This article is about painted or chocolate eggs. Easter egg of the Ukrainian variety with the Paschal greeting “Christ is Risen! Easter eggs, also called Eggs norwegian eggs, are eggs that are decorated for the Christian feast of Easter, which celebrates the resurrection of Jesus.
This custom of the Easter egg, according to many sources, can be traced to early Christians of Mesopotamia, and from there it spread into Eastern Europe and Siberia through the Orthodox Churches, and later into Europe through the Catholic and Protestant Churches. A modern custom in some places is to substitute chocolate eggs wrapped in coloured foil, hand-carved wooden eggs, or plastic eggs filled with confectionery such as chocolate. The practice of decorating eggshells is quite ancient, with decorated, engraved ostrich eggs found in Africa which are 60,000 years old. Eggs in Christianity carry a Trinitarian symbolism as shell, yolk, and albumen are three parts of one egg. Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you forever and ever. Sociology professor Kenneth Thompson discusses the spread of the Easter egg throughout Christendom, writing that “use of eggs at Easter seems to have come from Persia into the Greek Christian Churches of Mesopotamia, thence to Russia and Siberia through the medium of Orthodox Christianity.
