April 20, 2025

The Magic of Easter

The Magic of Easter
Apple Podcasts podcast player badge
Spotify podcast player badge
RSS Feed podcast player badge
Amazon Music podcast player badge
Castbox podcast player badge
Deezer podcast player badge
Podcast Addict podcast player badge
Podchaser podcast player badge
JioSaavn podcast player badge
Spreaker podcast player badge
Apple Podcasts podcast player iconSpotify podcast player iconRSS Feed podcast player iconAmazon Music podcast player iconCastbox podcast player iconDeezer podcast player iconPodcast Addict podcast player iconPodchaser podcast player iconJioSaavn podcast player iconSpreaker podcast player icon

On this episode of ParaTruth: Reborn, we crack open the colorful shell of Easter and explore the deeper, often forgotten roots of this springtime celebration. From ancient fertility rites and pagan goddesses to modern-day bunnies and baskets, we unravel the threads connecting myth, magic, and mystery. Is there more to Easter than chocolate and church bells? Could the symbols we take for granted carry hidden meanings passed down through the centuries? Join us as we dig into the enchanted origins of Easter and discover the magic that still lingers beneath the surface.


Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/paratruth-reborn--6273542/support.

Thanks for listening!

WEBVTT

1
00:00:03.240 --> 00:00:34.200
Welcome welco Well do Parrot Truth Truth? What's up everybody,

2
00:00:34.240 --> 00:00:37.880
and welcome to a brand new episode of Parrot Truth Reborn.

3
00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:40.560
This is a pre recorded show on one oh seven

4
00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:44.200
point seven FM, New Orleans and United Public Radio Network.

5
00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:48.759
As always, my name is Eric and I'm justin and

6
00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:52.920
today we are diving into the hidden folklore, strange traditions,

7
00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:58.520
and magical mysteries behind our favorite holiday Easter' so right,

8
00:00:58.560 --> 00:01:02.679
not both of us or holiday, but I quite enjoy it.

9
00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:09.040
I feel that hour as in both of ours is Halloween. Yes,

10
00:01:09.959 --> 00:01:13.400
I mean, Easter is a good one. It's just honestly,

11
00:01:13.439 --> 00:01:15.480
I think Easter is one of those ones that has

12
00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:18.599
kind of went to the wayside from when we were kids.

13
00:01:19.079 --> 00:01:22.480
You're kay, I think ever since I mean after Grandma

14
00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:25.920
passed away, Easter just kind of went to the wayside

15
00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:27.760
because we used to have the Easter parties at our

16
00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:31.640
grandparents' house all the time. Yeah, but yeah, I agree,

17
00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:33.200
kind of for the most part, kind of went to

18
00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:36.159
the wayside. But for me, you know, celebrating the resurrection

19
00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:39.159
in Christ and just the usually if it's a nice,

20
00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:41.640
warm day, then it's like for me, the true introduction

21
00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:44.799
to not only spring, but also summer is right around

22
00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:46.879
the corner at that point, so there's a lot of

23
00:01:46.879 --> 00:01:49.439
things to look forward to. But I'll tell you what,

24
00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:51.680
Easter is one of those things that has been more

25
00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:53.640
back in the day, obviously, and I think for a

26
00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:56.560
lot of children, especially maybe some adults, Easter is all

27
00:01:56.599 --> 00:01:59.359
about the candy and the Easter bunnies and all that stuff.

28
00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:02.879
But you know, after coming coming back to faith, it's

29
00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:05.760
kind of grown exponentially for me, so there's so much

30
00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:09.240
more happening, which, of course, the candy and the bunnies

31
00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:11.919
are all still wonderful and I enjoy that stuff as well.

32
00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:15.280
But nonetheless, there is a lot of history and a

33
00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:20.319
lot of mysteries regarding how let's say, Halloween, regarding Easter,

34
00:02:21.960 --> 00:02:26.680
you know, it's it actually has some interesting origins and

35
00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:31.479
it has celebrated various ways around the world. But with

36
00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:33.560
that said, today we're going to be covering a few

37
00:02:33.639 --> 00:02:38.080
different things on this topic, such as where exactly did

38
00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:40.599
the Easter bunny really come from, which is a question

39
00:02:40.919 --> 00:02:46.000
I've always had because you know, like Sai what Another

40
00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:48.599
one is, what do eggs have to do or in

41
00:02:48.599 --> 00:02:51.159
this case, Easter eggs have to do with the resurrection,

42
00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:55.719
and are there any paranormal legends tied to this holiday

43
00:02:56.199 --> 00:02:59.360
of rebirth. Now we're going to get into all of

44
00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:02.639
that and much much more, but I think let's just

45
00:03:02.759 --> 00:03:06.599
start right off the bat with maybe some ancient roots

46
00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:09.080
and pagan origins of the holiday, because I think that's

47
00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:11.479
probably the best place to start. Yeah, for sure.

48
00:03:12.199 --> 00:03:15.960
And now all of these were interesting to me because

49
00:03:15.960 --> 00:03:23.520
I had never heard of Ostara or Estree. But Ostara,

50
00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:26.800
also known as the Spring Equinox, is a Pagan holiday

51
00:03:26.879 --> 00:03:31.400
celebrated around March twentieth or twenty first somewhere in there,

52
00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:34.599
which is why Easter kind of hops around so much

53
00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:35.039
for us.

54
00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:40.439
Hop I actually didn't even do that on purpose.

55
00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:44.759
Marking the beginning of spring and the balance of light

56
00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:49.280
and dark. It symbolizes renewal, rebirth, and the awakening of nature.

57
00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:55.400
Easter or Estra, however you pronounce that, also known as

58
00:03:55.439 --> 00:04:01.159
Star as Ostara or Easter, is a Dramanic guy associated

59
00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:05.000
with spring and dawn and is beloved. They are believed

60
00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:08.280
to be the namesake for the Christian holiday of Easter,

61
00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:13.280
so that's where we get the name from. Hairs, particularly

62
00:04:13.319 --> 00:04:17.879
the white hair, are often associated with fertility, rebirth and

63
00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:23.759
the lunar cycle, making them fitting symbols for a spring festival. Eggs,

64
00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:31.920
especially painted or decorated, represented new life potential and cyclical nature,

65
00:04:32.439 --> 00:04:36.800
the cyclical nature of the earth, aligning with the themes

66
00:04:36.879 --> 00:04:42.160
of Ostara. And today, many of these pagan influenced traditions,

67
00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:45.240
like egg hunts and the Easter Bunny are still part

68
00:04:45.319 --> 00:04:49.439
of Easter celebrations, even though the primary focus of Easter

69
00:04:50.439 --> 00:04:53.040
is the Christian celebration of christ resurrection.

70
00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:54.839
Like Eric had brought.

71
00:04:54.639 --> 00:05:02.560
Up now like, I don't think the typical person associates

72
00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:07.879
any of these with with Easter, at least those that

73
00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:11.600
come from a Christian background, because most of that is

74
00:05:12.120 --> 00:05:12.600
the pick.

75
00:05:14.839 --> 00:05:18.800
Beliefs, right. No, it's it's it's interesting to see how

76
00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:21.759
it was something I noticed by the way, quick rabbit

77
00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:25.319
trail here also, no pun intended. It's just something we

78
00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:28.600
say on the regular. But I was listening to last well,

79
00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:30.519
in this case, it'll be two weeks ago. Two weeks

80
00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:33.000
ago listening to our Prayer episode, and I realized how

81
00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:37.079
often I say during our show how something is interesting,

82
00:05:37.519 --> 00:05:39.240
And I do want to say that that's not just

83
00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:41.680
like a thing that I do like a lot of

84
00:05:41.680 --> 00:05:45.360
this stuff actually is very interesting to me. I think

85
00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:46.800
I need to pull back on the interesting part a

86
00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:47.600
little bit, so.

87
00:05:47.920 --> 00:05:51.160
I say interesting or fascinating way too much. Even in

88
00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:56.600
in like test texts to you or Shelley, you know,

89
00:05:56.720 --> 00:05:59.639
you guys will send me something and I don't know

90
00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:00.519
what to responds.

91
00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:05.000
I just respond interesting or because it is. But I

92
00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:07.079
get in trouble sometimes when I text people because I'm

93
00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:09.279
I could be very short answered, and I shortly answer

94
00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:11.560
you a lot of the time, which is like cool

95
00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:16.800
or yay or nice, so they all of which is true.

96
00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:19.279
But I don't know how. You know, I don't want

97
00:06:19.279 --> 00:06:22.399
to go and nice and then reiterate everything you just

98
00:06:22.399 --> 00:06:25.800
told me, just to anyway, glad.

99
00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:31.480
You don't care, well, I'll have you go into the

100
00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:33.560
Easter bunny and magical creatures.

101
00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:37.319
Heck, yeah, all right, so Easter bunny and magical creatures.

102
00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:39.519
There are quite a few different creatures that are actually

103
00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:44.839
associated with this holiday or this time of year now

104
00:06:44.839 --> 00:06:49.279
on various mythologies and folk clature of folkloric traditions. The

105
00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:52.920
hair is often associated with fertility, love, and other world

106
00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:55.680
and the other world, and sometimes even as a symbol

107
00:06:55.680 --> 00:07:00.160
of witchcraft or a messenger between worlds with specific the

108
00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:04.600
cultural interpretations varying across regions. And you might notice that,

109
00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:08.519
like considering the fact that this is a messenger between

110
00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:11.439
worlds and even is symbol of witchcraft. This is there's

111
00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:13.839
only one of many creatures at Ashire like that. The

112
00:07:13.879 --> 00:07:16.879
fox is another one. The crow is a big one

113
00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:21.720
that is popular amongst not just various witchcraft, but also

114
00:07:24.279 --> 00:07:27.319
things like uh, I just said in mind, my mind,

115
00:07:27.319 --> 00:07:34.759
but I lost it, Viking Nordic Nordic faiths and things

116
00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:39.720
like that. Uh, the outdoors mythology Norse. Yeah, yes, that

117
00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:42.040
was what I was looking for. So we see the

118
00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:46.279
number of various belief systems that actually use animalspers I mean,

119
00:07:46.399 --> 00:07:50.360
Christianity is another one they use, uh specifically the ravens,

120
00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:56.160
crows and the dove birds all birds mostly, and the

121
00:07:56.240 --> 00:07:58.800
lamb and the lion. The lamb and the lion. Yes,

122
00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:04.040
wolves are mentioned as well. It's interesting that, I mean,

123
00:08:04.079 --> 00:08:05.879
it's just just how I feel like a lot of

124
00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:10.959
these faiths really associate or use animals to help interpret

125
00:08:10.959 --> 00:08:13.600
things and help us understand things because we as humans

126
00:08:13.639 --> 00:08:15.839
are so intrigued by those creatures and kind of like

127
00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:18.000
when we hear, oh, this person's like a lion or

128
00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:21.439
that person's like a wolf. We immediately, you know, gravit

129
00:08:21.480 --> 00:08:24.120
a day to what that might mean, which and I

130
00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:29.120
don't know, is cool not interesting? Cool?

131
00:08:30.680 --> 00:08:36.120
Well, one thing in you know, the Pagan faith, the

132
00:08:36.799 --> 00:08:40.480
all of these animals are supposed to represent one of

133
00:08:40.519 --> 00:08:43.039
the gods or they are the messengers for the gods

134
00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:47.480
and stuff like that, where in Christian faith it's more

135
00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:54.799
like metaphorical, right right.

136
00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:58.399
So now let's sump into this. Folks are various countries,

137
00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:02.919
for example, so one is like Irish folklore. In particular,

138
00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:06.759
hairs in Ireland are mysterious creatures associated with the other

139
00:09:06.919 --> 00:09:11.080
world and the subject of legends, songs and stories, and

140
00:09:11.159 --> 00:09:15.720
white hairs are considered rare and touched by primordial spirits.

141
00:09:15.960 --> 00:09:19.159
Another rabbit trail. I saw a pure black duck today

142
00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:22.360
while I was driving out driving about today. I've never

143
00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:27.279
seen a black duck, a pure black, pure black. It

144
00:09:27.360 --> 00:09:29.840
was wild, dude. They are like there are two white ducks.

145
00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:32.000
There was like a black and white duck, and then

146
00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:35.320
there's just a pure black duck. I've never seen one before.

147
00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:41.759
It was kind of cool anyway. In Japanese folklore, hairs

148
00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:46.120
are associated with the moon and lunar New Year, symbolizing rebirth,

149
00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:51.759
the natural life cycle, and self sacrifice in and in

150
00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:57.759
Islamic folklore. The el Norege, a mythical creature from Islamic folklore,

151
00:09:57.960 --> 00:10:01.120
is described as a yellow hair like animal with a

152
00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:05.720
single black horn, which is not really to be traveled with.

153
00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:08.639
I mean, I probably wouldn't if I saw a rabbit

154
00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:13.600
with a horn. It's kind of creepy. And then the

155
00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:17.039
auster Hase or the Easter hair is a of course

156
00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:21.240
central figure in Easter bunny tradition, originating in the eighteenth

157
00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:24.759
century Germany, which was brought to America by German immigrants

158
00:10:24.759 --> 00:10:28.159
who settled in Pennsylvania, where they introduced the custom of

159
00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:31.200
egg laying hairs, which if any of you know anything

160
00:10:31.240 --> 00:10:34.679
about rabbits of any type, they don't lay eggs, So

161
00:10:34.759 --> 00:10:37.559
that's kind of an interesting thing, right.

162
00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:40.399
I wouldn't eat the chocolates that they lay either, so

163
00:10:40.559 --> 00:10:41.399
just FYI.

164
00:10:44.120 --> 00:10:46.399
But as we can see, like throughout various cultures, they

165
00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:51.440
all have very similar they all relate to each other,

166
00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:55.039
they all have very similar aspects to what the rabbit represents,

167
00:10:55.399 --> 00:11:00.840
and primarily is that it represents a simple every birth

168
00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:05.000
and the natural life cycle, which again also is something

169
00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:09.080
that is not just popular but is literally the standard

170
00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:12.919
in the Christian belief system as well of Easter. So

171
00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:15.360
that is something to kind of consider because when we

172
00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:17.399
look at a lot of the holidays, a lot of

173
00:11:17.399 --> 00:11:21.960
the Christian holidays especially, they've all had pagan organ origins

174
00:11:23.559 --> 00:11:27.159
and we see how that has adapted as Christianity had

175
00:11:27.159 --> 00:11:32.399
grown stronger and stronger on a yearly basis since it

176
00:11:32.559 --> 00:11:33.799
first showed up.

177
00:11:36.200 --> 00:11:40.200
Well, I mean that's that was kind of the what

178
00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:52.120
was Christianity to get the attention or the the to convert?

179
00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:53.879
Sorry, that's what the word I was looking for.

180
00:11:54.039 --> 00:12:00.360
To convert Pagans by adapting their own beliefs into Christianity.

181
00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:07.919
And it does shock me though that they lasted this long.

182
00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:18.960
But many Christians today will be flippant with these traditions.

183
00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:21.000
They don't want to practice them, and they do not

184
00:12:21.120 --> 00:12:22.120
like people that do.

185
00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:25.759
Some not all. So yeah, no, for sure that there

186
00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:27.879
are plenty like and I know I feed myself who

187
00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:31.759
refuse to celebrate Christmas or Easter. There's nothing wrong with

188
00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:36.159
that either. Yeah, there's nothing wrong to it. I think

189
00:12:36.159 --> 00:12:40.320
the issue is when those individuals try to tell others

190
00:12:40.360 --> 00:12:44.440
that they're wrong for celebrating such things, which is a

191
00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:47.960
whole nother like literally can get into a whole different

192
00:12:47.960 --> 00:12:52.720
topic on that. No, but we are that tons of times.

193
00:12:53.639 --> 00:13:00.159
Yeah, but yeah, it's one of those things that has

194
00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:01.240
gone through the years and.

195
00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:02.279
It's just fat it's just.

196
00:13:03.559 --> 00:13:10.279
Ah, I can't think of another word, so I'll just

197
00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:13.080
leave it at that. It's one of those things that

198
00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:16.360
that baffles my mind. Will put it that way, that

199
00:13:17.039 --> 00:13:23.639
we've we've gone so long with keeping these traditions and thing.

200
00:13:23.399 --> 00:13:26.440
Goes for for Halloween.

201
00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:34.279
Easter, Christmas even and and even Thanksgiving, even though you know,

202
00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:40.200
there's more to the history than that that Native Americans

203
00:13:40.279 --> 00:13:43.240
and the Pilgrims got together and ate a meal.

204
00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:45.200
Uh, there's a lot of stuff.

205
00:13:44.919 --> 00:13:47.799
That went on during that time that nobody talks about,

206
00:13:47.879 --> 00:13:55.080
and there's a lot of dark history. But it's it's

207
00:13:55.919 --> 00:13:58.320
it is one of those things that I think about

208
00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:00.759
a lot when when we do shows like this.

209
00:14:03.279 --> 00:14:08.639
All right, so we've gone over the Easter bunny. Now.

210
00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:12.519
Something that I didn't include in here because it doesn't

211
00:14:12.799 --> 00:14:16.399
have Easter origins was the jackalope that did come up

212
00:14:16.440 --> 00:14:22.840
in my research in hairs that that are mythical or magical.

213
00:14:25.080 --> 00:14:28.879
But it again that that's one of those ones that

214
00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:31.480
it's like, I don't think we mean to include include it,

215
00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:34.600
and I don't think we'll ever do an entire episode

216
00:14:34.679 --> 00:14:40.120
on the Jackalope either, just personally speaking, I guess. But

217
00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:46.600
egg symbolism and magical practices, now this I saw a

218
00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:51.240
couple that I did know about. There were plenty of

219
00:14:51.279 --> 00:14:53.480
others that I had never heard of, but I included

220
00:14:53.519 --> 00:14:58.039
the ones that I have heard of because it would

221
00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:02.080
make sense more sense to me. The tradition of decorating

222
00:15:02.080 --> 00:15:06.960
eggs for spring festivals and religious celebrations has ancient roots,

223
00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:12.960
with evidence of decorated ostrich eggs found in Africa dating

224
00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:16.879
back sixty thousand years. Think about that sixty thousand years,

225
00:15:17.879 --> 00:15:22.519
and practices in cultures like ancient Persia and even Mesopotamia,

226
00:15:23.720 --> 00:15:29.240
which I believe Persia is now Iraq for part of Iraq,

227
00:15:30.360 --> 00:15:30.960
I think.

228
00:15:33.960 --> 00:15:34.200
Now.

229
00:15:34.279 --> 00:15:39.440
In various cultures, eggs hold folklore, folkloric significance in rituals

230
00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:47.279
and divination practices, often symbolizing life and fertility and new beginnings,

231
00:15:47.960 --> 00:15:51.960
with egg whites used for divination by interpreting the shapes

232
00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:55.919
formed when dropped into water, similar to like tea leaves,

233
00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:05.320
so oomancy or ovomancy. This form of divination, also known

234
00:16:05.360 --> 00:16:10.159
as egg magic, involves interpreting the shapes formed by egg

235
00:16:10.200 --> 00:16:14.120
whites when dropped into water to predict the future. Had

236
00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:15.320
you ever heard of that before?

237
00:16:16.039 --> 00:16:17.960
I have? Have you? Yeah?

238
00:16:19.799 --> 00:16:24.200
Egg curing, I have heard of this one. In some traditions,

239
00:16:24.279 --> 00:16:26.960
eggs are used in healing practices, with the egg being

240
00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:30.440
rubbed over the body of a patient to diagnose or

241
00:16:30.480 --> 00:16:35.559
relieve illness. I have also seen it where after rubbing

242
00:16:35.639 --> 00:16:40.120
it all over wherever it is, after they detect it

243
00:16:40.799 --> 00:16:44.000
and they, I think, rub it even more in that area,

244
00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:49.240
they'll smash the egg to represent that that's being.

245
00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:56.200
Cured, whatever it is. And the third one is protection.

246
00:16:57.000 --> 00:16:59.799
Eggs can be used as talismans to protect homes or

247
00:16:59.840 --> 00:17:07.079
in individuals from negative influences or malevolent spirits. I didn't

248
00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:08.680
do research on this part, but.

249
00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:14.160
I believe that is part of why faberge eggs are

250
00:17:14.200 --> 00:17:18.640
a thing. Okay, but I don't remember for sure, but yeah,

251
00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:22.039
I actually didn't know that people used actual eggs as

252
00:17:22.119 --> 00:17:28.920
talismans to protect homes or themselves from negative influences. It's

253
00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:30.599
kind of weird to me, but I guess I kind

254
00:17:30.599 --> 00:17:33.400
of get it at the same time, but I don't

255
00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:36.200
really fully understand how it works. You know, like when

256
00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:39.680
you think about various crystals. For example, we have things

257
00:17:39.680 --> 00:17:45.960
like obsidian, which is believed to absorb negative energies into itself,

258
00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:50.160
which protects the wearer, whereas we you have things like

259
00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:53.160
any sort of white crystals. You know, they tend to

260
00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:57.720
reflect or deflect or even just cleanse the area around

261
00:17:57.759 --> 00:18:03.039
you to protect you from those types of energies and spirits.

262
00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:06.960
Eggs is not one that usually would line up with

263
00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:12.200
that kind of perspective, but I do see how there

264
00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:14.599
are a number of different cultures that use stone eggs

265
00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:18.599
or marble like eggs as a representation of some sort

266
00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:23.759
of protection or just a representation of like new beginnings

267
00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:24.480
and fertility.

268
00:18:27.400 --> 00:18:32.559
Well, a practice that I've heard of you might have

269
00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:34.319
heard of it and you just didn't realize it is

270
00:18:34.519 --> 00:18:38.559
putting an egg in a glass of water. And then

271
00:18:39.480 --> 00:18:41.079
remember if you put it in the sun, or you

272
00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:42.480
just put it in a corner. I think you just

273
00:18:42.519 --> 00:18:45.000
put it in a corner of the home, especially if

274
00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:48.240
you're feeling any negative energy or anything like that.

275
00:18:49.400 --> 00:18:52.160
And then when the egg floats, the.

276
00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:54.039
Energy has been absorbed and you have to throw the

277
00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:56.759
egg away, and not just throw away, you have to

278
00:18:56.759 --> 00:18:57.759
get it out of the house.

279
00:18:58.039 --> 00:19:01.480
Yeah, which is pretty typical with anything that you're doing

280
00:19:01.480 --> 00:19:05.559
in terms of the purification rituals of cleansing a house.

281
00:19:06.119 --> 00:19:08.880
Same thing with like sage. People will say that you

282
00:19:08.920 --> 00:19:10.759
have to flush stage down a toilet or you need

283
00:19:10.839 --> 00:19:14.480
to bury it somewhere after kusing a home, you know

284
00:19:14.519 --> 00:19:16.720
all the ash and stuff. Same thing if you use

285
00:19:16.759 --> 00:19:20.279
mojo bags or anything like that. So I see why

286
00:19:20.319 --> 00:19:22.160
you would have to throw it away or to get

287
00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:26.599
rid of it as both a literal way of getting

288
00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:28.599
rid of the energy, but also has a symbolic practice

289
00:19:28.599 --> 00:19:30.960
to remove it from their home and from you and

290
00:19:31.039 --> 00:19:31.720
your space.

291
00:19:35.480 --> 00:19:40.960
And I'm trying to think of others that I've heard of.

292
00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:48.599
That's the main one I've heard of for protection. So

293
00:19:49.279 --> 00:19:56.200
you've heard of ovomancy, Like, what have you seen, Like,

294
00:19:56.640 --> 00:19:58.720
have you seen any videos on people doing it or

295
00:19:58.720 --> 00:19:59.880
anything like that or using it?

296
00:20:00.519 --> 00:20:03.480
I've not. I mean I've watched videos in which they

297
00:20:03.480 --> 00:20:06.400
show portions of it, but not like a full video

298
00:20:06.519 --> 00:20:11.240
of the actual interpretation of the egg whites. But yeah,

299
00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:13.119
I have heard of it, and I've write things on it,

300
00:20:13.160 --> 00:20:18.079
and I've watched like many documentaries on how it's done.

301
00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:21.440
It's very similar to like reading tea leaves at the

302
00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:23.960
bottom of a tea cup, you know, something like that.

303
00:20:24.960 --> 00:20:26.799
It's not much different. So, I mean, the person who's

304
00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:31.519
predicting it obviously has studied various methods to interpret such things,

305
00:20:31.640 --> 00:20:34.039
the same thing as like a dream interpreter or someone

306
00:20:34.039 --> 00:20:36.960
who interprets the leaves. Like you and I probably couldn't

307
00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:38.720
just go and do that because we wouldn't know what

308
00:20:38.759 --> 00:20:40.880
the hep we're looking at other than oh, there's egg

309
00:20:40.920 --> 00:20:43.599
white in water or there's tea leaves at the bottom

310
00:20:43.599 --> 00:20:47.119
of a cup. So you know, there's experienced individuals who

311
00:20:47.119 --> 00:20:51.200
spent many years studying that partict the form of divination,

312
00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:54.039
and it's something that they typically do. And of course

313
00:20:54.039 --> 00:20:55.920
there's people who actually get paid to do that kind

314
00:20:55.960 --> 00:21:00.680
of thing, which of course I understand. I'm also like,

315
00:21:01.160 --> 00:21:03.200
what that's weird? Why zero?

316
00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:10.240
But hey, you know, it's just like anything else, palm reading, reiki,

317
00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:12.960
things like that, Like there are things that we don't

318
00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:16.960
fully understand or recognize as to how it is.

319
00:21:16.880 --> 00:21:20.240
Interpreted or why it interprets a certain way. And I

320
00:21:20.240 --> 00:21:22.599
think the problem with some of these things is the

321
00:21:22.599 --> 00:21:25.319
interpretation is only from one person. Like it's not like

322
00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:28.440
a scientific method where you have multiple people interpreting this

323
00:21:28.480 --> 00:21:30.920
thing and then you're choosing the one that seems to

324
00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:33.759
align the best. Like like if you have like three people,

325
00:21:34.119 --> 00:21:36.720
three or four people interpreting the same egg white and

326
00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:40.160
two of them happen to align with the same interpretation,

327
00:21:40.279 --> 00:21:43.039
and the other two are in two separate places, well,

328
00:21:43.039 --> 00:21:44.799
then's like, oh, it must be the two who are

329
00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:48.680
you know, linked? That must be the correct interpretation. And

330
00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:50.319
I think that's probably we have with any sort of

331
00:21:50.400 --> 00:21:54.000
form of divination like that, you're basically just putting all

332
00:21:54.039 --> 00:21:56.880
of your We've actually talked about this with a couple

333
00:21:56.920 --> 00:22:00.240
of guests of ours recently, relatively recently, I think was

334
00:22:00.279 --> 00:22:04.200
probably this past summer or fall, uh where I forget

335
00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:06.759
her name, but she was telling us that when you're

336
00:22:06.839 --> 00:22:12.839
someone's doing divination or interpretating or interpreting something like tea leaves,

337
00:22:13.319 --> 00:22:16.519
you're just leaving it up to that in person's interpretation,

338
00:22:16.680 --> 00:22:19.440
and that interpretation could be right, it could be wrong,

339
00:22:19.480 --> 00:22:23.119
It could just be who knows, whatever. You take that

340
00:22:23.240 --> 00:22:26.160
same exact cup to somebody else and they interpret it different,

341
00:22:27.000 --> 00:22:28.799
and that's you know, kind of the issue I think

342
00:22:28.799 --> 00:22:32.519
with some of these forms of divinations. So but nonetheless,

343
00:22:32.559 --> 00:22:35.839
I mean it is interesting. I think it's you know,

344
00:22:36.519 --> 00:22:44.400
from my un educated mind, it's weird. But nonetheless it's

345
00:22:44.599 --> 00:22:46.720
it is interesting. And I am using the word interesting

346
00:22:46.759 --> 00:22:49.039
here because it is you know, one other thing I

347
00:22:49.079 --> 00:22:51.839
wanted to to kind of touch base here on with

348
00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:58.240
uh with eggs egg symbolism, because Christians actually still use

349
00:22:58.279 --> 00:23:01.799
the symbolic uh nate of the egg as well. People think, oh, well,

350
00:23:01.880 --> 00:23:03.920
Christians don't use it because that's a pagan thing, but

351
00:23:03.960 --> 00:23:07.480
it's not entirely true. In fact, Christians for many, many years,

352
00:23:08.440 --> 00:23:11.799
especially in the early ages of Christianity, would actually paint

353
00:23:11.880 --> 00:23:14.599
eggs red to represent the blood of Christ that was

354
00:23:14.640 --> 00:23:17.160
shed upon the cross, and they would hide it for

355
00:23:17.319 --> 00:23:20.880
children to run around and try to find, just like

356
00:23:20.960 --> 00:23:24.319
we do Easter econs today. The other thing that is

357
00:23:24.400 --> 00:23:28.119
very interesting is that the egg represents in a sense

358
00:23:28.400 --> 00:23:32.000
the resurrection of Christ because just like Christ, who was

359
00:23:32.079 --> 00:23:34.279
in a grave, rolled away the stone and kind of

360
00:23:34.319 --> 00:23:37.240
broke forth from the grave, so too does the egg

361
00:23:37.720 --> 00:23:41.839
break its shell, and forth comes the yoke the new life,

362
00:23:42.680 --> 00:23:44.640
or I should say the bird in this case, or

363
00:23:44.640 --> 00:23:47.599
whatever creature's hatching from to b an elligator. I don't

364
00:23:47.599 --> 00:23:53.640
know anything, but it's it's often interpretated or used in

365
00:23:54.079 --> 00:23:58.599
Christian faith systems as well to represent some sort of,

366
00:23:58.599 --> 00:24:02.680
you know, a certain powerful idea regarding the resurrection and

367
00:24:02.880 --> 00:24:03.799
beginning of new life.

368
00:24:05.839 --> 00:24:10.839
Now, all I can think of now is like of

369
00:24:10.960 --> 00:24:14.319
moms going to make poached eggs and then they're like, oh,

370
00:24:14.359 --> 00:24:17.640
I gotta look this up for what's the symbolism behind this?

371
00:24:19.799 --> 00:24:23.279
But it doesn't necessarily say hot water, just as water,

372
00:24:23.359 --> 00:24:25.519
So I don't know if it has to be hot,

373
00:24:25.559 --> 00:24:30.680
and that's you know, the shape, because it is usually

374
00:24:30.759 --> 00:24:35.160
a little clear or at least cloudy. Right, So yeah,

375
00:24:35.160 --> 00:24:37.119
I don't know, but.

376
00:24:43.000 --> 00:24:43.519
I get.

377
00:24:45.039 --> 00:24:51.480
Has the you'd mentioned Christianity using animals, but is the

378
00:24:51.559 --> 00:24:53.480
rabbit mentioned at all?

379
00:24:54.519 --> 00:24:54.640
No?

380
00:24:55.279 --> 00:24:59.400
Okay, so maybe that was just one of the ones

381
00:24:59.440 --> 00:25:04.319
that they really truly took from Paganism to bring into Christianity.

382
00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:08.759
All right, So I'm not even sure how Like, I

383
00:25:08.759 --> 00:25:12.599
don't even know how Christianity you would have adopted the uh,

384
00:25:12.960 --> 00:25:16.440
the rabbit for anything, right, I don't. I don't know.

385
00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:19.000
It's probably just like I see's like some of these

386
00:25:19.039 --> 00:25:22.000
things just they're for children, straight and simple. You know.

387
00:25:22.440 --> 00:25:24.960
It's it's easy to use a rabbit because they're cute

388
00:25:24.960 --> 00:25:27.720
and fluffy, and everyone loves rabbits because of that reason.

389
00:25:28.480 --> 00:25:31.880
And that's you know, you're the type of person who

390
00:25:31.960 --> 00:25:33.279
likes the taste of rabbit instead.

391
00:25:33.640 --> 00:25:41.440
But you know, aside from that, I had never heard

392
00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:46.160
about the church painting eggs red to represent the blood

393
00:25:46.200 --> 00:25:46.559
of Christ.

394
00:25:46.599 --> 00:25:47.640
That's interesting too.

395
00:25:49.440 --> 00:25:52.279
I don't feel as a kid, I would have been well,

396
00:25:52.519 --> 00:25:54.759
I take that back. My favorite color is red, but

397
00:25:54.920 --> 00:25:59.279
I don't feel I would have been liking searching for

398
00:25:59.319 --> 00:26:01.440
the blood of instead.

399
00:26:01.160 --> 00:26:02.279
Of just Eastern heggs.

400
00:26:04.680 --> 00:26:08.039
But it has created a good tradition for families to

401
00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:16.880
do things together, right, if nothing else during the holidays, Well,

402
00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:20.079
why don't you go into the resurrection myths? But I

403
00:26:20.119 --> 00:26:24.799
felt you could probably go more into the Christian myths

404
00:26:24.799 --> 00:26:28.160
more than the ones that are of pagan origins.

405
00:26:29.079 --> 00:26:35.440
Yeah. Sure so. While many cultures and religion's feature stories

406
00:26:35.440 --> 00:26:39.079
of figures returning from the dead, the Christians reaction story

407
00:26:39.119 --> 00:26:43.799
of Jesus is unique in its emphasis on a historical event,

408
00:26:43.839 --> 00:26:47.759
and I want to highlight historical event and its central

409
00:26:47.839 --> 00:26:50.960
role in Christian theology, which distinguishes it from a myths

410
00:26:51.079 --> 00:26:57.400
that often focus on cyclic or symbolic returns. Now again,

411
00:26:57.440 --> 00:26:59.519
I want to just real quick touch based on the

412
00:26:59.559 --> 00:27:05.759
history doorcal event, because there is well so one thing

413
00:27:05.759 --> 00:27:08.960
I really love about theology when it comes to the

414
00:27:09.000 --> 00:27:12.960
Christian faith is this idea of the term maps. Map

415
00:27:13.039 --> 00:27:20.240
stands for manuscripts, archaeology, prophecy, and scripture, and when those

416
00:27:20.359 --> 00:27:25.440
four things align, it reveals a truth. And so we

417
00:27:25.480 --> 00:27:30.200
could see in mythology or I'm sorry, in the manuscripts

418
00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:35.720
that Christ rose from the dead, that he died and

419
00:27:35.799 --> 00:27:40.359
rose from the dead. Then we have archaeology which revealed

420
00:27:40.359 --> 00:27:44.359
that same evidence that indeed, there have been other things

421
00:27:44.400 --> 00:27:48.400
either written or items found that lead straight or point

422
00:27:48.440 --> 00:27:53.039
straight or directly to the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ.

423
00:27:53.599 --> 00:27:55.880
We have prophecies, of course, throughout the scripture, and not

424
00:27:55.960 --> 00:28:00.319
just scripture alone, but there are some we call like

425
00:28:00.359 --> 00:28:05.279
apocrypha type type writings. They have also prophesied of Christ's

426
00:28:05.359 --> 00:28:11.279
death and resurrection. And the scripture or statistics is another

427
00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:16.079
one that people often use, and that's the simple fact

428
00:28:16.880 --> 00:28:21.119
that the both the statistics and the scriptures align to

429
00:28:21.160 --> 00:28:23.599
share that same proof and the same evidence that we've

430
00:28:23.599 --> 00:28:27.480
already found with the archaeology and the manuscripts and the prophecies.

431
00:28:28.519 --> 00:28:30.880
So you know, a lot of people think, oh, you know,

432
00:28:31.039 --> 00:28:34.799
Jesus's death and resurrection is just fictional Jesus. It's amazing

433
00:28:34.839 --> 00:28:37.559
how many people believe that Jesus himself never even lived

434
00:28:37.680 --> 00:28:41.279
even as just a person, let alone God. But it's

435
00:28:41.319 --> 00:28:44.880
a simple fact that there's You can ask any historian

436
00:28:44.920 --> 00:28:46.920
and they will tell you that truth, even if they

437
00:28:46.920 --> 00:28:50.759
don't believe in the Christian faith. So that's important first

438
00:28:50.759 --> 00:28:58.240
and foremost. Also, unlike any resurrection story, the historical and

439
00:28:58.240 --> 00:29:02.119
spiritual significance of Jesus's death was done as a willing

440
00:29:02.240 --> 00:29:04.920
sacrifice for the sins of the world and anyone who

441
00:29:05.000 --> 00:29:07.759
chooses to place their faith in Jesus as the one

442
00:29:07.799 --> 00:29:11.680
true God, author of creation, and savior of humanity. And

443
00:29:11.720 --> 00:29:14.759
it is written in the scripture that there is no

444
00:29:15.039 --> 00:29:17.960
name under heaven by which man can be saved except

445
00:29:17.960 --> 00:29:20.559
for one, and that is Jesus Christ. And you can

446
00:29:20.599 --> 00:29:24.160
look at every other faith throughout the world, and that

447
00:29:24.279 --> 00:29:26.200
a single one will tell you how to be saved

448
00:29:26.200 --> 00:29:28.519
by a single name. They'll tell you that you have

449
00:29:28.599 --> 00:29:30.400
to work toward it. You have to pray, you have

450
00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:32.000
to work hard, You've got to do this, do that.

451
00:29:32.559 --> 00:29:35.039
And the scriptures tell us, the Christian scriptures tell us, no,

452
00:29:35.119 --> 00:29:37.200
you don't. You have to believe in Jesus that he's

453
00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:40.160
your Lord and savior, and everything else is done. There's

454
00:29:40.200 --> 00:29:42.960
nothing to be worked, nothing that has to be paid for.

455
00:29:43.119 --> 00:29:45.079
Jesus did it all. And I think that's a really

456
00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:49.319
important and strong difference between the Christian faith and some

457
00:29:49.400 --> 00:29:51.000
of these other ones that are about to go into

458
00:29:51.279 --> 00:29:54.519
It is a rectur direction. Story of the Christian Faith

459
00:29:54.680 --> 00:29:59.240
is vastly different. So with that said, there are a

460
00:29:59.240 --> 00:30:01.839
few other reservres and the stories, one in particular is

461
00:30:01.839 --> 00:30:06.079
Isis and Osiris, which is ancient Egypt. Now, in this story,

462
00:30:06.119 --> 00:30:10.279
Osiris is killed and resurrected by his wife Isis. But

463
00:30:10.400 --> 00:30:15.640
the story is primarily symbolic and how do we say

464
00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:26.559
it again, cyclical cyclical words man. And then we have Romulus,

465
00:30:28.680 --> 00:30:35.200
not like the recent Alien movie, but similar, which is

466
00:30:35.200 --> 00:30:38.359
of Roman mythology. And in this case Romulus, which is

467
00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:40.960
the legendary king of Rome, is said to have been

468
00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:45.559
born from a virgin much like our Jesus and conceived

469
00:30:45.599 --> 00:30:49.519
by the god Mars, which is very different. And his

470
00:30:49.640 --> 00:30:53.240
death and resurrection are part of Roman mythology, of course.

471
00:30:54.000 --> 00:30:57.759
And then we have Dionysus, which is Greek mythology, and

472
00:30:57.799 --> 00:31:02.160
Dionysus is the god of and revelry, who is said

473
00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:05.160
to have been killed and resurrected, and his story is

474
00:31:05.240 --> 00:31:09.079
part of once again Greek mythology. And we see things

475
00:31:09.160 --> 00:31:11.799
like this here and there, But a lot of this

476
00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:17.839
is very they're either random, like random in terms of

477
00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:21.880
why they're killed and resurrected, or they're very selfish in

478
00:31:21.960 --> 00:31:29.799
some ways, such as simply being of symbolic and cyclical nature.

479
00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:33.640
There's no real reason for the death of resurrection except

480
00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:37.799
that it happened. But nonetheless, you know, we see very

481
00:31:37.799 --> 00:31:41.279
similar stories throughout various pace. We see that there are

482
00:31:42.640 --> 00:31:47.400
versions of the Great Flood, for example, and Buddhism, just

483
00:31:47.480 --> 00:31:50.200
as we see in the Christian faith. And then we

484
00:31:50.319 --> 00:31:54.359
see various events like that throughout all the different religions

485
00:31:54.359 --> 00:31:57.720
that seem similar or related in some sense. And I

486
00:31:57.720 --> 00:32:00.839
think there's a reason to that. I think it's therefore,

487
00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:08.559
you know, specifically to kind of help read through the

488
00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:11.640
the basically the wheat and the chaf, what's good and

489
00:32:11.640 --> 00:32:14.039
what's bad, and find the people who are true believers

490
00:32:14.079 --> 00:32:16.480
versus the ones who are not. And that seems a

491
00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:19.440
little weird, you know, a little like confusing, but nonetheless

492
00:32:19.440 --> 00:32:23.240
it's a thing. But yeah, you know, resurrection stories have

493
00:32:23.279 --> 00:32:26.400
always been really interesting, and of course resurrection is naturally

494
00:32:27.079 --> 00:32:29.680
the most important thing when it comes to Easter that

495
00:32:29.720 --> 00:32:32.960
we consider, and not just in the fact that Christ

496
00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:36.240
where it rose, but it's again a moment of rebirth.

497
00:32:36.240 --> 00:32:40.319
Where we're talking this is after after winter, which is

498
00:32:40.359 --> 00:32:43.400
a primary example of just death. Right. Fall is the

499
00:32:43.440 --> 00:32:48.119
representation of things dying. Winter is kind of the death season,

500
00:32:48.680 --> 00:32:52.319
and then Easter is this representation of rebirth where everything

501
00:32:52.559 --> 00:32:55.160
blooms and comes back to life, refreshed and a new

502
00:32:55.880 --> 00:33:00.279
So even if you're not a follower of Christ, many

503
00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:05.200
people will still use this time to kind of metaphorically

504
00:33:05.240 --> 00:33:10.200
and in sometimes in some place times literally renew their

505
00:33:10.240 --> 00:33:13.680
own lives, you know, take a fresh start, start over,

506
00:33:13.839 --> 00:33:16.440
you know, let go of the past and move forward

507
00:33:16.599 --> 00:33:18.240
into the present in the future.

508
00:33:21.319 --> 00:33:24.920
Well, one thing that I will say about the people

509
00:33:24.960 --> 00:33:28.640
claiming that Jesus wasn't real is because Jesus wasn't really

510
00:33:28.680 --> 00:33:31.440
his name. It's just what he goes by in the Bible.

511
00:33:31.599 --> 00:33:35.160
Because of I believe it was the Romans that gave him,

512
00:33:35.359 --> 00:33:36.720
or maybe it was the Jews to give him the

513
00:33:36.799 --> 00:33:38.720
name because it means Messiah, Is that right?

514
00:33:40.680 --> 00:33:45.680
Yeah, but his name was Yeshuah, which is translated to

515
00:33:46.799 --> 00:33:51.799
Joshua and then Jesus. So it is very much a

516
00:33:54.559 --> 00:33:58.519
modern interpretation of the original Hebrew. Okay, in this case

517
00:33:58.559 --> 00:34:00.839
even Armaics, because the New tests were was written in

518
00:34:01.559 --> 00:34:04.920
Armaic as opposed to the Old Testament, which is written

519
00:34:04.920 --> 00:34:11.039
in Hebrew and Greek. Scer written in Greek. But yeah,

520
00:34:11.079 --> 00:34:15.280
so you know his name was indeed Jesus. The Romans

521
00:34:15.960 --> 00:34:19.039
did put a sign, little plaque at the top of

522
00:34:19.079 --> 00:34:23.599
his crucifix of his cross that read here's Jesus, King

523
00:34:23.639 --> 00:34:26.159
of the Jews, as kind of a slap in the face,

524
00:34:26.800 --> 00:34:30.280
kind of showing the Jewish people like they're basically mocking him, saying, oh,

525
00:34:30.320 --> 00:34:31.960
he's the king of the Jews. Well, here he is

526
00:34:31.960 --> 00:34:34.880
hanging on this cross, not realizing that they were literally

527
00:34:34.920 --> 00:34:37.360
giving him the title that he's always claimed he was.

528
00:34:38.360 --> 00:34:40.159
But beyond that because not just king of the Jews,

529
00:34:40.199 --> 00:34:44.039
but king of the universe, you know, king of Heaven,

530
00:34:44.679 --> 00:34:48.840
which many people that day actually end up learning. There

531
00:34:48.880 --> 00:34:52.199
is a man on the cross, two criminals on either

532
00:34:52.199 --> 00:34:54.199
side of him, and the one to his left actually

533
00:34:54.519 --> 00:34:57.079
believes in Jesus in that very moment, as Jesus is

534
00:34:57.079 --> 00:35:01.239
about to die, and Jesus says, truly, I tell you today,

535
00:35:01.239 --> 00:35:04.000
you'll be in paradise with me. And we see also

536
00:35:04.159 --> 00:35:09.000
Roman soldiers when in particular, and this isn't necessarily biblical,

537
00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:15.400
but more of a I want to say historical, but

538
00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:19.519
it's believed through some evidence and I can't tell you

539
00:35:19.559 --> 00:35:24.880
which that the man who thrust the spear in the

540
00:35:24.960 --> 00:35:30.119
Jesus' side after Jesus died and out came water, suddenly

541
00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:34.840
became a believer because of the way he committed his

542
00:35:34.920 --> 00:35:37.760
spirit to God and the way the earth shook and

543
00:35:37.800 --> 00:35:40.480
the cloud sky went dark. So there's a lot of

544
00:35:40.480 --> 00:35:42.960
events that happened in that moment that turned a lot

545
00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:45.920
of people away from this on belief into full belief.

546
00:35:46.440 --> 00:35:48.280
And of course a lot of the events would follow

547
00:35:48.320 --> 00:35:52.320
after that, after Jesus' resurrection that would just literally birth

548
00:35:52.639 --> 00:35:55.360
the Christian faith. And spark a new movement.

549
00:35:57.480 --> 00:36:02.199
Okay, and something I've never been clear on I'm sure

550
00:36:02.239 --> 00:36:09.079
you probably can clarify, is are we celebrating justice resurrection

551
00:36:09.320 --> 00:36:10.679
or death and resurrection.

552
00:36:10.960 --> 00:36:16.000
We are celebrating his death and resurrection. Some will argue

553
00:36:16.039 --> 00:36:19.000
what the celebration part is that of his death. I

554
00:36:19.039 --> 00:36:27.320
think it's it's more of a mourning like.

555
00:36:25.519 --> 00:36:29.920
Like we do in normal ceremonies of death today.

556
00:36:30.159 --> 00:36:32.320
In a way, you know, it's like so you have

557
00:36:32.360 --> 00:36:36.519
to remember when Jesus died, he was roughly thirty three

558
00:36:36.599 --> 00:36:40.239
years old, and it was about three years into his ministry,

559
00:36:40.480 --> 00:36:44.360
and everything Jesus did was set up that he would

560
00:36:44.360 --> 00:36:47.000
eventually be placed on the cross. He knew from the beginning,

561
00:36:47.000 --> 00:36:49.880
and he prophesied about it over and over again into

562
00:36:49.920 --> 00:36:54.159
him believed him. So when he did eventually die, everyone

563
00:36:54.280 --> 00:36:58.880
was shook to the core. In fact, the disciples at

564
00:36:58.880 --> 00:37:03.400
the time, I mean even when Jesus was taken first

565
00:37:03.639 --> 00:37:07.239
in chains and pulled away, the disciples just split. They dispersed.

566
00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:09.960
After his death. They didn't come back together. They were

567
00:37:10.199 --> 00:37:14.960
they didn't want anything to do with his teachings because

568
00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:18.519
their savior there, who they believed was God, was gone

569
00:37:19.079 --> 00:37:21.800
and they didn't think he'd come back. So this was

570
00:37:21.840 --> 00:37:24.360
a very dark time, which this would have been like

571
00:37:24.440 --> 00:37:30.280
Friday night, and typically a day in the Jewish calendar,

572
00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:33.199
if I'm not mistaken, starts at night time, so roughly

573
00:37:33.239 --> 00:37:38.119
midnight or so, or maybe he's like somewhere between ten

574
00:37:38.159 --> 00:37:42.199
pm and twelve pm. But anyways, when he died, and

575
00:37:42.239 --> 00:37:46.119
he died roughly around three pm on Friday night or afternoon,

576
00:37:46.840 --> 00:37:53.639
people scattered. They were afraid. They thought that the Pharisees

577
00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:55.880
and the Roman guards would come down on them heavy

578
00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:58.480
and take them on to custody as well. And then

579
00:37:58.519 --> 00:38:00.760
of course we have all night Friday, all day and

580
00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:06.440
all night Saturday and then Sunday morning. The resurrection and

581
00:38:06.480 --> 00:38:08.320
the reason why we celebrate it now is because the

582
00:38:08.360 --> 00:38:12.480
whole reason we have the resurrection and the renewal of

583
00:38:13.159 --> 00:38:17.440
life and life eternal, if we believe, is because he died.

584
00:38:17.519 --> 00:38:19.599
And if he didn't die, then that resurrection could have

585
00:38:19.599 --> 00:38:24.159
never happened. So the whole reason Christianity even exists is

586
00:38:24.239 --> 00:38:30.480
due to the death first and foremost, right, Well, I

587
00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:32.920
always thought that that's what the case was.

588
00:38:33.239 --> 00:38:39.320
You know, we're not just celebrating his life from dying,

589
00:38:39.440 --> 00:38:46.280
but also him coming back from the dead. But as

590
00:38:46.320 --> 00:38:51.880
of lately, I've been trying to think, like, is it

591
00:38:51.960 --> 00:38:54.000
supposed to be both or is it supposed to be

592
00:38:54.159 --> 00:38:55.119
just one.

593
00:38:55.440 --> 00:38:58.760
I mean, Easter itself is a celebration of his resurrection.

594
00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:04.119
Good Friday, which happens the Friday prior to Easter, is

595
00:39:04.519 --> 00:39:08.760
the celebration or remembrance of his death. So you know what,

596
00:39:08.840 --> 00:39:11.119
on Eastern Morning, we're not thinking about his death anymore.

597
00:39:11.280 --> 00:39:13.880
We're not celebrating the death, or we're celebrating the resurrection.

598
00:39:14.079 --> 00:39:18.880
So in that case, Easter itself is other resurrection only. Okay,

599
00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:21.119
though I feel.

600
00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:27.079
Good Friday was not the best name to represent the

601
00:39:27.159 --> 00:39:30.559
death of a Messiah, but uh.

602
00:39:30.840 --> 00:39:35.960
Good Friday comes from a more historical significance in return

603
00:39:36.119 --> 00:39:40.840
in regard to the passover. Okay, but nonetheless, one will

604
00:39:40.960 --> 00:39:46.599
argue that it's Good Friday because again, if he hadn't died,

605
00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:49.199
he would do right.

606
00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:58.000
Yeah, huh, very very interesting. I'm gonna have to start

607
00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:00.599
looking up some new words. Just keep it missionary in

608
00:40:00.639 --> 00:40:01.119
front of us.

609
00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:02.679
Yeah.

610
00:40:02.760 --> 00:40:05.800
I wanted to go over some of this other folklore

611
00:40:05.840 --> 00:40:10.000
that you had come up with, and since you put

612
00:40:10.079 --> 00:40:13.119
it in there, I'll have you go over. It's it's

613
00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:15.440
one of those things that I think we need to

614
00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:15.840
share it.

615
00:40:17.159 --> 00:40:20.119
Wait wait, wait, wait, am I missing something. It's at

616
00:40:20.119 --> 00:40:22.440
the very top under sea. Oh the top Okay, I

617
00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:23.920
was like, wait a second, what are we talking about?

618
00:40:25.039 --> 00:40:31.920
All right? Under sea? Here we go. So yeah. Aside

619
00:40:31.960 --> 00:40:36.400
from the supernatural fact of Jesus' resurrection, Easter has often

620
00:40:36.639 --> 00:40:40.880
been associated with the banishing of witches in Europe. In

621
00:40:40.960 --> 00:40:44.000
Northern Europe folklore in particular, Easter is seen as a

622
00:40:44.079 --> 00:40:48.840
time to banish witches by lighting ulster fuer or in

623
00:40:48.880 --> 00:40:52.239
other words, easter fires in Germany, which are believed to

624
00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:56.920
scare away witches, which is kind of similar in a

625
00:40:56.960 --> 00:41:01.519
way to the bonfires that will on Halloween night to

626
00:41:01.880 --> 00:41:07.360
ward away evil spirits. Now in Sweden, folklore states that

627
00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:11.480
at Easter, which is fly to the island of Blakula,

628
00:41:12.679 --> 00:41:15.639
which I think is house pronounced in the Baltic Sea,

629
00:41:15.960 --> 00:41:19.679
to feast and dance with the devil himself, and some

630
00:41:19.719 --> 00:41:22.800
traditions even hold that little girls would dress in rags

631
00:41:23.079 --> 00:41:25.880
and going from door to door with a copper kettle

632
00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:29.800
said were said to be a way of scaring away

633
00:41:29.880 --> 00:41:33.599
witches who would fly to the German Mountain the Thursday

634
00:41:33.599 --> 00:41:42.519
before Easter to Cavort with Satan. And I don't understand

635
00:41:42.599 --> 00:41:45.119
how we went from.

636
00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:50.000
Celebrating the life or death in life of Christ to

637
00:41:51.159 --> 00:41:55.960
which is there there be working with Satan on Heaster

638
00:41:56.840 --> 00:41:58.719
and I believe I'm assuming.

639
00:41:58.440 --> 00:42:02.119
This is after the death of Jesus when this all

640
00:42:02.280 --> 00:42:08.119
was being practiced. But yeah, I mean a lot of

641
00:42:08.119 --> 00:42:16.840
this again, these are again mythologies that I think even

642
00:42:16.840 --> 00:42:21.159
to this day, to some extent, are held in Northern Europe.

643
00:42:21.400 --> 00:42:24.000
European folklore and folklore as we know as one of

644
00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:26.320
those things. I mean, we have it everywhere, like it

645
00:42:26.400 --> 00:42:29.280
all originated more or less from Europe, came over to

646
00:42:29.280 --> 00:42:31.840
the Americas, and even the America's had their own folklore,

647
00:42:31.880 --> 00:42:35.119
like you know where we have the dog man and

648
00:42:36.199 --> 00:42:41.840
things like the Frogland Loveland frog monster, a frogman, I

649
00:42:41.840 --> 00:42:47.000
should say, Loveland frogmen, amongst many other creatures here. The

650
00:42:47.039 --> 00:42:49.480
Wind to Go is another one that's very much a

651
00:42:49.719 --> 00:42:54.440
folkloric tale here in America. So folklore extensive, various various

652
00:42:54.440 --> 00:42:57.480
different things, but often witches is one of those things

653
00:42:57.480 --> 00:42:59.800
that we're not talking about like the modern witch, you know,

654
00:42:59.800 --> 00:43:02.960
we're we're talking about what people believed whiches were, which

655
00:43:02.960 --> 00:43:06.760
were these evil entities or beings that associated with the

656
00:43:06.760 --> 00:43:10.559
devil and did his bidding in many cases often believed

657
00:43:10.559 --> 00:43:13.960
to be immortal to some extent. And it's in particular

658
00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:18.159
why there were so many burnings of which is in

659
00:43:18.199 --> 00:43:21.280
Europe and then hangings here in America during the whole

660
00:43:21.719 --> 00:43:25.719
uh fearful witch trial time because people just didn't know

661
00:43:25.840 --> 00:43:30.440
or understand, uh, the the the practices, and not to

662
00:43:30.480 --> 00:43:33.000
mention that many of the practices weren't even happening. A

663
00:43:33.000 --> 00:43:38.360
lot of these people who who were murdered weren't even

664
00:43:38.519 --> 00:43:42.559
actual like practicing, which is when they were just romant

665
00:43:42.559 --> 00:43:46.840
people that you know, unfortunately were pointed at.

666
00:43:47.079 --> 00:43:52.480
And yeah, well, and I think that's why when we

667
00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:57.679
were under Paratruth Radio we kind of delved into the

668
00:43:57.719 --> 00:44:00.639
Salem witch Trials and named it the.

669
00:44:02.400 --> 00:44:06.320
Was it the Beginning of Communism in America? Beginning of

670
00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:07.480
American Communism?

671
00:44:07.559 --> 00:44:13.320
Yeah, that was the title. So we are definitely gonna

672
00:44:13.360 --> 00:44:17.960
have to do another Salem episode, which trials in general

673
00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:21.719
I think is on my list, So we'll have to

674
00:44:21.760 --> 00:44:28.119
delve into a lot of that. Okay, So I think

675
00:44:28.639 --> 00:44:32.440
the last part of this episode it'd be fun to

676
00:44:32.480 --> 00:44:37.280
go over some not so well known facts of Easter.

677
00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:40.559
Yeah, i'd say mostly not well known. Some of them

678
00:44:40.559 --> 00:44:43.119
are probably known, but it's funn the less. There's twenty

679
00:44:43.400 --> 00:44:45.639
maybe just not known to me. Yeah, yeah, let me

680
00:44:45.679 --> 00:44:47.159
go through them and we'll see what you know and

681
00:44:47.199 --> 00:44:49.519
what you don't know. But yeah, I have twenty five

682
00:44:49.760 --> 00:44:55.119
facts here, some of which are pretty interesting. So number

683
00:44:55.119 --> 00:45:00.559
one and this is, I mean, this is probably pretty obvious,

684
00:45:00.599 --> 00:45:05.760
but eggs used to be colored with natural ingredients, meaning

685
00:45:06.400 --> 00:45:09.800
that left over onion peels, tree bark, and even flower

686
00:45:09.840 --> 00:45:13.679
petals were used as key ingredients to dye eggs. And

687
00:45:13.719 --> 00:45:16.719
this is something you can still do today. In fact,

688
00:45:16.760 --> 00:45:19.639
people can actually use onion skin to dye their Easter

689
00:45:19.760 --> 00:45:24.920
eggs a various yellow or yellowish brown color. Probably not

690
00:45:25.039 --> 00:45:27.400
as easy as just dipping and die like we do nowadays,

691
00:45:27.480 --> 00:45:30.280
or panting with a marker, but nonetheless I feel that

692
00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:33.480
would affect the taste of the egg. No, because of

693
00:45:33.519 --> 00:45:37.599
the shell protecting it. If you eat it, yeah, if

694
00:45:37.639 --> 00:45:40.000
you eat it. I thought that was the point. I

695
00:45:40.079 --> 00:45:43.400
really don't know. I mean, I I've decorated eggs and

696
00:45:43.440 --> 00:45:45.760
I've never eaten them. I don't I mean really back then,

697
00:45:45.880 --> 00:45:49.199
back then, I now, like, obviously, hard boiled eggs are

698
00:45:49.199 --> 00:45:52.840
regular eggs, right, I don't know, it's always been weird

699
00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:57.440
because when you die an egg, the dye tends to

700
00:45:57.519 --> 00:46:01.360
seep through the all and of itself. So I agree, like,

701
00:46:01.360 --> 00:46:04.559
if you're using on dandy powder would definitely do that

702
00:46:04.599 --> 00:46:07.119
to the egg as well. But I also don't know

703
00:46:07.159 --> 00:46:11.480
if these eggs were hard boiled and oh, yeah, that's right,

704
00:46:11.559 --> 00:46:14.760
So I don't know if that was a thing. Number two,

705
00:46:14.920 --> 00:46:18.400
This one's fun. The original Easter hair would judge kids

706
00:46:18.400 --> 00:46:21.679
to see if they were naughty or nice. So another

707
00:46:21.719 --> 00:46:28.880
Samsch clause. Yeah, the date of Easter changes every year,

708
00:46:30.920 --> 00:46:34.360
which is interesting because what I find interesting about that one,

709
00:46:34.679 --> 00:46:40.360
at least when we're talking about the Christian faith system.

710
00:46:40.679 --> 00:46:43.880
Obviously Jesus wasn't resurrected on a different day over and

711
00:46:43.920 --> 00:46:46.800
over a kad. It was just one particular day. So

712
00:46:46.920 --> 00:46:51.360
this is just a celebration. I'm like, I'm like Christmas,

713
00:46:51.360 --> 00:46:53.519
which happens on the twenty fifth every year for a celebration,

714
00:46:53.679 --> 00:46:56.880
Easter is one of those that always changes, and I'm like,

715
00:46:56.920 --> 00:47:01.960
Halloween always hapens on thirty first, right, Number four, there

716
00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:11.679
are religious connections between Easter and pastel colors, I believe, Ope, nope,

717
00:47:11.679 --> 00:47:14.639
it's not gonna let me check. But basically other than

718
00:47:14.719 --> 00:47:17.000
just spring, I mean, pastel colors tend to represent spring

719
00:47:17.039 --> 00:47:21.199
the most because of the bright various colors that would

720
00:47:21.199 --> 00:47:23.840
see during spring, like the greens and the pinks of flowers,

721
00:47:23.880 --> 00:47:27.719
stuff like that. But there's also a religious symbolism for Lent,

722
00:47:27.920 --> 00:47:31.599
Good Friday, and Easter as well. Purple, for example, is

723
00:47:31.639 --> 00:47:38.119
a very strong one for Easter resurrection, the resurrection. Number

724
00:47:38.199 --> 00:47:42.079
five the most expense. Can you guess the most expensive

725
00:47:42.159 --> 00:47:48.800
chocolate Easter bunny cost? The cost the most expensive chocolate

726
00:47:48.840 --> 00:47:57.199
Easter bunny twenty earlier. You're a little low, real like

727
00:47:57.599 --> 00:47:59.760
I thought I was gonna be way over a little

728
00:47:59.760 --> 00:48:04.559
by lot. So the answer is forty nine thousand dollars

729
00:48:04.920 --> 00:48:09.639
Holy crime. Ay yeah. Yeah. It also contained five hundred

730
00:48:09.639 --> 00:48:14.440
and forty eight thousand calories, So yeah, you don't eat

731
00:48:14.480 --> 00:48:17.639
that in one sitting, otherwise you're good for the entire year.

732
00:48:19.440 --> 00:48:22.440
You'll end up with diabetes for sure.

733
00:48:24.079 --> 00:48:28.199
Number six. Before Easter baskets, children would put their eggs

734
00:48:28.239 --> 00:48:32.679
and they had to filled with straw. That makes sense

735
00:48:33.320 --> 00:48:38.360
why we use the grass for Easter eggs. Yep, one

736
00:48:38.400 --> 00:48:44.159
hundred percent. Seven. The average shopper spends around one hundred

737
00:48:44.199 --> 00:48:50.599
and sixty nine dollars and seventy nine cents during Easter. Well,

738
00:48:50.639 --> 00:48:54.480
there's probably a primarily on candy too, but it's estimated

739
00:48:54.519 --> 00:48:57.840
that twenty point eight billion dollars was spent on Easter

740
00:48:58.000 --> 00:49:05.280
of twenty twenty three, two years ago. So holy, I

741
00:49:05.360 --> 00:49:07.599
think this is kind of obvious. But Easter is the

742
00:49:07.639 --> 00:49:15.239
oldest Christian holiday on record. Even prior to Christmas, we

743
00:49:15.280 --> 00:49:19.760
already talked about eggs being died representing the blood of Christ,

744
00:49:20.039 --> 00:49:24.159
so we can pass on that one. Here's one justin.

745
00:49:24.719 --> 00:49:28.440
Do you eat chocolate? Yeah, okay, do you prefer milk

746
00:49:28.519 --> 00:49:33.039
chocolate or dark chocolate? Dark chocolate? Interesting? So number ten.

747
00:49:33.159 --> 00:49:37.519
Most adults prefer milk chocolate to dark chocolate. But we're

748
00:49:37.559 --> 00:49:41.280
also a kid at art, so it makes sense altho.

749
00:49:41.280 --> 00:49:43.519
I don't know what kid likes dark chocolate over milk chocolate.

750
00:49:43.960 --> 00:49:48.880
Yeah, that's that's interesting. I know Shelley prefers milk chocolate

751
00:49:48.920 --> 00:49:49.800
over dark chocolate.

752
00:49:49.920 --> 00:49:54.800
Okay, here's an interesting one for those in the US.

753
00:49:55.480 --> 00:50:00.519
Good Friday is only honored in some States. Good Friday

754
00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:04.039
is the major holiday for all Catholics. Only twelve out

755
00:50:04.079 --> 00:50:08.679
of fifty states considered that Friday before Eastern actual federal holiday.

756
00:50:09.280 --> 00:50:11.079
Most of the country will just still go to work on.

757
00:50:11.039 --> 00:50:17.199
Good Friday, now, Ash Wednesday. Is that a part of Easter?

758
00:50:17.559 --> 00:50:20.880
Or is that it's not apartment the part of Lent? Okay,

759
00:50:26.119 --> 00:50:29.039
so giving eggs, which kind of talks about this little bit.

760
00:50:29.119 --> 00:50:32.079
But giving eggs is a symbol of rebirth in many cultures,

761
00:50:32.199 --> 00:50:34.039
So that's actually giving an egg to somebody.

762
00:50:34.039 --> 00:50:36.840
And I do recall like when for kid, I don't

763
00:50:36.880 --> 00:50:38.440
know what faith it was, better, I do recall us.

764
00:50:38.559 --> 00:50:42.840
In some systems, an egg would be offered to someone

765
00:50:42.920 --> 00:50:46.440
who is pregnant or trying to become pregnant as a

766
00:50:46.519 --> 00:50:53.599
symbolic way of fertility, to basically make a good luck time. Yeah.

767
00:50:54.039 --> 00:50:58.400
Number thirteen Americans will consume more than sixteen million jelly beans,

768
00:50:58.920 --> 00:51:07.440
and about fifteen million of those will be enjoyed by myself. Okay,

769
00:51:07.440 --> 00:51:11.159
this is weird. Number fourteen. Pretzels are linked to Easter too,

770
00:51:12.800 --> 00:51:16.280
So supposedly it's because the twists of the pretzel look

771
00:51:16.360 --> 00:51:20.679
like arms crossed in prayer. You can pay homage to

772
00:51:20.760 --> 00:51:23.480
the sweet treat. I've never thought of a pretzel being

773
00:51:23.519 --> 00:51:26.880
sweet and all it stands for. By making these chocolate

774
00:51:26.920 --> 00:51:29.599
pretzels treats. Oh, we can make chocolate pretzels treats as

775
00:51:29.639 --> 00:51:35.119
a form of prayer. The Easter bunny didn't always lay eggs.

776
00:51:36.400 --> 00:51:38.599
In fact, that Easter bunny never laid eggs because Easter

777
00:51:38.679 --> 00:51:41.000
bunnies don't lay eggs, but this one does, you know,

778
00:51:41.079 --> 00:51:44.679
for the holiday. The fluffy bunny stems from an Anglo

779
00:51:44.800 --> 00:51:49.199
Saxon festival of Easter, which featured a spring goddess who

780
00:51:49.480 --> 00:51:52.480
used the rabbit to represent fertility, as we've discussed. And

781
00:51:52.519 --> 00:51:55.239
of course it wasn't until the Germans settled in Pennsylvania

782
00:51:55.519 --> 00:51:58.800
in seventeen hundreds, who decided to ease the bunny that

783
00:51:58.880 --> 00:52:02.960
lays eggs here in America. You know, the one thing

784
00:52:03.000 --> 00:52:05.719
that I never really fully understood is exactly how the

785
00:52:05.760 --> 00:52:10.159
Easter or how the bunny and the eggs correspond, Like

786
00:52:10.320 --> 00:52:14.360
why that happened? Why? Yeah? Why? They're right? Yeah?

787
00:52:15.599 --> 00:52:19.280
And I didn't come across anything in looking through all

788
00:52:19.280 --> 00:52:21.639
this research in the notes that I came up with

789
00:52:21.960 --> 00:52:24.000
that really explains it.

790
00:52:24.159 --> 00:52:29.119
Yeah, I didn't find anything either. Number sixteen. Buying a

791
00:52:29.119 --> 00:52:32.800
new outfit for Easter stems from a superstition back in

792
00:52:32.840 --> 00:52:35.440
the mid eighteen hundreds in New York. People believed that

793
00:52:35.480 --> 00:52:38.159
buying new clothes to wear on Easter would bring them

794
00:52:38.159 --> 00:52:44.480
good luck for the rest of the year. Just another

795
00:52:44.480 --> 00:52:49.480
way for Americans to spend money. The world's largest chocolate

796
00:52:49.519 --> 00:52:53.599
egg was made in Italy, number seventeen, and it happened

797
00:52:53.719 --> 00:53:00.119
to be to measure thirty four feet and was one

798
00:53:00.280 --> 00:53:05.239
point zero five inches in length and weighed Oh I'm sorry,

799
00:53:05.239 --> 00:53:07.719
thirty four feet and one point five inches in length.

800
00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:12.519
So would that be like thirty five point five anyway,

801
00:53:13.039 --> 00:53:19.280
it weighed approximately fifteen and seventy three pounds. Yeah, that

802
00:53:19.400 --> 00:53:23.840
math doesn't make sense to me, does it? Sensible? Who

803
00:53:23.880 --> 00:53:31.199
wrote this article? I'm sending an email? Oh goodness, um,

804
00:53:31.639 --> 00:53:33.440
let's see. I'm not gonna read all twenty five of these.

805
00:53:33.440 --> 00:53:37.920
Actually some of them are like what so? Decorating eggs

806
00:53:38.000 --> 00:53:44.159
comes from a Ukrainian tradition. Apparently, the ornate eggs were

807
00:53:44.199 --> 00:53:48.239
called bisanskas, which were made by using wax and dyes.

808
00:53:48.320 --> 00:53:51.159
And it wasn't until Ukrainian immigrants came to the US

809
00:53:51.239 --> 00:53:57.880
that the colorful custom actually caught on here. Okay, during

810
00:53:57.920 --> 00:54:00.599
medieval times, a very different game was played with eggs

811
00:54:02.559 --> 00:54:05.480
in this case, like can you imagine throwing eggs at

812
00:54:05.519 --> 00:54:08.320
in church? Which I think, whether church or school or something,

813
00:54:08.320 --> 00:54:11.480
we've all probably thrown eggs at some point, usually like

814
00:54:11.519 --> 00:54:13.679
the catch thing, like you've throw an egg and you

815
00:54:13.719 --> 00:54:16.480
step up foot, you know, take one step back, throw

816
00:54:16.519 --> 00:54:18.920
the egg back and forth again, take another step and

817
00:54:19.039 --> 00:54:22.000
see how many times or how depth far? How are you?

818
00:54:22.719 --> 00:54:23.000
Yeah?

819
00:54:24.599 --> 00:54:28.239
Well, they would do with these act something very similar.

820
00:54:28.400 --> 00:54:30.840
The priest would actually throw a hard boiled egg to

821
00:54:30.920 --> 00:54:33.920
one of the choir boys, and he would continue to

822
00:54:33.920 --> 00:54:36.519
toss it to his peers, and whoever was holding the

823
00:54:36.719 --> 00:54:39.960
egg when the clock struck twelve was the winner and

824
00:54:40.000 --> 00:54:49.480
got to keep the egg. Let's see if there's any

825
00:54:49.559 --> 00:54:55.800
other good ones here. Well, Easter is the second biggest

826
00:54:55.800 --> 00:55:02.800
candy coated summer holiday, next to Halloween. I wou Valentine's Day? Nope,

827
00:55:03.800 --> 00:55:09.159
that's probably strawberries that could be. And the last one

828
00:55:09.159 --> 00:55:15.639
I think I'm gonna do is let's see here, I'm

829
00:55:15.639 --> 00:55:18.679
gonna do two more so. One is it used to

830
00:55:18.719 --> 00:55:21.760
take more than a day to make a peep, And

831
00:55:21.800 --> 00:55:24.920
in fact, it would take approximately twenty seven hours to

832
00:55:24.960 --> 00:55:27.840
be precise. That was back in nineteen fifty three when

833
00:55:27.880 --> 00:55:30.920
each candy was handmade with the pastry tube. But of

834
00:55:30.960 --> 00:55:33.519
course today they have machines and it only takes about

835
00:55:33.559 --> 00:55:37.239
six minutes. Can you imagine twenty seven hours to six

836
00:55:37.280 --> 00:55:42.320
minutes for a peep? That's crazy. And finally, all of

837
00:55:42.360 --> 00:55:44.840
you chying man, whether or not you're one of the

838
00:55:45.039 --> 00:55:48.039
probably many who do this, but number twenty five, most

839
00:55:48.079 --> 00:55:53.199
Americans bite off the ears of a chocolate bunny first, yep,

840
00:55:53.519 --> 00:55:57.480
So name hands up all around? How else to do that?

841
00:55:57.519 --> 00:55:59.719
To animal crackers? Bite the legs of our fair start

842
00:55:59.719 --> 00:56:03.800
the ear that and.

843
00:56:05.840 --> 00:56:10.320
I would wonder why we do that, Like I would say,

844
00:56:10.320 --> 00:56:11.760
the majority of people do.

845
00:56:12.079 --> 00:56:15.079
Yeah, I don't know. I mean I feel like I mean,

846
00:56:15.079 --> 00:56:16.440
for me, I feel like it's just because you get

847
00:56:16.440 --> 00:56:19.400
this balky piece of chocolate and you get this thinner

848
00:56:19.440 --> 00:56:22.480
piece of chocolate, So yeah, I pop that sucker off.

849
00:56:22.559 --> 00:56:24.719
But that's a.

850
00:56:24.760 --> 00:56:28.280
Good possibility and probably the easiest way so that you're

851
00:56:28.280 --> 00:56:30.440
not getting chocolate on your face trying to shove the

852
00:56:30.480 --> 00:56:32.360
bigger portions in your face.

853
00:56:32.119 --> 00:56:33.840
Too as possible.

854
00:56:36.760 --> 00:56:40.280
All right, So I want to say, say, this I

855
00:56:40.599 --> 00:56:43.400
usually say, you know, make sure you like share, subscribe

856
00:56:43.599 --> 00:56:48.079
wherever you listen. We're really trying to grow our YouTube channel,

857
00:56:48.119 --> 00:56:50.639
so if you watch us on YouTube, please make sure

858
00:56:50.719 --> 00:56:54.159
you like share, subscribe. Join us in our chat off

859
00:56:54.199 --> 00:56:59.400
to my left. It would be your right as you're watching.

860
00:57:03.360 --> 00:57:05.519
And comment. If you don't get into.

861
00:57:05.480 --> 00:57:09.320
Chat, we would love to hear your thoughts on anything

862
00:57:09.320 --> 00:57:13.320
that we're talking about. So the question for you guys

863
00:57:13.639 --> 00:57:16.480
to answer for this video is in the comments. Tell

864
00:57:16.559 --> 00:57:22.000
us what is the Easter tradition that you practice the

865
00:57:22.039 --> 00:57:28.039
most or enjoy the most. But also make sure you're

866
00:57:28.079 --> 00:57:32.000
checking out all the shows on United Public Radio Network

867
00:57:32.360 --> 00:57:35.559
because there's so so, so many, and there's actually more

868
00:57:35.599 --> 00:57:39.519
coming on as well. There'll be actually a show before

869
00:57:39.559 --> 00:57:46.639
ours that very very soon. And yeah, so again, this

870
00:57:46.719 --> 00:57:49.360
has been a pre recorded show on one of seven

871
00:57:49.400 --> 00:57:54.360
point seven New Orleans and United Public Radio Network. Happy

872
00:57:54.440 --> 00:57:59.000
Easter to everybody that practices it. Whatever you practice, I

873
00:57:59.039 --> 00:58:02.280
hope you're enjoying the day and enjoying it with family

874
00:58:02.320 --> 00:58:06.239
and friends until next week where you'll find this same time,

875
00:58:06.960 --> 00:58:10.360
same channel. My name is Justin and I'm Eric Peace