Prussians, Letts, et al. It is a festival of plenty after the hardships of winter, with the promise of new growth.
Of course, later groups took the celebration and turned it to other purposes, but I doubt Easter minds.
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It is also 420 Day, when many out here in the West celebrate, err, more herbal things, heh.
So plenty of street festivals around, but don’t go to’em if your employer is prone to random drug testing. Just sayin’ ;).
– Badtux the Non-Herbal Penguin
Ah, yes the 420 festivals, it has been a while. Nice to know the old traditions are being upheld. 😉
Yay. It’s over.
No more kids wanting choccy stuff that’s bad for them, since for financial reasons, the usual garbage that passes for chocolate from the likes of Cadbury, Hershey’s etc get’s even worse at Easter (more sugar and coloring, less cocoa) and the prices for their crap escalates because most people are stupid enough to pay the excessive prices! I did get a nice treat for myself however, that the kids hate (bonus!) 80% cocoa chocolate mini-eggs, from Aldi of all places! And quite nice they are too! One of their German house brands, Moser Roth. 😀 So, Easter wasn’t *all* bad! 😛
Of course, the *actual* reason for the Easter season have long been forgotten (or never known) by most, especially supposed Christians (who almost always get the actual reasons for such things wrong, being the brainwashed automatons many are. Questions are FORBIDDEN you know! Well, you can *ask* but don’t be surprised at the horrified look and the response “you have no faith!” or similar.) It’s a lovely way to escape any responsibility or intelligent thought. *shrug*
It is amazing how many people who think they like chocolate have never actually tasted the real thing. They are in for a shock if they order a chocolate in a Latin American cafe.
Even before I found out about the original celebration of Easter before it was ‘borrowed’ I was bothered about saying ‘Happy Easter’. That would be like Happy Yom Kippur. Most of the celebration is extremely distance and unconnected with the actual holiday.
People are really strange.