Hi culldav,

you asked this question.
I believe there is little to hold Choccy eggs with the Christian observance off easter.

imho, easter is a pagan festival (see ishtah, sp).
It was a fertility festival, held in spring in the northern hemisphere to hope for a good crop that coming harvest season.
A bad crop might mean starvation, so a good crop is very appreciated.

ishtah (sp) was a goddess of corn or something.
The rabbits and eggs symbolise the fertility akin with spring and a new crop.

Which is almost nothing to do with the Christain observance of easter.

Perhaps when christianity was emerging the leaders then (Constance ?) allowed christians to have their religious festival on the same days as existing ones were happenning.
It'ld mean all the religions get their fesitvals over in the same weekend, then it's back to work.
A good functional decision.

It would be great if that topic was moved here now (given it is very much linked to this topic here in this forum) Muso.

At the moment we basically have 1 topic split in half. Hence why people are responding HERE to questions raised over THERE.

It's a tad confusing. I'm just giving my take on this and trying to help.

What do you think .. or should Sprint be the person to ask?

In any case .. I've left a link in that other topic so people are aware that the topic is continuing down here now.

muso wrote on Apr 20^th, 2011 at 3:50pm:


Ahh ok. I didn't know that Muso. My apologies if I've done anything incorrectly here. I was just trying to be helpful given the posts here were responding to the posts over in the other topic ie over ---> http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1303246698