Hello everyone
Day 9 of BEDA, I am currently packing to go visit my family, four hours away from where I live. It is currently 10 pm and I am still packing, I am such a last minute person.
On Friday I am taking a four hour trip to visit my parents in light of this easter four day long weekend. Well-deserve I might add, this week has been tiring.
How will you celebrate easter, if you celebrate it?
I know it is traditionally a religious day where a lot of people go to church. As for myself I do not. So easter is mainly about chocolate, I need my chocolates of course. Also, the main easter tradition in my family is to go to the sugar shack.
I am originally from Quebec and churches aren't so popular anymore, not many people are so religious or practicing by going to mass. In fact, we often joke that during easter you need to reserve a year in advance for the sugar shack and churches parking lots are completely empty.
For those of you who would not know what the sugar bush is, i will explain. Basically it consist of a restaurant, a shack in the wood where you eat traditional quebec meals and drown everything in maple syrup.
I know that doesn't sound that healthy or good for your weight that is why we usually only go once a year. My favourite thing at the sugar shack is the taffy on snow. That is MY reason to go.
Some sugar shacks have live music as well.
I decided to do some research about the history of easter, instead of just believing blindly that it is only about jesus' resurrection and here is what I found out.
Did you know?
There are a lot of pagan elements in the modern easter celebration. The word "easter" derives from Eostre, the anglo-saxon lunar goddess. Eostre feast day was held on the first full moon following the vernal equinox and a sam calculation is used for easter among western christians.
Two of Eostre's most important symbols are the hare and the egg. The hare being a symbol of fertility and because ancient people saw a hare in the full moon. The egg, which symbolizes the growing possibility of new life as in spring time, trees and flowers bloom, usually animals have newborns as well. Curiously those are symbols that christianity hasn't really incorporated in its own mythology preferring to make it about the resurrection of christ.
American christians continue to celebrate easter as a religious holiday but public references of easter almost never includes religious elements.
Christians and non-christians alike celebrate easter in non-christians ways: chocolate and other forms of easter candy, easter egg, easter egg hunts and the famous easter bunny. Most cultural references include these elements which are pagan in origin and have become commercialized, sometimes sadly a little too commercialized.
I am one to be curious and wanting to know the truth and therefore always try to do research before accepting something that is told or taught as being the truth. I would rather find out the truth for myself.
So basically for myself, my easter celebration is associated to going to the sugar shack and spending time with family as it has been my tradition in my family for years.
I hope you will all have a great easter weekend, however you celebrate it.
That is about it for this 9th day of BEDA.
See you tomorrow.
DID YOU KNOW?
Giant Pandas generally eat bamboo--for breakfast, lunch, and dinner! In their native habitat, more than twenty varieties of bamboo are available, so they do have some variety in their bamboo diet. Giant Pandas DO eat a few other edibles on occasion, such as mushrooms, crocuses--even fish and rodents.
And nothing could be cuter than watching a Giant Panda consume a bamboo stalk! Pandas sit with feet outstretched in front of them, bamboo in their hands, eating.
- C. Herold
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